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Phys Rev Lett. 2008 Jun 20;100(24):242301. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.242301. Epub 2008 Jun 19.

Suppression of high-p{T} neutral pion production in central Pb+Pb collisions at sqrt[S{NN}]=17.3 GeV relative to p+C and p+Pb collisions.

Physical review letters

M M Aggarwal, Z Ahammed, A L S Angelis, V Antonenko, V Arefiev, V Astakhov, V Avdeitchikov, T C Awes, P V K S Baba, S K Badyal, S Bathe, B Batiounia, C Baumann, T Bernier, K B Bhalla, V S Bhatia, C Blume, D Bucher, H Büsching, L Carlén, S Chattopadhyay, M P Decowski, H Delagrange, P Donni, M R Dutta Majumdar, K El Chenawi, A K Dubey, K Enosawa, S Fokin, V Frolov, M S Ganti, S Garpman, O Gavrishchuk, F J M Geurts, T K Ghosh, R Glasow, B Guskov, H A Gustafsson, H H Gutbrod, I Hrivnacova, M Ippolitov, H Kalechofsky, R Kamermans, K Karadjev, K Karpio, B W Kolb, I Kosarev, I Koutcheryaev, A Kugler, P Kulinich, M Kurata, A Lebedev, H Löhner, L Luquin, D P Mahapatra, V Manko, M Martin, G Martínez, A Maximov, Y Miake, G C Mishra, B Mohanty, M-J Mora, D Morrison, T Mukhanova, D S Mukhopadhyay, H Naef, B K Nandi, S K Nayak, T K Nayak, A Nianine, V Nikitine, S Nikolaev, P Nilsson, S Nishimura, P Nomokonov, J Nystrand, A Oskarsson, I Otterlund, S Pavliouk, T Peitzmann, D Peressounko, V Petracek, S C Phatak, W Pinganaud, F Plasil, M L Purschke, J Rak, M Rammler, R Raniwala, S Raniwala, N K Rao, F Retiere, K Reygers, G Roland, L Rosselet, I Roufanov, C Roy, J M Rubio, S S Sambyal, R Santo, S Sato, H Schlagheck, H-R Schmidt, Y Schutz, G Shabratova, T H Shah, I Sibiriak, T Siemiarczuk, D Silvermyr, B C Sinha, N Slavine, K Söderström, G Sood, S P Sørensen, P Stankus, G Stefanek, P Steinberg, E Stenlund, M Sumbera, T Svensson, A Tsvetkov, L Tykarski, E C V D Pijll, N V Eijndhoven, G J V Nieuwenhuizen, A Vinogradov, Y P Viyogi, A Vodopianov, S Vörös, B Wysłouch, G R Young,

Affiliations

  1. University of Panjab, Chandigarh 160014, India.

PMID: 18643578 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.242301

Abstract

Neutral pion transverse momentum spectra were measured in p+C and p+Pb collisions at sqrt[S{NN}]=17.4 GeV at midrapidity (2.3 less than or approximately equal eta{lab} less than or approximately equal 3.0) over the range 0.7 less than or approximately equal p{T} less than or approximately equal 3.5 GeV/c. The spectra are compared to pi{0} spectra measured in Pb+Pb collisions at sqrt[S{NN}]=17.3 GeV in the same experiment. For a wide range of Pb+Pb centralities (N{part} less than or approximately equal 300), the yield of pi{0}'s with p{T} greater than or approximately equal 2 GeV/c is larger than or consistent with the p+C or p+Pb yields scaled with the number of nucleon-nucleon collisions (N{coll}), while for central Pb+Pb collisions with N{part}greater than or approximately equal 350, the pi{0} yield is suppressed.

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