Monday, March 19, 2012

1109.1817 (Anna Stasto et al.)

Back-to-Back Correlations of Di-hadrons in dAu Collisions at RHIC    [PDF]

Anna Stasto, Bo-Wen Xiao, Feng Yuan
We perform a complete theoretical analysis of the azimuthal angular correlation of two-hadron productions in the forward $dAu$ collisions at RHIC in the saturation formalism, and obtain a very good agreement with the experimental data. It is demonstrated that the suppression and broadening of the away side peak provide a unique signal for the onset of the saturation mechanism at small-$x$ in a large nucleus. We emphasize that future experiments of di-hadron correlations in $pA$ collisions at both RHIC and LHC, and in $eA$ collisions at the planned electron-ion collider, shall provide us with a thorough study and understanding of the strong interaction dynamics in the saturation regime.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1109.1817

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