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Back-to-Back Correlations of Di-hadrons in dAu Collisions at RHIC

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-05-30 v3 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We perform a complete theoretical analysis of the azimuthal angular correlation of two-hadron productions in the forward dAudAu collisions at RHIC in the saturation formalism, and obtain a very good agreement with the experimental data. It is demonstrated that the suppression and broadening of the away side peak provide a unique signal for the onset of the saturation mechanism at small-xx in a large nucleus. We emphasize that future experiments of di-hadron correlations in pApA collisions at both RHIC and LHC, and in eAeA collisions at the planned electron-ion collider, shall provide us with a thorough study and understanding of the strong interaction dynamics in the saturation regime.

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@article{arxiv.1109.1817,
  title  = {Back-to-Back Correlations of Di-hadrons in dAu Collisions at RHIC},
  author = {Anna Stasto and Bo-Wen Xiao and Feng Yuan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1109.1817},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

11 pages and 2 figures;v3 revised and updated