Dihadron
momentum imbalance and
correlations in d+Au collisions, Z. Kang; Brookhaven National
Laboratory, Upton, New
York, USA − In recent years, there has been renewed
interest in nuclear
effects that affect hadronic observables in proton-nucleus (p+A)
and
deuteron-nucleus (d+A) collisions.
In
this work, by taking into account both initial- and final-state
multiple parton
scattering inside the nucleus, we calculate in perturbative QCD
the transverse momentum
imbalance (nuclear-induced broadening) of dijet and dihadron
production in high
energy p+A (d+A) collisions.
The
nuclear-induced broadening can be used to calculate the width of
the away-side
peak in dihadron correlation measurements.
Combining this new result with the suppression of the
cross section in
d+Au collisions, which arises from cold nuclear matter energy
loss and coherent
power corrections, we are able to describe the dihadron
correlations measured
recently by both PHENIX and STAR collaborations at RHIC,
including mid-mid,
mid-forward, and forward-forward rapidity hadron pairs.