Ju n 20 08 Suppression of High-p T Neutral Pion Production in Central Pb + Pb Collisions at √ s NN = 17 . 3 GeV Relative to p + C and p + Pb Collisions

M.M. Aggarwal, Z. Ahammed, A.L.S. Angelis, V. Antonenko, V. Arefiev, V. Astakhov, V. Avdeitchikov, T.C. Awes, P.V.K.S. Baba, S.K. Badyal, S. Bathe, B. Batiounia, C. Baumann, T. Bernier, K.B. Bhalla, V.S. Bhatia, C. Blume, D. Bucher, H. Büsching, L. Carlén, S. Chattopadhyay, M.P. Decowski, H. Delagrange, P. Donni, M.R. Dutta Majumdar, K. El Chenawi, A.K. Dubey, K. Enosawa, S. Fokin, V. Frolov, M.S. Ganti, S. Garpman, O. Gavrishchuk, F.J.M. Geurts, T.K. Ghosh, R. Glasow, B. Guskov, H. Å.Gustafsson, H. H.Gutbrod, I. Hrivnacova, M. Ippolitov, H. Kalechofsky, R. Kamermans, K. Karadjev, K. Karpio, B. W. Kolb, I. Kosarev, I. Koutcheryaev, A. Kugler, P. Kulinich, M. Kurata, A. Lebedev, H. Löhner, L. Luquin, D.P. Mahapatra, V. Manko, M. Martin, G. Mart́ınez, A. Maximov, Y. Miake, G.C. Mishra, B. Mohanty, M.-J. Mora, D. Morrison, T. Mukhanova, D. S. Mukhopadhyay, H. Naef, B. K. Nandi, S. K. Nayak, T. K. Nayak, A. Nianine, V. Nikitine, S. Nikolaev, P. Nilsson, S. Nishimura, P. Nomokonov, J. Nystrand, A. Oskarsson, I. Otterlund, S. Pavliouk, T. Peitzmann, D. Peressounko, V. Petracek, S.C. Phatak, W. Pinganaud, F. Plasil, M.L. Purschke, J. Rak, M. Rammler, R. Raniwala, S. Raniwala, N.K. Rao, F. Retiere, K. Reygers, G. Roland, L. Rosselet, I. Roufanov, C. Roy, J.M. Rubio, S.S. Sambyal, R. Santo, S. Sato, H. Schlagheck, H.-R. Schmidt, Y. Schutz, G. Shabratova, T.H. Shah, I. Sibiriak, T. Siemiarczuk, D. Silvermyr, B.C. Sinha, N. Slavine, K. Söderström, G. Sood, S.P. Sørensen, P. Stankus, G. Stefanek, P. Steinberg, E. Stenlund, M. Sumbera, T. Svensson, A. Tsvetkov, L. Tykarski, E.C.v.d. Pijll, N.v. Eijndhoven, G.J.v. Nieuwenhuizen, A. Vinogradov, Y.P. Viyogi, A. Vodopianov, S. Vörös, B. Wys louch, G.R. Young 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 (WA98 Collaboration) 21 University of Panjab, Chandigarh 160014, India 32 Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Calcutta 700064, India 43 University of Geneva, CH-1211 Geneva 4,Switzerland 54 RRC “Kurchatov Institute”, RU-123182 Moscow 65 Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, RU-141980 Dubna, Russia 76 Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6372, USA 87 University of Jammu, Jammu 180001, India 98 University of Münster, D-48149 Münster, Germany 109 SUBATECH, Ecole des Mines, Nantes, France 1110 University of Rajasthan, Jaipur 302004, Rajasthan, India 1211 University of Lund, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden 1312 MIT Cambridge, MA 02139 1413 Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar 751005, India 1514 University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305, Japan 1615 Universiteit Utrecht/NIKHEF, NL-3508 TA Utrecht, The Netherlands 1716 KVI, University of Groningen, NL-9747 AA Groningen, The Netherlands 1817 Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung (GSI), D-64220 Darmstadt, Germany 1918 Nuclear Physics Institute, CZ-250 68 Rez, Czech Rep. 2019 Institute for Nuclear Studies, 00-681 Warsaw, Poland 2120 University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37966, USA Deceased (Dated: May 17, 2021)