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Author(s) |
Adare, A.; Afanasiev, S.; Aidala, C.; Choudhury, R. K.; Dutta, D.; Mohanty, A. K.; Shukla, P.; and others |
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Physical Review-C, 2011. Vol. 84 (4): pp. 044902.1-044902.11 |
ABSTRACT
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The PHENIX experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider has measured ω meson production via leptonic and hadronic decay channels in p + p, d +Au, Cu+Cu, and Au+Au collisions at √sNN = 200 GeV. The invariant transverse momentum spectra measured in different decay modes give consistent results.Measurements in the hadronic decay channel in Cu+Cu and Au+Au collisions show that ω production has a suppression pattern at high transverse momentum, similar to that of π0 and η in central collisions, but no suppression is observed in peripheral collisions. The nuclear modification factors, RAA, are consistent in Cu+Cu and Au+Au collisions at similar numbers of participant nucleons. |
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