Distributions of Charged Hadrons Associated with High Transverse Momentum Particles in<mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mml:mi>p</mml:mi><mml:mi>p</mml:mi></mml:math>and<mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mml:mi>Au</mml:mi><mml:mo>+</mml:mo><mml:mi>Au</mml:mi></mml:math>Collisions at<mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mml:msqrt><mml:msub><mml:mi>s</mml:mi><mml:mrow><mml:mi>N</mml:mi><mml:mi>N</mml:mi></mml:mrow></mml:msub></mml:msqrt><mml:mo>=</mml:mo><mml:mn>200</mml:mn><mml:mtext> </mml:mtext><mml:mtext> </mml:mtext><mml:mi>GeV</mml:mi></mml:math>
Abstract
Charged hadrons in $0.15<{p}_{\ensuremath{\perp}}<4\text{ }\text{ }\mathrm{GeV}/c$ associated with particles of ${p}_{\ensuremath{\perp}}^{\mathrm{trig}}>4\text{ }\text{ }\mathrm{GeV}/c$ are reconstructed in $pp$ and $\mathrm{Au}+\mathrm{Au}$ collisions at $\sqrt{{s}_{NN}}=200\text{ }\text{ }\mathrm{GeV}$. The associated multiplicity and ${p}_{\ensuremath{\perp}}$ magnitude sum are found to increase from $pp$ to central $\mathrm{Au}+\mathrm{Au}$ collisions. The associated ${p}_{\ensuremath{\perp}}$ distributions, while similar in shape on the nearside, are significantly softened on the awayside in central $\mathrm{Au}+\mathrm{Au}$ relative to $pp$ and not much harder than that of inclusive hadrons. The results, consistent with jet quenching, suggest that the awayside fragments approach equilibration with the medium traversed.
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