https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2016-16289-4
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Nuclear modification factor using Tsallis non-extensive statistics
1
Discipline of Physics, School of Basic Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Indore, M.P.-453552, Simrol, India
2
UCT-CERN Research Centre and Department of Physics, University of Cape Town, 7701, Rondebosch, South Africa
* e-mail: Raghunath.Sahoo@cern.ch
Received:
23
June
2016
Accepted:
20
July
2016
Published online:
21
September
2016
The nuclear modification factor is derived using Tsallis non-extensive statistics in relaxation time approximation. The variation of the nuclear modification factor with transverse momentum for different values of the non-extensive parameter, q, is also observed. The experimental data from RHIC and LHC are analysed in the framework of Tsallis non-extensive statistics in a relaxation time approximation. It is shown that the proposed approach explains the 
of all particles over a wide range of transverse momentum but does not seem to describe the rise in at very high transverse momenta.
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