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View SchemaCan we distinguish energy loss from hadron absoprtion?
| Authors | Alberto Accardi |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | nucl-th/0510090 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/nucl-th/0510090 |
| Journal | Acta Phys.Hung. A27 (2006) 189-192 |
Abstract
Knowing whether a hadron is formed inside or outside the nuclear medium is very important for correctly interpreting jet quenching in heavy-ion collisions. The cleanest experimental environment to study the space-time evolution of hadronization is semi-inclusive DIS on nuclear targets. Two frameworks are presently competing to explain the observed attenuation of hadron production: quark energy loss, with hadron formation outside the nucleus, and nuclear absorption with hadronization starting inside the nucleus. I demonstrate that the observed approximate A^(2/3) scaling of experimental data cannot conclusively establish the correctness of either energy loss or absorption.
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