Di-hadron correlations with identified leading hadrons in 200 GeV Au + Au and d + Au collisions at STAR

Collaboration
Oct 13, 2014
8 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Lett.B 751 (2015) 233-240
  • Published: Dec 17, 2015
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Abstract: (Elsevier)
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.
  • dihadron: correlation
  • quark: recombination
  • quark gluon: plasma
  • quark: constituent
  • hadronization
  • STAR
  • correlation: wide-angle
  • scaling
  • heavy ion: scattering
  • deuteron