Abstract
Within the next-to-leading order (NLO) perturbative QCD (pQCD) parton model, suppression of away-side hadron spectra associated with a high p T photon due to parton energy loss is shown to provide a complete tomographic picture of the dense matter formed in high-energy heavy-ion collisions at RHIC. Dictated by the shape of the γ-triggered jet spectrum in NLO pQCD, hadron spectra at large z T = p T h / p T γ ≳ 1 are more susceptible to parton energy loss and therefore are dominated by surface emission of γ-triggered jets, whereas small z T hadrons mainly come from fragmentation of jets with reduced energy from volume emission. These lead to different centrality dependence of the hadron suppression in different regions of z T .
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