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Cronin effect from backward to forward rapidity

Nuclear Theory 2010-11-30 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Nuclear Experiment

Abstract

I discuss recent experimental data on the Cronin effect in deuteron-gold collisions at the top RHIC energy, in a pseudorapidity range [-2,3]. Two theoretical approaches are compared and contrasted: the pQCD-based Glauber-Eikonal model and Colour Glass Condensate models. Neither can describe the Cronin effect over the whole pseudorapidity interval up to now explored experimentally, its most mysterious and intriguing part being at negative rapidity.

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@article{arxiv.nucl-th/0405046,
  title  = {Cronin effect from backward to forward rapidity},
  author = {Alberto Accardi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/0405046},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

10 pages, 7 figures. Talk given at International Workshop on Hot and Dense Matter in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions (BP 2004), Budapest, Hungary, 24-27 March, 2004