η meson production of high-energy nuclear collisions at NLO
The transverse momentum spectrum of η meson in relativistic heavy-ion collisions is studied at the Next-to-Leading Order (NLO) within the perturbative QCD, where the jet quenching effect in the QGP is incorporated with the effectively medium-modified η fragmentation functions using the higher-twist...
| Main Authors: | , , , |
|---|---|
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Elsevier
2015-11-01
|
| Series: | Physics Letters B |
| Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269315007285 |
| Summary: | The transverse momentum spectrum of η meson in relativistic heavy-ion collisions is studied at the Next-to-Leading Order (NLO) within the perturbative QCD, where the jet quenching effect in the QGP is incorporated with the effectively medium-modified η fragmentation functions using the higher-twist approach. We show that the theoretical simulations could give nice descriptions of PHENIX data on η meson in both p+p and central Au + Au collisions at the RHIC, and also provide numerical predictions of η spectra in central Pb + Pb collisions with sNN=2.76 TeV at the LHC. The ratios of η/π0 in p+p and in central Au + Au collisions at 200 GeV are found to overlap in a wide pT region, which matches well the measured ratio η/π0 by PHENIX. We demonstrate that, at the asymptotic region when pT→∞ the ratios of η/π0 in both Au + Au and p+p are almost determined only by quark jets fragmentation and thus approach to the one in e+e− scattering; in addition, the almost identical gluon (quark) contribution fractions to η and to π result in a rather moderate variation of η/π0 distribution at intermediate and high pT region in A+A relative to that in p+p; while a slightly higher η/π0 at small pT in Au + Au can be observed due to larger suppression of gluon contribution fraction to π0 as compared to the one to η. The theoretical prediction for η/π0 at the LHC has also been presented. |
|---|---|
| ISSN: | 0370-2693 1873-2445 |