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Measurement of charged hadrons in central collisions at RHIC using PHENIX experiment, observing suppression compared to peripheral collisions and historical enhancements, potentially indicating a new phenomenon.
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High pT at RHIC • Measured in PHENIX for • Charged hadrons • p0’s (with both PgGl and PbSc calorimeters) • Observe • Peripheral collisions: Good agreement with scaled p-p reference • Central collisions: Clear deficit with respect to scaled reference
Is It New? • Historically, enhancements have been seen in per-nucleon yields of high pT hadrons from proton-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus collisions: “Cronin effect” • This is the first observation of a suppression