Pseudorapidity Dependence of Particle Production and Elliptic Flow in Asymmetric Nuclear Collisions of p+Al, p+Au, d+Au, and ^{3}He+Au at sqrt[s_{NN}]=200  GeV

• Published in: Physical review letters 2018-11, Vol.121 (22), p.222301-222301
• Main Authors: Adare, A, Aidala, C, Ajitanand, N N, Akiba, Y, Alfred, M, Andrieux, V, Aoki, K, Apadula, N, Asano, H, Ayuso, C, Azmoun, B, Babintsev, V, Bai, M, Bandara, N S, Bannier, B, Barish, K N, Bathe, S, Bazilevsky, A, Beaumier, M, Beckman, S, Belmont, R, Berdnikov, A, Berdnikov, Y, Blau, D S, Boer, M, Bok, J S, Boyle, K, Brooks, M L, Bryslawskyj, J, Bumazhnov, V, Butler, C, Campbell, S, Canoa Roman, V, Cervantes, R, Chen, C-H, Chi, C Y, Chiu, M, Choi, I J, Choi, J B, Chujo, T, Citron, Z, Connors, M, Cronin, N, Csanád, M, Csörgő, T, Danley, T W, Datta, A, Daugherity, M S, David, G, DeBlasio, K, Dehmelt, K, Denisov, A, Deshpande, A, Desmond, E J, Dion, A, Diss, P B, Dixit, D, Do, J H, Drees, A, Drees, K A, Dumancic, M, Durham, J M, Durum, A, Elder, T, Enokizono, A, En'yo, H, Esumi, S, Fadem, B, Fan, W, Feege, N, Fields, D E, Finger, M, Fokin, S L, Frantz, J E, Franz, A, Frawley, A D, Fukuda, Y, Gal, C, Gallus, P, Garg, P, Ge, H, Giordano, F, Glenn, A, Goto, Y, Grau, N, Greene, S V, Grosse Perdekamp, M, Gunji, T, Guragain, H, Hachiya, T, Haggerty, J S, Hahn, K I, Hamagaki, H, Hamilton, H F, Han, S Y, Hanks, J, Hasegawa, S, Haseler, T O S, Hashimoto, K
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment; Nuclear Experiment; Physics
• ISSN: 0031-9007; 1079-7114
• DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.222301

Asymmetric nuclear collisions of p+Al, p+Au, d+Au, and ^{3}He+Au at sqrt[s_{NN}]=200  GeV provide an excellent laboratory for understanding particle production, as well as exploring interactions among these particles after their initial creation in the collision. We present measurements of charged hadron production dN_{ch}/dη in all such collision systems over a broad pseudorapidity range and as a function of collision multiplicity. A simple wounded quark model is remarkably successful at describing the full data set. We also measure the elliptic flow v_{2} over a similarly broad pseudorapidity range. These measurements provide key constraints on models of particle emission and their translation into flow.