Quark Matter 2005 Conference   Quark Matter 2005 Conference


Nuclear modification factor for identified hadrons at forward rapidity in Au+Au reactions at 200 GeV

Radoslaw H. Karabowicz

Collaboration: BRAHMS

Abstract:

The observed suppression of hadrons at high $p_{\rm T}$ in $Au+Au$ collisions relative to production in $p+p$ may be due to several in-medium effects (e.g. jet-quenching, quark recombination). Studying the effect for identified hadrons shows that suppression exists for pions, but vanishes for protons. BRAHMS has collected a large sample of data from $Au+Au$ and $p+p$ collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = \unit[200]{GeV}$ at forward rapidities utilizing its unique setup to cover $p_{\rm T}$ range up to $\unit[4]{GeV/c}$. Spectra in $p_{\rm T}$ at forward rapidities ($y \approx 3.2$) for pions, kaons, protons and their antiparticles shall be presented in this talk. Nuclear modification factor ($R_{AuAu}$) will also be shown as a function of rapidity and centrality. Discussion of the results will be made, together with preliminary results from $Cu+Cu$ collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = \unit[200]{GeV}$.


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