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Two Particle Correlations at Forward Rapidity in STAR

Nuclear Experiment 2019-08-13 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

During the 2008 run RHIC provided high luminosity in both p+p and d+Au collisions at sNN=200\sqrt{s_{NN}}= 200 GeV. Electromagnetic calorimeter acceptance in STAR was enhanced by the new Forward Meson Spectrometer (FMS), and is now almost contiguous from 1<η<4-1<\eta<4 over the full azimuth. This large acceptance provides sensitivity to the gluon density in the nucleus down to x103x\approx 10^{-3}, as expected for 222\rightarrow 2 parton scattering. Measurements of the azimuthal correlation between a forward π0\pi^{0} and an associated particle at large rapidity are sensitive to the low-x gluon density. Data exhibit the qualitative features expected from gluon saturation. A comparison to calculations using the Color Glass Condensate (CGC) model is presented.

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@article{arxiv.1008.3989,
  title  = {Two Particle Correlations at Forward Rapidity in STAR},
  author = {Ermes Braidot},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1008.3989},
  year   = {2019}
}

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proceeding for the RBRC workshop: "Saturation, the Color Glass Condensate and Glasma: What Have we Learned from RHIC?"

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