Cold-nuclear-matter effects on heavy-quark production at forward and backward rapidity in d+Au collisions at √sNN = 200 GeV

Adare, A. and Aidala, C. and Ajitanand, N. N. and Akiba, Y. and Akimoto, R. and Al-Bataineh, H. and Al-Ta'ani, H. and Alexander, J. and Andrews, K. R. and Angerami, A. and Aoki, K. and Apadula, N. and Appelt, E. and Aramaki, Y. and Armendariz, R. and Aschenauer, E. C. and Atomssa, E. T. and Averbeck, R. and Awes, T. C. and Azmoun, B. and Babintsev, V. and Bai, M. and Baksay, G. and Baksay, L. and Bannier, B. and Barish, K. N. and Bassalleck, B. and Basye, A. T. and Bathe, S. and Baublis, V. and Csanád, Máté and Csörgő, Tamás and Dávid, Gábor and Kiss, Ádám and Nagy, Márton and Sziklai, János István and Vértesi, Róbert (2014) Cold-nuclear-matter effects on heavy-quark production at forward and backward rapidity in d+Au collisions at √sNN = 200 GeV. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 112. ISSN 0031-9007

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Abstract

The PHENIX experiment has measured open heavy-flavor production via semileptonic decay muons over the transverse momentum range 1 < pT < 6 GeV/c at forward and backward rapidity (1.4 < |y| < 2.0) in d+Au and p+p collisions at ?sNN = 200 GeV. In central d+Au collisions an enhancement (suppression) of heavy-flavor muon production is observed at backward (forward) rapidity relative to the yield in p+p collisions scaled by the number of binary collisions. Modification of the gluon density distribution in the Au nucleus contributes in terms of anti-shadowing enhancement and shadowing suppression; however, the enhancement seen at backward rapidity exceeds expectations from this effect alone. These results, implying an important role for additional cold nuclear matter effects, serves as a key baseline for heavy-quark measurements in A+A collisions and in constraining the magnitude of charmonia breakup effects at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and the Large Hadron Collider.

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