Nuclear-modification factor of charged hadrons at forward and backward rapidity in <i>p</i> plus Al and <i>p</i> plus Au collisions at √<i>S<sub>NN</sub></i>=200 GeV


Aidala C., Akiba Y., Alfred M., Andrieux V., Apadula N., Asano H., ...More

PHYSICAL REVIEW C, vol.101, no.3, 2020 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 101 Issue: 3
  • Publication Date: 2020
  • Doi Number: 10.1103/physrevc.101.034910
  • Journal Name: PHYSICAL REVIEW C
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus, Academic Search Premier, INSPEC
  • Yıldız Technical University Affiliated: No

Abstract

The PHENIX experiment has studied nuclear effects in p + Al and p + Au collisions at root S-NN = 200GeV on charged hadron production at forward rapidity (1.4 < eta < 2.4, p-going direction) and backward rapidity (-2.2 < eta < -1.2, A-going direction). Such effects are quantified by measuring nuclear modification factors as a function of transverse momentum and pseudorapidity in various collision multiplicity selections. In central p + Al and p + Au collisions, a suppression (enhancement) is observed at forward (backward) rapidity compared to the binary scaled yields in p + p collisions. The magnitude of enhancement at backward rapidity is larger in p + Au collisions than in p + Al collisions, which have a smaller number of participating nucleons. However, the results at forward rapidity show a similar suppression within uncertainties. The results in the integrated centrality are compared with calculations using nuclear parton distribution functions, which show a reasonable agreement at the forward rapidity but fail to describe the backward rapidity enhancement.