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

  • A. Adare
  • , C. Aidala
  • , N. N. Ajitanand
  • , Y. Akiba
  • , H. Al-Bataineh
  • , J. Alexander
  • , A. Angerami
  • , K. Aoki
  • , N. Apadula
  • , Y. Aramaki
  • , E. T. Atomssa
  • , R. Averbeck
  • , T. C. Awes
  • , B. Azmoun
  • , V. Babintsev
  • , M. Bai
  • , G. Baksay
  • , L. Baksay
  • , K. N. Barish
  • , B. Bassalleck
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  • University of Colorado Boulder
  • Department of Physics
  • UMass Amherst
  • University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  • Department of and Chemistry
  • Stony Brook University
  • RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science
  • Riken BNL Research Center
  • New Mexico State University
  • Columbia University
  • Kyoto University
  • Iowa State University
  • Department of Physics and Astronomy
  • Center for Nuclear Study
  • University of Tokyo
  • Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  • Physics Department
  • Brookhaven National Laboratory
  • Kurchatov Institute
  • Collider-Accelerator Department
  • Florida Institute of Technology
  • University of California, Riverside
  • University of New Mexico
  • Abilene Christian University
  • Baruch College
  • Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute (PNPI)
  • University of Münster
  • Vanderbilt University
  • Yonsei University
  • Kurchatov Institute
  • MST-8, Los Alamos National Laboratory
  • Muhlenberg College
  • Chonbuk National University
  • Bhabha Atomic Research Centre
  • Department of Physics
  • Lund University
  • Institute of Physics
  • University of Tsukuba
  • ELTE
  • Eötvös Loránd University
  • Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics
  • Hungarian Academy of Sciences
  • Florida State University
  • Georgia State University
  • Instituto de Fisica
  • University of São Paulo
  • University of Maryland, College Park
  • Charles University
  • Weizmann Institute of Science Israel
  • Astrophysical Institute
  • Ohio University
  • Nagasaki Institute of Applied Science
  • University of Tennessee
  • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
  • Department of Physics
  • Augustana College
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Ewha Womans University
  • Tsinghua University
  • Hiroshima University
  • Korea University
  • Advanced Science Research Center
  • Japan Atomic Energy Agency
  • Myongji University
  • Université Paris-Saclay
  • Department of Physics
  • Rikkyo University
  • Waseda University
  • University of Jyväskylä
  • Czech Technical University in Prague
  • Science and Technology on Nuclear Data Laboratory
  • China Institute of Atomic Energy
  • High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK)
  • Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  • Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, CNRS and CEA
  • Université Blaise Pascal
  • Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences
  • Department of Physics
  • Tokyo Institute of Technology
  • Department of Physics
  • Banaras Hindu University
  • Group of Laser Development (GoLD)
  • Lahore University of Management Sciences
  • Department of Physics

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Abstract

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 sNN=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 sNN=200 GeV, these bias corrections are small and vary by less than 5% (10%) up to pT=10 (20) GeV/c. In contrast, for p+Pb collisions at sNN=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.

Original languageEnglish
Article number034902
JournalPhysical Review C - Nuclear Physics
Volume90
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 5 Sept 2014

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