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Azimuthal Angle Correlations for Rapidity Separated Hadron Pairs in d+Au Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$=200 GeV (2006)

Abstract
Deuteron-gold (d+Au) collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider provide ideal platforms for testing QCD theories in dense nuclear matter at high energy. In particular, models suggesting strong saturation effects for partons carrying small nucleon momentum fraction (x) predict modifications to jet production at forward rapidity (deuteron-going direction) in d+Au collisions. We report on two-particle azimuthal angle correlations between charged hadrons at forward/backward (deuteron/gold going direction) rapidity and charged hadrons at midrapidity in d+Au and p+p collisions at sqrt(s[sub NN])=200 GeV. Jet structures observed in the correlations are quantified in terms of the conditional yield and angular width of away-side partners. The kinematic region studied here samples partons in the gold nucleus with x~0.1 to ~0.01. Within this range, we find no x dependence of the jet structure in d+Au collisions.

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Publisher HAL - CCSd - CNRS
Contributors Marie-Christine Blanchet
Repository CCSd/HAL : e-articles server (based on gBUS) (France)
Keywords Physics/High Energy Physics - Experiment, Physics/Nuclear Experiment
Type ARTJOURNAL