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Nuclear effects on hadron production in d plus Au collisions at root S-NN=200 GeV revealed by comparison with p plus p data
Physical Review C
  • S. S. Adler, Brookhaven National Laboratory
  • Sergey Belikov, Iowa State University
  • Paul Constantin, Iowa State University
  • Nathan C. Grau, Iowa State University
  • John C. Hill, Iowa State University
  • John G. Lajoie, Iowa State University
  • Alexandre Lebedev, Iowa State University
  • Craig Ogilvie, Iowa State University
  • H. Pei, Iowa State University
  • Jan Rak, Iowa State University
  • Marzia Rosati, Iowa State University
  • F. K. Wohn, Iowa State University
  • X. Zong, Iowa State University
  • et al.
  • PHENIX Collaboration, PHENIX Collaboration
Document Type
Article
Disciplines
Publication Version
Published Version
Publication Date
8-1-2006
DOI
10.1103/PhysRevC.74.024904
Abstract
PHENIX has measured the centrality dependence of midrapidity pion, kaon, and proton transverse momentum distributions in d+Au and p+p collisions at root s(NN) = 200 GeV. The p+p data provide a reference for nuclear effects in d+Au and previously measured Au+Au collisions. Hadron production is enhanced in d+Au, relative to independent nucleon-nucleon scattering, as was observed in lower energy collisions. The nuclear modification factor for (anti)protons is larger than that for pions. The difference increases with centrality but is not sufficient to account for the abundance of baryon production observed in central Au+Au collisions at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). The centrality dependence in d+Au shows that the nuclear modification factor increases gradually with the number of collisions encountered by each participant nucleon. We also present comparisons with lower energy data as well as with parton recombination and other theoretical models of nuclear effects on particle production.
Comments

This article is published as Adler, Stephen Scott, S. Afanasiev, C. Aidala, N. N. Ajitanand, Y. Akiba, A. Al-Jamel, J. Alexander et al. "Nuclear effects on hadron production in d+ Au collisions at s NN= 200 GeV revealed by comparison with p+ p data." Physical Review C 74, no. 2 (2006): 024904. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevC.74.024904. Posted with permission.

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American Physical Society
Language
en
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Citation Information
S. S. Adler, Sergey Belikov, Paul Constantin, Nathan C. Grau, et al.. "Nuclear effects on hadron production in d plus Au collisions at root S-NN=200 GeV revealed by comparison with p plus p data" Physical Review C Vol. 74 Iss. 2 (2006) p. 024904
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