Centrality dependence of charged hadron production in deuteron + gold and nucleon + gold collisions at s(NN)**(1/2) = 200-GeV

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Aug, 2007
15 pages
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  • Phys.Rev.C 77 (2008) 014905
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Abstract: (arXiv)
We present transverse momentum (p_T) spectra of charged hadrons measured in deuteron-gold and nucleon-gold collisions at \sqrts = 200 GeV for four centrality classes. Nucleon-gold collisions were selected by tagging events in which a spectator nucleon was observed in one of two forward rapidity detectors. The spectra and yields were investigated as a function of the number of binary nucleon-nucleon collisions, \nu, suffered by deuteron nucleons. A comparison of charged particle yields to those in p+p collisions show that the yield per nucleon-nucleon collision saturates with \nu for high momentum particles. We also present the charged hadron to neutral pion ratios as a function of p_T.
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  • 330 authors, 15 pages text, 16 figures, 3 tables. Submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett. Plain text data tables for the points plotted in figures for this and previous PHENIX publications are (or will be) publicly available at http://www.phenix.bnl.gov/papers.html
  • 25.75.Dw
  • deuteron nucleus: colliding beams
  • gold
  • nucleon: spectator
  • nucleon nucleus: interaction
  • hadron: multiple production
  • charged particle: multiplicity
  • transverse momentum: spectrum
  • impact parameter: dependence
  • nucleon nucleon: interaction