Evolution of the Nuclear Modification Factors with Rapidity and Centrality inCollisions at
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- 10 December 2004
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 93 (24) , 242303
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.93.242303
Abstract
We report on a study of the transverse momentum dependence of nuclear modification factors for charged hadrons produced in collisions at , as a function of collision centrality and of the pseudorapidity (, 1, 2.2, 3.2) of the produced hadrons. We find a significant and systematic decrease of with increasing rapidity. The midrapidity enhancement and the forward rapidity suppression are more pronounced in central collisions relative to peripheral collisions. These results are relevant to the study of the possible onset of gluon saturation at energies reached at BNL RHIC.
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