Forward and backward to mid-rapidity correlations measured in d+Au collisions at with the PHENIX detector

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Probing High Parton Densities at Low-x in d+Au Collisions at PHENIX Using the New Forward and Backward Muon Piston Calorimeters

✍ Beau Meredith 📂 Article 📅 2009 🏛 Elsevier Science 🌐 English ⚖ 379 KB

The new forward Muon Piston Calorimeters allow PHENIX to explore low-x parton distributions in d+Au collisions with hopes of observing gluon saturation. We present a two-particle azimuthal Δφ correlation measurement made between a mid-rapidity particle (|η 1 | < 0.35) and a forward π 0 (3.1 < η 2 <