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Cold nuclear matter physics at forward rapidities from d+Au collisions in PHENIX

Nuclear Experiment 2015-05-30 v1

Abstract

We present measurements by the PHENIX experiment at RHIC of di-hadron pair production in \dAu collisions where the particles in the pair are varied across a wide range of pseudorapidity, out to η=3.8\eta = 3.8. With di-hadrons, varying the pTp_T and rapidity of the particles in the di-hadron pair allows studying any effects as a function of partonic xx in the nucleus. These di-hadron measurements might probe down to parton momentum fractions x \sim 10310^{-3} in the gold nucleus, where the interesting possibility of observing gluon saturation effects at RHIC is the greatest. Our measurements show that the correlated yield of back-to-back pairs in \dAu collisions is suppressed by up to an order of magnitude relative to \pp collisions, and increases with greater nuclear path thickness and with a selection for lower x in the Au nucleus.

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@article{arxiv.1109.2133,
  title  = {Cold nuclear matter physics at forward rapidities from d+Au collisions in PHENIX},
  author = {Mickey Chiu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1109.2133},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

To appear in the proceedings of Quark Matter 2011 (QM 2011), Annecy, France, 23-28 May 2011