EMC effect and jet energy loss in relativistic deuteron-nucleus collisions

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dc.creatorCole, B. A.
dc.creatorBarnafoldi, G. G.
dc.creatorLevai, P.
dc.creatorPapp, G.
dc.creatorFai, G.
dc.date2007-02-09
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T07:45:45Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T07:45:45Z
dc.descriptionWe investigate the influence of modified nuclear parton distribution functions (PDFs) on high-pT hadron production at RHIC and LHC energies using a pQCD-improved parton model. For application at RHIC, we focus on the possible contribution of the EMC modification of the nuclear PDFs in the x > 0.3 region to the observed suppression of pi0 production at pT > 10 GeV/c in dAu collisions. We study three different parameterizations of the nuclear PDF modifications and find that they give consistent results for R_dAu(pT) for neutral pions in the region 10 GeV/c < pT < 20 GeV/c. We find that the EMC suppression of the parton distributions in the Au nucleus does not strongly influence the R_dAu for pi0 in the pT region where the suppression is observed. Using the HKN parameterization, we evaluate systematic errors in the theoretical R_dAu(pT) resulting from uncertainties in the nuclear PDFs. The measured nuclear modification factor is inconsistent with the pQCD model result for pT > 10 GeV/c even when the systematic uncertainties in the nuclear PDFs are accounted for. The inclusion of a small final-state energy loss can reduce the discrepancy with the data, but we cannot perfectly reproduce the pT dependence of the measured R_dAu(pT). For the LHC, we find that shadowing of the nuclear PDFs produces a large suppression in the yield of hadrons with pT < 100 GeV/c in p(d)A collisions.
dc.description4 pages, 4 figures
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0702101
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0702101
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/123634
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenology
dc.titleEMC effect and jet energy loss in relativistic deuteron-nucleus collisions
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