High-pT tomography of d+Au and Au+Au at SPS, RHIC, and LHC -: art. no. 252301

The interplay of nuclear effects on the p(T)>2 GeV inclusive hadron spectra in d+Au and Au+Au reactions at roots(NN)=17, 200, and 5500 GeV is compared to leading order perturbative QCD calculations for elementary p+p ((p) over bar +p) collisions. The competition between nuclear shadowing, Cronin effect, and jet energy loss due to medium-induced gluon radiation is predicted to lead to a striking energy dependence of the nuclear suppression/enhancement pattern in A+A reactions. We show that future d+Au data can be used to disentangle the initial and final state effects.