Heavy-flavor electron-muon correlations in p+p and d+Au collisions at √s.sub.NN./sub.=200 GeV

0522657 - FZÚ 2020 RIV US eng J - Journal Article
Adare, A. - Afanasiev, S. - Aidala, C. - Mašek, L. - Mikeš, P. - Růžička, Pavel - Tomášek, Lukáš - Vrba, Václav … Total 449 authors
Heavy-flavor electron-muon correlations in p+p and d+Au collisions at √s_NN=200 GeV.
Physical Review C. Roč. 89, č. 3 (2014), s. 1-14, č. článku 034915. ISSN 2469-9985. E-ISSN 2469-9993
Institutional support: RVO:68378271
Keywords : PHENIX * Brookhaven RHIC Coll * 200 GeV-cms/nucleon * experimental results
OECD category: Particles and field physics
Impact factor: 3.733, year: 2014
Method of publishing: Limited access
https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevc.89.034915

Background: Heavy-flavor modification in relativistic p(d)+A collisions are sensitive to different kinds of strong-interaction physics ranging from modifications of the nuclear wave function to initial- and final-state energy loss. Modifications to single heavy-flavor particles and their decay leptons at midrapidity and forward rapidity are well established at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). Purpose: This paper presents measurements of azimuthal correlations of electron-muon pairs produced from heavy-flavor decays, primarily cc¯, in sNN=200 GeV p+p and d+Au collision using the PHENIX detector at RHIC. The electrons are measured at midrapidity while the muons in the pair are measured at forward rapidity, defined as the direction of the deuteron beam, in order to utilize the deuteron to probe low-x partons in the gold nucleus.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0307114