Dihadron momentum imbalance and correlations in d+Au collisions
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2012-03-29 v1 Nuclear Experiment
Nuclear Theory
Abstract
We calculate in perturbative QCD the transverse momentum imbalance of dijet and dihadron production in high energy p+A (d+A) collisions. We evaluate the effect of both initial- and final-state multiple scattering, which determines the strength of this transverse momentum imbalance. Combining this new result with the suppression of the cross section in d+Au collisions, which arises from cold nuclear matter energy loss and coherent power corrections, we are able to describe the dihadron correlations measured by both PHENIX and STAR collaborations at RHIC, including mid-mid, mid-forward, and forward-forward rapidity hadron pairs.
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@article{arxiv.1112.6021,
title = {Dihadron momentum imbalance and correlations in d+Au collisions},
author = {Zhong-Bo Kang and Ivan Vitev and Hongxi Xing},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1112.6021},
year = {2012}
}
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12 pages, 6 figures