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Photon-hadron jet correlations in p plus p and Au plus Au collisions at s(NN)=200 GeV

Adare, A. ; Afanasiev, S. ; Aidala, C. ; Ajitanand, N. N. ; Akiba, Y. ; Al-Bataineh, H. ; Alexander, J. ; Al-Jamel, A. ; Aoki, K. and Aphecetche, L. , et al. (2009) In Physical Review C (Nuclear Physics) 80(2).
Abstract
We report the observation at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider of suppression of back-to-back correlations in the direct photon+jet channel in Au+Au relative to p+p collisions. Two-particle correlations of direct photon triggers with associated hadrons are obtained by statistical subtraction of the decay photon-hadron (gamma-h) background. The initial momentum of the away-side parton is tightly constrained, because the parton-photon pair exactly balance in momentum at leading order in perturbative quantum chromodynamics, making such correlations a powerful probe of the in-medium parton energy loss. The away-side nuclear suppression factor, I-AA, in central Au+Au collisions, is 0.32 +/- 0.12(stat)+/- 0.09(syst) for hadrons of 3 <... (More)
We report the observation at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider of suppression of back-to-back correlations in the direct photon+jet channel in Au+Au relative to p+p collisions. Two-particle correlations of direct photon triggers with associated hadrons are obtained by statistical subtraction of the decay photon-hadron (gamma-h) background. The initial momentum of the away-side parton is tightly constrained, because the parton-photon pair exactly balance in momentum at leading order in perturbative quantum chromodynamics, making such correlations a powerful probe of the in-medium parton energy loss. The away-side nuclear suppression factor, I-AA, in central Au+Au collisions, is 0.32 +/- 0.12(stat)+/- 0.09(syst) for hadrons of 3 < p(T)(h)< 5 in coincidence with photons of 5 < p(T)(gamma)< 15 GeV/c. The suppression is comparable to that observed for high-p(T) single hadrons and dihadrons. The direct photon associated yields in p+p collisions scale approximately with the momentum balance, z(T)equivalent to p(T)(h)/p(T)(gamma), as expected for a measurement of the away-side parton fragmentation function. We compare to Au+Au collisions for which the momentum balance dependence of the nuclear modification should be sensitive to the path-length dependence of parton energy loss. (Less)
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  issn         = {{0556-2813}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  number       = {{2}},
  publisher    = {{American Physical Society}},
  series       = {{Physical Review C (Nuclear Physics)}},
  title        = {{Photon-hadron jet correlations in p plus p and Au plus Au collisions at s(NN)=200 GeV}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.80.024908}},
  doi          = {{10.1103/PhysRevC.80.024908}},
  volume       = {{80}},
  year         = {{2009}},
}