From the ISR to RHIC--measurements of hard-scattering and jets using inclusive single particle production and 2-particle correlations

Abstract

Hard scattering in p-p collisions, discovered at the CERN ISR in 1972 by the method of leading particles, proved that the partons of Deeply Inelastic Scattering strongly interacted with each other. Further ISR measurements utilizing inclusive single or pairs of hadrons established that high pT particles are produced from states with two roughly back-to-back jets which are the result of scattering of constituents of the nucleons as desribed by Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), which was developed during the course of these measurements. These techniques, which are the only practical method to study hard-scattering and jet phenomena in Au+Au central collisions at RHIC energies, are reviewed, as an introduction to present RHIC measurements.

To appear in the proceedings of the workshop on Correlations and Fluctuations in Relativistic Nuclear Collisions, MIT, Cambridge, MA, April 21-23, 2005, 10 pages, 9 figures, Journal of Physics: Conference Proceedings

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