https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-009-0879-4
Regular Article - Experimental Physics
Measurement of light mesons at RHIC by the PHENIX experiment
Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, 76100, Israel
* e-mail: maxim.naglis@weizmann.ac.il
Received:
13
September
2008
Revised:
16
December
2008
Published online:
5
February
2009
The PHENIX experiment at RHIC has measured a variety of light neutral mesons (π 0, K S 0 , η, ω, η ′, φ) via multi-particle decay channels over a wide range of transverse momentum. A review of the recent results on the production rates of light mesons in p + p and their nuclear modification factors in d + Au, Cu + Cu and Au + Au collisions at different energies is presented.
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