Hard Probes with the STAR Experiment
Dunlop, J. C. · Collaboration, STAR
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Recent results on the use of hard probes in heavy ion collisions by the STAR experiment at RHIC are reviewed. The increased statistical reach from RHIC run 4 and utilization of the full capabilities of the STAR experiment have led to a qualitative improvement in these results. Light hadrons have been identified out to transverse momenta (pₜ) of 12 GeV/c, allowing for clear identification of the dominant processes governing particle production in different pₜ windows. Clean signatures of dijets have been seen even in central Au+Au collisions. Nuclear modification factors for non-photonic electrons, predominantly from the decay of heavy-flavored hadrons, have also been measured out to pₜ of 8 GeV/c. For pₜ > 6 GeV/c, inclusive spectra of all charged hadrons, including heavy-flavored ones, appear to be suppressed equally strongly (by a factor of four to five) in central Au+Au collisions relative to p+p collisions; interestingly enough, the probability of finding a hadron from a dijet partner is suppressed to this same level.
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