Single Particle Probes of d+Au Collisions in PHENIX
Abstract
Deuteron-gold collisions provide insights into the nuclear structure function and a valuable baseline for Au+Au collisions. Measurement of the nuclear modification factor, R_{dAu}, in d+Au in the PHENIX central arms for hadrons and photons allows us to disentangle cold nuclear matter effects from the hot medium effects that are important in Au+Au collisions. In addition, the d+Au system can yield important insights into the gluonic structure of the Au nucleus. RHIC experiments have previously measured suppression of forward rapidity particle production relative to p+p scaled by the number of binary N-N collisions, but a definitive explanation of these data is thus far elusive. Correlations between hadrons with a large rapidity gap are a particularly sensitive probe of gluon saturation. We will discuss probing this physics via particle production in events tagged with high momentum particles at different rapidities, along with R_{dAu} in new forward rapidity regions.
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@article{arxiv.0907.4796,
title = {Single Particle Probes of d+Au Collisions in PHENIX},
author = {Zvi Citron},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0907.4796},
year = {2009}
}
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4 pages, 5 figures - To appear in the conference proceedings for Quark Matter 2009, March 30 - April 4, Knoxville, Tennessee (final version)