Rapidity and centrality dependence of azimuthal correlations in Deuteron-Gold collisions at RHIC

TL;DR

This paper investigates azimuthal correlations in deuteron-gold collisions at RHIC, showing that gluon saturation effects in the Color Glass Condensate explain the observed suppression of back-to-back particle correlations.

Contribution

It provides a quantitative explanation for the depletion of back-to-back correlations using gluon saturation in the Color Glass Condensate framework.

Findings

Gluon saturation accounts for the correlation depletion.

Correlation patterns vary with rapidity and centrality.

Results support the CGC as a valid description at RHIC energies.

Abstract

We calculate azimuthal correlations in dAu collisions at different rapidities and centralities and argue that experimentally observed depletion of the back-to-back pick can be quantitatively explained by gluon saturation in the Color Glass Condensate of the Gold nucleus.