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RESEARCH PRODUCT

Suppression of Back-to-Back Hadron Pairs at Forward Rapidity ind+AuCollisions atsNN=200  GeV

F. MatathiasKensuke HommaE. RichardsonL. TomášekK. I. HahnY. FukaoB. BassalleckAlexei KhanzadeevM. KonnoT. HesterA. KissE. StenlundJ. B. ChoiHenner BueschingSteve EdwardsJ. T. MitchellR. SeidlVladislav MankoM. SlunečkaY. NakamiyaG. BaksayS. BelikovY. J. KimMarcus HohlmannC. ValeK. V. DharmawardaneX. HeN. GrauX. JiangH. PeiChristine Angela AidalaK. S. SimMaya Hachiya ShimomuraY. I. MakdisiT. HoraguchiM. RosatiK. SakashitaHongfang LiuD. E. FieldsC. SilvestreT. MurakamiY. AramakiMartin PurschkeV. PeresedovRobert VertesiB. V. JacakY. IkedaE. J. MannelC. L. WoodyA. BerdnikovAlexander MilovT. C. AwesKyoichiro OzawaT. LiškaMarisilvia DonadelliV. BumazhnovMotoi InabaB. MeredithL. A. Linden LevyR. YangI. NakagawaT. EngelmoreO. DrapierFrank EllinghausC. PinkenburgJ. KosterJ. S. BokJun KikuchiM. MccumberR. M. WrightA. CaringiJ. H. BhomE. R. KinneyM. GoninS. TarafdarJohn HillToru SugitateD. P. MorrisonA. MorrealeS. CampbellR. TanabeS. TanejaH. MasuiJ. JinJason KaminMate CsanadJongmin LeeD. LynchT. KempelE. M. TakaguiA. SukhanovJiangyong JiaJiangyong JiaZ. FraenkelY. GotoM. NaglisS. BatheG. RocheM. J. TannenbaumY. J. KwonS. SawadaJ. YingA. FranzT. V. MoukhanovaC. BaumannD. WatanabeH. PereiraY. MorinoD. S. JumperK. ImaiH. ToriiK. A. DreesR. K. ChoudhuryFrançois FleuretJ. HanksS. P. StollM. D. MalikDmitry BlauT. DahmsAgneta OskarssonH. A. GustafssonTatsuya ChujoB. AzmounA. KrálY. OnukiE. VznuzdaevC. P. SinghI. V. SourikovaT. IchiharaRushan HanM. NihashiB. M. JohnsonSung Keun ParkCharles MaguireMasayasu IshiharaS. DairakuI. TserruyaYu. EfremenkoMinghui LiuA. KimJan RakS. S.e. RosendahlK. N. BarishG. BunceTakahiro FusayasuVladimir SamsonovR. J. PettiEva HaslumE. J. DesmondY. BerdnikovG. GrimK. B. LeeN. N. AjitanandV. SinghR. LaceyS. NamAlexander MalakhovY. AkibaD. SilvermyrM. OkaM. TogawaM. HeffnerR. Granier De CassagnacKenneth Francis ReadKenneth Francis ReadA. AdareP. RužičkaS. NagamiyaL. S. ZolinW. J. ParkChristopher RosenM. ViriusA. IsupovD. KawallH. ThemannE. Vazquez-zambranoM. KasaiTamas Ferenc CsorgoAlice MignereyJ. SziklaiS. SanoS. SanoR. P. PisaniA. YanovichO. DietzschJ. L. NagleE. T. AtomssaL. D'orazioD. JouanH. ValleViktor RiabovE. KistenevAtsushi TaketaniP. LiebingA. DionTakahiro NakamuraM. I. NagyS. YokkaichiDipanwita DuttaBrian ColeS. N. WhiteDeepa ThomasC. H. ChenR. PakJ. MurataY. TsuchimotoY. IwanagaK. S. JooP. LichtenwalnerM. OuchidaK. DasM. L. BrooksK. KaratsuZvi Hirsh CitronJohannes Peter WesselsJulia VelkovskaA. GlennSusumu OdaTakao SakaguchiB. KomkovY. J. MaoK. WatanabeS. AfanasievK. NakanoI. RavinovichAnne Marie SicklesW. E. SondheimN. MeansR. S. TowellAaron AngeramiGerd Joachim KundeEunja KimI. E. YushmanovB. LoveA. D. FrawleyD. IvanischevA. DurumD. RoachP. A. RukoyatkinI. GarishviliM. BaiI. SheinN. ApadulaJen-chieh PengP. L. McgaugheyBeomkyu KimK. BoyleVaclav VrbaNorio SaitoTsutomu MibeKlaus Johannes ReygersJ. NewbyKazuyoshi KuritaF. WeiW. A. ZajcM. K. DayanandaK. M. KijimaS. HuangJ. H. KangK. ShojiJ. S. HaggertyM. A. L. LeiteC. OakleyA. G. LitvinenkoA. DreesV. BaublisA. DenisovV. CiancioloK. SedgwickInkyu ParkRui WeiW. HolzmannK. YamauraV. S. PantuevSergey FokinZhiying YouM. WysockiS. EsumiA. DeshpandeXiong WangD. SharmaZ. Conesa Del ValleDong Jo KimP. W. StankusG. R. YoungR. BennettM. KawashimaR. IchimiyaY. TanakaT. L. ThomasM. FingerA. VeichtR. SetoD. HornbackM. ChiuR. BelmontJ. S. KapustinskyXingguo LiJ. E. FrantzRyugo S. HayanoV. BabintsevJ. HamblenY. S. LaiC. A. OgilvieC. Y. ChiY. WatanabeG. S. KyleI. DanchevKisung LeeT. K. HemmickY. RiabovKenta ShigakiI. YounusPrashant ShuklaJ. M. DurhamH. J. MoonL. BaksayYasuo MiakeS. P. SorensenM. NguyenK. FujiwaraH. QuJames AlexanderK. OkadaA. S. NyaninS. F. PateR. AverbeckA. TaranenkoHideki HamagakiK. AokiByung-sik HongA. BazilevskyL. KochendaM. IssahRachid NouicerO. ChvalaM. ProisslB. SahlmuellerG. DavidY. L. YamaguchiKazushi MikiH. En'yoAlexandre LebedevM. J. LeitchD. M. LeeKe. NakamuraJ. G. LajoieBrajesh K. SinghH. Al-batainehI. J. ChoiA. KravitzH. W. Van HeckeV. PapavassiliouR. A. SoltzM. Grosse PerdekampM. E. ConnorsK. TanidaT. JonesPeter ChristiansenD. WinterD. Yu PeressounkoSenta GreeneA. T. BasyeB. FademE. O'brienAjit Kumar MohantyT. A. ShibataC. L. SilvaT. SatoD. IsenhowerA. ToiaM. KurosawaA. EnokizonoP. ChungA. DattaTaku GunjiH. GongJ. SeeleF. KajiharaS. ButsykS. ZhouS. D. RolnickA. V. Kazantsev

subject

PhysicsParticle physics010308 nuclear & particles physicsHigh Energy Physics::PhenomenologyNuclear TheoryHadronGeneral Physics and AstronomyParton7. Clean energy01 natural sciencesGluonNuclear physicsPseudorapidity0103 physical sciencesHigh Energy Physics::ExperimentRapidityImpact parameterNuclear Experiment010306 general physicsNucleonRelativistic Heavy Ion Collider

description

Back-to-back hadron pair yields in d + Au and p + p collisions at root S-NN = 200 GeV were measured with the PHENIX detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. Rapidity separated hadron pairs were detected with the trigger hadron at pseudorapidity vertical bar eta vertical bar < 0: 35 and the associated hadron at forward rapidity (deuteron direction, 3.0< eta < 3.8). Pairs were also detected with both hadrons measured at forward rapidity; in this case, the yield of back-to-back hadron pairs in d + Au collisions with small impact parameters is observed to be suppressed by a factor of 10 relative to p + p collisions. The kinematics of these pairs is expected to probe partons in the Au nucleus with a low fraction x of the nucleon momenta, where the gluon densities rise sharply. The observed suppression as a function of nuclear thickness, p(T), and eta points to cold nuclear matter effects arising at high parton densities.

https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.107.172301