[Brahms-l] 62 GeV comments from XNWang

From: Flemming Videbaek <videbaek@rcf2.rhic.bnl.gov>
Date: Wed May 05 2004 - 08:30:26 EDT
fyi
Unfortunately I cannot mail the figure from here/


Dear Gunther and other Phobos friends,


I heard there will be a special seminar by PHOBOS to discuss the results
of
62 GeV run. Unfortunately, I could not find any information about the talk
or any web cast. So let me give you some results of my calculation. I am
still writing it up.


In Fig. 7 of nucl-th/0307036 I have calculated the energy dependence of
R_AA(ch) at pt=4 GeV, assuming the parton energy loss is linearly
proportional to the measured dN/d\eta and the lifetime of the dense matter
is independent of the energy and larger than the system size. For 62 GeV,
R_AA is about 0.6 at pt=4 GeV for charged hadrons.

Here attached you can find R_AA as a function of pt at 200, 62 and 17 GeV.
The solid lines are for charged hadrons and dashed lines for pion^0. There
are two features of the R_AA at 62 GeV:

(1)The difference between charged hadron and pion^0 is again due to
coalescence effect which extend to higher pt than at 200 GeV.
(2)R_AA at 62 GeV, decreases with pt and approaches to the value at 200
GeV
collisions at high pt>7 GeV.

These two features are both caused by the steeper pt spectra at 62 GeV
than
at 200 GeV. At LHC energies, the R_AA increases with pt as Ivan has shown
before, because the spectra there are much flatter.


My warning at this time is that if you only have a limit range of pt<4
GeV,
you will see much less suppression of charged hadrons, partly because of
smaller energy loss and partly because of baryon/coalescence effect. This
effect will only go away at higher pt. If one looks at back-to-back
correlation and find the suppression is about the same as in 200 GeV.



The upper red lines, I changed the lifetime of the dense matter to be 4
fm,
less than the transverse size of the medium, to demonstrate the sensitive.
This, of course, will give less suppression.

The blues lines are for SPS energy, with lifetime 0-1 fm. The data there
can
only accommodate a dense matter with very short lifetime.



I hope to see your paper on the archive soon.


Xin-Nian






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Nuclear Science Division, MS 70R0319
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