Discovery of Jet Quenching at RHIC and the Opacity of the Produced Gluon Plasma
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P. Lévai, G. Papp, G. Fai, M. Gyulassy, G.G. Barnaföldi, I. Vitev and Y. Zhang a HAS KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics, PO Box 49, Budapest 1525, Hungary b HAS Research Group for Theoretical Physics, Eötvös University, Pázmány P. 1/A, Budapest 1117, Hungary c Physics Department, Kent State University, Kent OH 44242, USA d Physics Department, Columbia University, 538 West 120th Street, New York, NY 10027, USA
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