Tetsufumi Hirano, Yasushi Nara
Physical Review C - Nuclear Physics 69(3) 034908-1 2004年3月 査読有り
We investigate the transverse dynamics in Au+Au collisions at √s NN=200 GeV by emphasis upon the interplay between soft and hard components through pT dependences of particle spectra, ratios of yields, suppression factors, and elliptic flow for identified hadrons. From hydrodynamics combined with traversing minijets which go through jet quenching in the hot medium, we calculate interactions of hard jets with the soft hydrodynamic components. It is shown by the explicit dynamical calculations that the hydrodynamic radial flow and the jet quenching of hard jets are the keys to understand the differences among the hadron spectra for pions, kaons, and protons. This leads to the natural interpretation for Np/N π ∼ 1, RAA ≳ 1 for protons, and v 2p>
v2π recently observed in the intermediate transverse momentum region at Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider.