Deciphering the properties of the medium produced in heavy ion collisions at RHIC by a pQCD analysis of quenched large p⊥ π 0 spectra

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2006, Issue 9, 2006, Pages

  Baier, Rudolf ^a   Schiff, Dominique ^b  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

Author keywords

Jets; QCD

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749386598     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2006/09/059     Document Type: Article

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