arXiv:nucl-th/0405064·v1·Nuclear Theory
Can hadronic rescattering explain the "jet quenching" at RHIC?
David Hardtke🇺🇸 · Thomas J. Humanic🇺🇸
Abstract
Recent RHIC data have shown novel nuclear modifications of moderate to high pt particle production in central Au+Au collisions, including a suppression of hadron production and a disappearance of back-to-back hadron pairs. In this paper, we investigate whether final-state hadronic interactions of the jet fragments can reproduce the RHIC data. We find that hadronic rescattering can account for the disappearance of back-to-back hadron pairs, but cannot reproduce other features of the RHIC data.
Comments: 6 pages, 6 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. C