Deuteron-nucleus collisions in a multiphase transport model

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2003

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American Physical Society

Abstract

Using a multiphase transport model, we study pseudorapidity distributions and transverse momentum spectra in deuteron-gold collisions at RHIC. We find that final-state partonic and hadronic interactions affect the transverse momentum spectrum of protons more than those of kaons or pions. Relative to p+p collisions at same center-of-mass energy per nucleon pair, the effect of final-state interactions on the charged particle transverse momentum spectra in d+Au collisions is much smaller than observed in experimental data, indicating that initial-state effects such as the Cronin effect are important.

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HEAVY-ION COLLISIONS, HIGH-DENSITY QCD, ELLIPTIC FLOW, PARTICLE-PRODUCTION, CENTRALITY DEPENDENCE, PLUS AU, ENERGY, PARTON, MULTIPLICITIES, FRAGMENTATION, Physics

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Z. W. Lin and Che Ming Ko. Phys.Rev.C 68 054904 2003. "Copyright (2003) by the American Physical Society."