Cold nuclear matter physics at forward rapidities from d+Au collisions in PHENIX
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 . With di-hadrons, varying the and rapidity of the particles in the di-hadron pair allows studying any effects as a function of partonic in the nucleus. These di-hadron measurements might probe down to parton momentum fractions x 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