Forward Neutral Pion Production in p+p and d+Au Collisions at sqrt(s_NN)=200 GeV

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2006-02-09

arxiv.org/abs/nucl-ex/0602011v2

Phys.Rev.Lett.97:152302,2006

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Nuclear Physics

Nuclear Experiment

6 pages, 4 figures. Minor changes from review process in Phys. Rev. Lett. Plain text tables of data in STAR publications may b

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.152302

Measurements of the production of forward pi0 mesons from p+p and d+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN)=200 GeV are reported. The p+p yield generally agrees with next-to-leading order perturbative QCD calculations. The d+Au yield per binary collision is suppressed as eta increases, decreasing to ~30% of the p+p yield at =4.00, well below shadowing expectations. Exploratory measurements of azimuthal correlations of the forward pi0 with charged hadrons at eta~0 show a recoil peak in p+p that is suppressed in d+Au at low pion energy. These observations are qualitatively consistent with a saturation picture of the low-x gluon structure of heavy nuclei.

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