On the Nuclear Modification Factor at RHIC and LHC

Abstract

We show that pQCD factorization incorporated with pre-haronization energy-loss effect naturally leads to flatness of the nuclear modification factor R_{AA} for produced hadrons at high transverse momentum p_T. We consider two possible scenarios for the pre-hadronization: In scenario 1, the produced gluon propagates through dense QCD medium and loses energy. In scenario 2, all gluons first decay to quark-antiquark pairs and then each pair loses energy as propagating through the medium. We show that the estimates of the energy-loss in these two different models lead to very close values and is able to explain the suppression of high-p_T hadrons in nucleus-nucleus collisions at RHIC. We show that the onset of the flatness of R_{AA} for the produced hadron in central collisions at midrapidity is about p_T\approx 15 and 25 GeV at RHIC and the LHC energies, respectively. We show that the smallness (R_{AA}<0.5) and the high-p_T flatness of R_{AA} obtained from the k_T factorization supplemented with the Balitsky-Kovchegov (BK) equation is rather generic and it does not strongly depend on the details of the BK solutions. We show that energy-loss effect reduces the nuclear modification factor obtained from the k_T factorization about 30÷50% at moderate p_T.

14 pages, 10 figures; v2: results unchanged, more discussion and references added. The version to appear in Nucl. Phys. A

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