Cronin effect vs. geometrical shadowing in d+Au collisions at RHIC
Abstract
Multiple initial state parton interactions in p(d)+Au collisions are calculated in a Glauber-Eikonal formalism. The convolution of perturbative QCD parton-nucleon cross sections predicts naturally the competing pattern of low-pT suppression due geometrical shadowing, and a moderate-pT Cronin enhancement of hadron spectra. The formal equivalence to recent classical Yang-Mills calculations is demonstrated, but our approach is shown to be more general in the large x>0.01 domain because it automatically incorporates the finite kinematic constraints of both quark and gluon processes in the fragmentation regions, and accounts for the observed spectra in elementary pp-->\pi+X processes in the RHIC energy range, sqrt{s} = 20-200 GeV. The Glauber-Eikonal formalism can be used as a baseline to extract the magnitude of dynamical shadowing effects from the experimental data at differente centralities and pseudo-rapidities.
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@article{arxiv.nucl-th/0308029,
title = {Cronin effect vs. geometrical shadowing in d+Au collisions at RHIC},
author = {Alberto Accardi and Miklos Gyulassy},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/0308029},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
9 pages, 5 figures. A bug in the kt-smearing routine was found and corrected. K-factor an p0 have then been refitted in p+p collisions. Some clarifications on the proposed approach have been added