Production of
and
mesons in Cu+Au collisions at
=200 GeV
=200GeVでの銅-金原子核衝突における
および
中間子生成
Aidala, C.*; 長谷川 勝一
; 今井 憲一; 永宮 正治*; 佐甲 博之
; 佐藤 進
; 谷田 聖
; PHENIX Collaboration*; 他397名*
Aidala, C.*; Hasegawa, Shoichi; Imai, Kenichi; Nagamiya, Shoji*; Sako, Hiroyuki; Sato, Susumu; Tanida, Kiyoshi; PHENIX Collaboration*; 397 of others*
Production of
and
mesons has been measured at midrapidity in Cu
Au collisions at
=200 GeV. Measurements were performed in
decay channel in the 1(2)-20 GeV/
transverse momentum range. A strong suppression is observed for
and
meson production at high transverse momentum in central Cu
Au collisions relative to the 

results scaled by the number of nucleon-nucleon collisions. In central collisions the suppression is similar to Au
Au with comparable nuclear overlap. The
ratio measured as a function of transverse momentum is consistent with
-scaling parameterization down to
2 GeV/
, its asymptotic value is constant and consistent with Au
Au and 

and does not show any significant dependence on collision centrality. Similar results were obtained in hadron-hadron, hadron-nucleus, and nucleus-nucleus collisions as well as in
collisions in a range of collision energies
3-1800 GeV. This suggests that the quark-gluon-plasma medium produced in Cu
Cu collisions either does not affect the jet fragmentation into light mesons or it affects the
and
the same way.