Abstract
The STAR Collaboration presents for the first time two-dimensional di-hadron correlations with identified leading hadrons in 200 GeV central Au. +. Au and minimum-bias d. +. Au collisions to explore hadronization mechanisms in the quark gluon plasma. The enhancement of the jet-like yield for leading pions in Au. +. Au data with respect to the d. +. Au reference and the absence of such an enhancement for leading non-pions (protons and kaons) are discussed within the context of a quark recombination scenario. The correlated yield at large angles, specifically in the ridge region, is found to be significantly higher for leading non-pions than pions. The consistencies of the constituent quark scaling, azimuthal harmonic model and a mini-jet modification model description of the data are tested, providing further constraints on hadronization.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 233-240 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | Physics Letters B |
Volume | 751 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Dec 17 2015 |
Externally published | Yes |
Funding
We thank the RHIC Operations Group and RCF at BNL, the NERSC Center at LBNL, the KISTI Center in Korea, and the Open Science Grid consortium for providing resources and support. This work was supported in part by the Offices of Nuclear Physics within the U.S. DOE Office of Science , the U.S. NSF , the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation , NSFC , CAS , MOST and MOE of China, the National Research Foundation of Korea , GACR and MSMT of the Czech Republic, FIAS of Germany, DAE , DST , and UGC of India, the National Science Centre of Poland, National Research Foundation , the Ministry of Science, Education and Sports of the Republic of Croatia, and RosAtom of Russia.
Funders | Funder number |
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RosAtom of Russia | |
National Science Foundation | 1206009, 1505716 |
Office of Science | |
Nuclear Physics | |
National Research Foundation | |
Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology, India | |
University Grants Commission | |
Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India | |
National Natural Science Foundation of China | |
Ministerstvo Školství, Mládeže a Tělovýchovy | |
Grantová Agentura České Republiky | |
Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China | |
Chinese Academy of Sciences | |
Ministarstvo Obrazovanja, Znanosti i Sporta | |
Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation | |
National Research Foundation of Korea | |
Narodowe Centrum Nauki | |
Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan |