Centrality categorization Rp(d)+A in high-energy collisions

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作者
Adare, A. [13 ]
Aidala, C. [43 ,44 ]
Ajitanand, N. N. [60 ]
Akiba, Y. [56 ,57 ]
Al-Bataineh, H. [50 ]
Alexander, J. [60 ]
Angerami, A. [14 ,15 ]
Aoki, K. [35 ,56 ]
Apadula, N. [28 ,61 ]
Aramaki, Y. [12 ,56 ]
Atomssa, E. T. [36 ]
Averbeck, R. [61 ]
Awes, T. C. [52 ]
Azmoun, B. [7 ]
Babintsev, V. [24 ]
Bai, M. [6 ]
Baksay, G. [20 ]
Baksay, L. [20 ]
Barish, K. N. [8 ]
Bassalleck, B. [49 ]
Basye, A. T. [1 ]
Bathe, S. [5 ,8 ,57 ]
Baublis, V. [55 ]
Baumann, C. [45 ]
Bazilevsky, A. [7 ]
Belikov, S. [7 ]
Belmont, R. [65 ]
Bennett, R. [61 ]
Bhom, J. H. [69 ]
Blau, D. S. [34 ]
Bok, J. S. [69 ]
Boyle, K. [61 ]
Brooks, M. L. [39 ]
Buesching, H. [7 ]
Bumazhnov, V. [24 ]
Bunce, G. [7 ,57 ]
Butsyk, S. [39 ]
Campbell, S. [61 ]
Caringi, A. [46 ]
Chen, C. -H. [61 ]
Chi, C. Y. [14 ,15 ]
Chiu, M. [7 ]
Choi, I. J. [69 ]
Choi, J. B. [10 ]
Choudhury, R. K. [4 ]
Christiansen, P. [41 ]
Chujo, T. [64 ]
Chung, P. [60 ]
Chvala, O. [8 ]
Cianciolo, V. [52 ]
机构
[1] Abilene Christian Univ, Abilene, TX 79699 USA
[2] Augustana Coll, Dept Phys, Sioux Falls, SD 57197 USA
[3] Banaras Hindu Univ, Dept Phys, Varanasi 221005, Uttar Pradesh, India
[4] Bhabha Atom Res Ctr, Bombay 400085, Maharashtra, India
[5] CUNY, Baruch Coll, New York, NY 10010 USA
[6] Brookhaven Natl Lab, Collider Accelerator Dept, Upton, NY 11973 USA
[7] Brookhaven Natl Lab, Dept Phys, Upton, NY 11973 USA
[8] Univ Calif Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521 USA
[9] Charles Univ Prague, CR-11636 Prague, Czech Republic
[10] Chonbuk Natl Univ, Jeonju 561756, South Korea
[11] China Inst Atom Energy, Sci & Technol Nucl Data Lab, Beijing 102413, Peoples R China
[12] Univ Tokyo, Grad Sch Sci, Ctr Nucl Study, Bunkyo Ku, Tokyo 1130033, Japan
[13] Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309 USA
[14] Columbia Univ, New York, NY 10027 USA
[15] Nevis Labs, Irvington, NY 10533 USA
[16] Czech Tech Univ, Prague 16636 6, Czech Republic
[17] CEA Saclay, Dapnia, F-91191 Gif Sur Yvette, France
[18] Eotvos Lorand Univ, ELTE, H-1117 Budapest, Hungary
[19] Ewha Womans Univ, Seoul 120750, South Korea
[20] Florida Inst Technol, Melbourne, FL 32901 USA
[21] Florida State Univ, Tallahassee, FL 32306 USA
[22] Georgia State Univ, Atlanta, GA 30303 USA
[23] Hiroshima Univ, Higashihiroshima 7398526, Japan
[24] State Res Ctr Russian Federat, Inst High Energy Phys, IHEP Protvino, Protvino 142281, Russia
[25] Univ Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801 USA
[26] Russian Acad Sci, Inst Nucl Res, Moscow 117312, Russia
[27] Acad Sci Czech Republ, Inst Phys, Prague 18221 8, Czech Republic
[28] Iowa State Univ, Ames, IA 50011 USA
[29] Japan Atom Energy Agcy, Adv Sci Res Ctr, Ibaraki 3191195, Japan
[30] Helsinki Inst Phys, FI-40014 Jyvaskyla, Finland
[31] Univ Jyvaskyla, FI-40014 Jyvaskyla, Finland
[32] High Energy Accelerator Org, KEK, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 3050801, Japan
[33] Korea Univ, Seoul 136701, South Korea
[34] Russian Res Ctr, Kurchatov Inst, Moscow 123098, Russia
[35] Kyoto Univ, Kyoto 6068502, Japan
[36] Ecole Polytech, CNRS, IN2P3, Lab Leprince Ringuet, F-91128 Palaiseau, France
[37] Lahore Univ Management Sci, Dept Phys, Lahore 54792, Pakistan
[38] Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab, Livermore, CA 94550 USA
[39] Los Alamos Natl Lab, Los Alamos, NM 87545 USA
[40] Univ Blaise Pascal, CNRS, IN2P3, LPC, F-63177 Clermont Ferrand, France
[41] Lund Univ, Dept Phys, SE-22100 Lund, Sweden
[42] Univ Maryland, College Pk, MD 20742 USA
[43] Univ Massachusetts, Dept Phys, Amherst, MA 01003 USA
[44] Univ Michigan, Dept Phys, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA
[45] Univ Munster, Inst Kernphys, D-48149 Munster, Germany
[46] Muhlenberg Coll, Allentown, PA 18104 USA
[47] Myongji Univ, Yongin 449728, Kyonggido, South Korea
[48] Nagasaki Inst Appl Sci, Nagasaki 8510193, Japan
[49] Univ New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131 USA
[50] New Mexico State Univ, Las Cruces, NM 88003 USA
来源
PHYSICAL REVIEW C | 2014年 / 90卷 / 03期
基金
新加坡国家研究基金会; 日本学术振兴会; 美国国家科学基金会; 以色列科学基金会;
关键词
MULTIPLICITY DISTRIBUTIONS; ANGULAR-CORRELATIONS; LONG-RANGE; PARTON; SCATTERING; SIDE;
D O I
10.1103/PhysRevC.90.034902
中图分类号
O57 [原子核物理学、高能物理学];
学科分类号
070202 ;
摘要
High-energy proton- and deuteron-nucleus collisions provide an excellent tool for studying a wide array of physics effects, including modifications of parton distribution functions in nuclei, gluon saturation, and color neutralization and hadronization in a nuclear environment, among others. All of these effects are expected to have a significant dependence on the size of the nuclear target and the impact parameter of the collision, also known as the collision centrality. In this article, we detail a method for determining centrality classes in p(d) + A collisions via cuts on the multiplicity at backward rapidity (i.e., the nucleus-going direction) and for determining systematic uncertainties in this procedure. For d + Au collisions at root s(NN) = 200 GeV we find that the connection to geometry is confirmed by measuring the fraction of events in which a neutron from the deuteron does not interact with the nucleus. As an application, we consider the nuclear modification factors Rp(d)+A, for which there is a bias in the measured centrality-dependent yields owing to auto correlations between the process of interest and the backward-rapidity multiplicity. We determine the bias-correction factors within this framework. This method is further tested using the HIJING Monte Carlo generator. We find that for d + Au collisions at root s(NN) = 200 GeV, these bias corrections are small and vary by less than 5% (10%) up to p(T) = 10 (20) GeV/c. In contrast, for p + Pb collisions at v root s(NN) = 5.02 TeV we find that these bias factors are an order of magnitude larger and strongly pT dependent, likely attributable to the larger effect of multiparton interactions.
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