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Nuclear modification factors of strange mesons measured by PHENIX
by A. Berdnikov, Ya. Berdnikov, D. Kotov, D. Larionova, Iu. Mitrankov, M. Mitrankova, V. Borisov
Submission summary
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| Academic field: |
Physics |
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- High-Energy Physics - Experiment
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| Approach: |
Experimental |
Abstract
The question of the existence and properties of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) nowadays are the subject of detailed systematic study. Particles that contain strange quarks can be considered as a great tool to study flavor dependence of the parton energy loss in the QGP and strangeness enhancement. In this paper, we present the most recent PHENIX results on nuclear modification factors of $K^{\pm}$, $K^{*0}$, $\phi$ mesons as a function of $p_T$ and the number of participants in $p$+$p$, $p$+Al, $^3$He+Au, Cu+Cu, Cu+Au, Au+Au, and U+U collisions at top RHIC energies. The light hadron production at high-$p_T$ is apparently independent on quark content. The coalescence mechanism might be an answer for strangeness and baryon enhancement at moderate $p_T$.
Anonymous on 2022-01-03 [id 2059]
Dear author,
in the attached file I indicated some stylish comments/corrections.
I was wondering, whether the results are presented on behalf of the PHENIX collaboration. If yes, I guess it would be good to state this.
There is one sentence in the intro " ... such QGP characteristic as minimal conditions sufficient for its formation is still under investigation in a broad set of geometry controlled small collision systems" which I did not understand... perhaps some words or verbs are missing ?
The other comments are of minor importance.
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