Abstract
The PHENIX experiment has studied nuclear effects in and collisions at on charged hadron production at forward rapidity (, -going direction) and backward rapidity (, -going direction). Such effects are quantified by measuring nuclear modification factors as a function of transverse momentum and pseudorapidity in various collision multiplicity selections. In central and collisions, a suppression (enhancement) is observed at forward (backward) rapidity compared to the binary scaled yields in collisions. The magnitude of enhancement at backward rapidity is larger in collisions than in collisions, which have a smaller number of participating nucleons. However, the results at forward rapidity show a similar suppression within uncertainties. The results in the integrated centrality are compared with calculations using nuclear parton distribution functions, which show a reasonable agreement at the forward rapidity but fail to describe the backward rapidity enhancement.
8 More- Received 26 June 2019
- Accepted 24 February 2020
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.101.034910
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