Eur. Phys. J. C (2009) 61: 835-840
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

Abstract

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.