Nuclear shadowing and high-pT hadron spectra in relativistic heavy ion collisions

We explore how nuclear modifications to the nucleon parton distributions affect production of high-pT hadrons in heavy ion collisions. We perform a leading order calculation of the high-pT charged pion, kaon, and proton spectra using standard fragmentation functions and shadowing parametrizations. We also consider alternate models of shadowing. Near midrapidity, shadowing is a small effect and cannot explain the large observed suppression of high-pT hadrons. We also consider the isospin difference between protons and nuclei and find that it is also a small effect on high-pT hadron production