Participant-like scaling behavior of multiplicity and charged hadron spectra in relativistic heavy ion collisions

2011/03/17 by Hollis, R. S., Iordanova, A., Hofman, D. J.
#FOS: Physical sciences #Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1103.3490

Abstract

We present a method for parameterizing the charged particle multiplicity and charged hadron spectra from heavy ion data with a simple, Glauber-inspired, model. The basis of this model is derived from the observation of leading hadrons in pp collisions and the number of interactions calculated by a Glauber model. Singly hit and multiply hit nucleons are treated as different sub-components of the same collision. With this scheme, for fixed sub-component yields, we find that the multiplicity and charged hadron spectra can be reproduced, without the need for large suppression at high-p_T. Suppression is still observed, in the low- to intermediate-p_T region, but this is confined to suppression of surface emission partons. At high-p_T, the suppression disappears entirely, leaving only a possible Cronin-type enhancement. The suppression observed in 200GeV collisions is found to be the same for 62.4GeV data.

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