Production of omega mesons in p plus p, d plus Au, Cu plus Cu, and Au plus Au collisions at root s(NN)=200 GeV

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2011-10-07
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Adare, Andrew
Belikov, Sergey
Constantin, Paul
Dion, Alan
Grau, Nathan
Hill, John
Kempel, Todd
Lajoie, John
Lebedev, Alexandre
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Ogilvie, Craig
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The PHENIX experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider has measured omega meson production via leptonic and hadronic decay channels in p + p, d + Au, Cu+ Cu, and Au + Au collisions at root s(NN) = 200 GeV. The invariant transverse momentum spectra measured in different decay modes give consistent results. Measurements in the hadronic decay channel in Cu Cu and Au + Au collisions show that. production has a suppression pattern at high transverse momentum, similar to that of pi(0) and eta in central collisions, but no suppression is observed in peripheral collisions. The nuclear modification factors, R-AA, are consistent in Cu + Cu and Au + Au collisions at similar numbers of participant nucleons.

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This is an article from Physical Review C 84 (2011): 044902-1, doi:10.1103/PhysRevC.84.044902. Posted with permission.

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