Centrality categorization Rp(d)+A in high-energy collisions

Adare, A.; Aidala, C.; Ajitanand, N. N.; Akiba, Y.; Al-Bataineh, H.; Alexander, J.; Angerami, A.; Aoki, K.; Apadula, N.; Aramaki, Y.; Atomssa, E. T.; Averbeck, R.; Awes, T. C.; Azmoun, B.; Babintsev, V.; Bai, M.; Baksay, G.; Baksay, L.; Barish, K. N.; Bassalleck, B.; Basye, A. T.; Bathe, S.; Baublis, V.; Baumann, C.; Bazilevsky, A.; Belikov, S.; Belmont, R.; Bennett, R.; Bhom, J. H.; Blau, D. S.; Bok, J. S.; Boyle, K.; Brooks, M. L.; Buesching, H.; Bumazhnov, V.; Bunce, G.; Butsyk, S.; Campbell, S.; Caringi, A.; Chen, C. -H.; Chi, C. Y.; Chiu, M.; Choi, I. J.; Choi, J. B.; Choudhury, R. K.; Christiansen, P.; Chujo, T.; Chung, P.; Chvala, O.; Cianciolo, V.; Citron, Z.; Cole, B. A.; del Valle, Z. Conesa; Connors, M.; Csanad, M.; Csoergo, T.; Dahms, T.; Dairaku, S.; Danchev, I.; Das, K.; Datta, A.; David, G.; Dayananda, M. K.; Denisov, A.; Deshpande, A.; Desmond, E. J.; Dharmawardane, K. V.; Dietzsch, O.; Dion, A.; Donadelli, M.; Drapier, O.; Drees, A.; Drees, K. A.; Durham, J. M.; Durum, A.; Dutta, D.; D'Orazio, L.; Edwards, S.; Efremenko, Y. V.; Ellinghaus, F.; Engelmore, T.; Enokizono, A.; En'yo, H.; Esumi, S.; Fadem, B.; Fields, D. E.; Finger, M.; Finger, Jr., M.; Fleuret, F.; Fokin, S. L.; Fraenkel, Z.; Frantz, J. E.; Franz, A.; Frawley, A. D.; Fujiwara, K.; Fukao, Y.; Fusayasu, T.; Garishvili, I.; Glenn, A.; Gong, H.; Gonin, M.; Goto, Y.; de Cassagnac, R. Granier; Grau, N.; Greene, S. V.; Grim, G.; Perdekamp, M. Grosse; Gunji, T.; Gustafsson, H. -A .; Haggerty, J. S.; Hahn, K. I.; Hamagaki, H.; Hamblen, J.; Han, R.; Hanks, J.; Haslum, E.; Hayano, R.; He, X.; Heffner, M.; Hemmick, T. K.; Hester, T.; Hill, J. C.; Hohlmann, M.; Holzmann, W.; Homma, K.; Hong, B.; Horaguchi, T.; Hornback, D.; Huang, S.; Ichihara, T.; Ichimiya, R.; Ikeda, Y.; Imai, K.; Inaba, M.; Isenhower, D.; Ishihara, M.; Issah, M.; Ivanischev, D.; Iwanaga, Y.; Jacak, B. V.; Jia, J.; Jiang, X.; Jin, J.; Johnson, B. M.; Jones, T.; Joo, K. S.; Jouan, D.; Jumper, D. S.; Kajihara, F.; Kamin, J.; Kang, J. H.; Kapustinsky, J.; Karatsu, K.; Kasai, M.; Kawall, D.; Kawashima, M.; Kazantsev, A. V.; Kempel, T.; Khanzadeev, A.; Kijima, K. M.; Kikuchi, J.; Kim, A.; Kim, B. I.; Kim, D. J.; Kim, E. -J.; Kim, Y. -J.; Kinney, E.; Kiss, A.; Kistenev, E.; Kleinjan, D.; Kochenda, L.; Komkov, B.; Konno, M.; Koster, J.; Kral, A.; Kravitz, A.; Kunde, G. J.; Kurita, K.; Kurosawa, M.; Kwon, Y.; Kyle, G. S.; Lacey, R.; Lai, Y. S.; Lajoie, J. G.; Lebedev, A.; Lee, D. M.; Lee, J.; Lee, K. B.; Lee, K. S.; Leitch, M. J.; Leite, M. A. L.; Li, X.; Lichtenwalner, P.; Liebing, P.; Levy, L. A. Linden; Liska, T.; Liu, H.; Liu, M. X.; Love, B.; Lynch, D.; Maguire, C. F.; Makdisi, Y. I.; Malik, M. D.; Manko, V. I.; Mannel, E.; Mao, Y.; Masui, H.; Matathias, F.; McCumber, M.; McGaughey, P. L.; McGlinchey, D.; Means, N.; Meredith, B.; Miake, Y.; Mibe, T.; Mignerey, A. C.; Miki, K.; Milov, A.; Mitchell, J. T.; Mohanty, A. K.; Moon, H. J.; Morino, Y.; Morreale, A.; Morrison, D. P.; Moukhanova, T. V.; Murakami, T.; Murata, J.; Nagamiya, S.; Nagle, J. L.; Naglis, M.; Nagy, M. I.; Nakagawa, I.; Nakamiya, Y.; Nakamura, K. R.; Nakamura, T.; Nakano, K.; Nam, S.; Newby, J.; Nguyen, M.; Nihashi, M.; Nouicer, R.; Nyanin, A. S.; Oakley, C.; O'Brien, E.; Oda, S. X.; Ogilvie, C. A.; Oka, M.; Okada, K.; Onuki, Y.; Koop, J. D. Orjuela; Oskarsson, A.; Ouchida, M.; Ozawa, K.; Pak, R.; Pantuev, V.; Papavassiliou, V.; Park, I. H.; Park, S. K.; Park, W. J.; Pate, S. F.; Pei, H.; Peng, J. -C.; Pereira, H.; Perepelitsa, D.; Peressounko, D. Yu.; Petti, R.; Pinkenburg, C.; Pisani, R. P.; Proissl, M.; Purschke, M. L.; Qu, H.; Rak, J.; Ravinovich, I.; Read, K. F.; Rembeczki, S.; Reygers, K.; Riabov, V.; Riabov, Y.; Richardson, E.; Roach, D.; Roche, G.; Rolnick, S. D.; Rosati, M.; Rosen, C. A.; Rosendahl, S. S. E.; Ruzicka, P.; Sahlmueller, B.; Saito, N.; Sakaguchi, T.; Sakashita, K.; Samsonov, V.; Sano, S.; Sato, T.; Sawada, S.; Sedgwick, K.; Seele, J.; Seidl, R.; Seto, R.; Sharma, D.; Shein, I.; Shibata, T. -A.; Shigaki, K.; Shimomura, M.; Shoji, K.; Shukla, P.; Sickles, A.; Silva, C. L.; Silvermyr, D.; Silvestre, C.; Sim, K. S.; Singh, B. K.; Singh, C. P.; Singh, V.; Slunecka, M.; Soltz, R. A.; Sondheim, W. E.; Sorensen, S. P.; Sourikova, I. V.; Stankus, P. W.; Stenlund, E.; Stoll, S. P.; Sugitate, T.; Sukhanov, A.; Sziklai, J.; Takagui, E. M.; Taketani, A.; Tanabe, R.; Tanaka, Y.; Taneja, S.; Tanida, K.; Tannenbaum, M. J.; Tarafdar, S.; Taranenko, A.; Themann, H.; Thomas, D.; Thomas, T. L.; Togawa, M.; Toia, A.; Tomasek, L.; Torii, H.; Towell, R. S.; Tserruya, I.; Tsuchimoto, Y.; Vale, C.; Valle, H.; van Hecke, H. W.; Vazquez-Zambrano, E.; Veicht, A.; Velkovska, J.; Vertesi, R.; Virius, M.; Vrba, V.; Vznuzdaev, E.; Wang, X. R.; Watanabe, D.; Watanabe, K.; Watanabe, Y.; Wei, F.; Wei, R.; Wessels, J.; White, S. N.; Winter, D.; Woody, C. L.; Wright, R. M.; Wysocki, M.; Yamaguchi, Y. L.; Yamaura, K.; Yang, R.; Yanovich, A.; Ying, J.; Yokkaichi, S.; You, Z.; Young, G. R.; Younus, I.; Yushmanov, I. E.; Zajc, W. A.; Zhou, S.; Collaboration, PHENIX

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Author(s): Show less -	Adare, A. ^[1] ; Aidala, C. ^{[2, 3]} ; Ajitanand, N. N. ^[4] ; Akiba, Y. ^{[5, 6]} ; Al-Bataineh, H. ^[7] ; Alexander, J. ^[4] ; Angerami, A. ^{[8, 9]} ; Aoki, K. ^{[5, 10]} ; Apadula, N. ^{[11, 12]} ; Aramaki, Y. ^{[5, 13]} ; Atomssa, E. T. ^[14] ; Averbeck, R. ^[11] ; Awes, T. C. ^[15] ; Azmoun, B. ^[16] ; Babintsev, V. ^[17] ; Bai, M. ^[18] ; Baksay, G. ^[19] ; Baksay, L. ^[19] ; Barish, K. N. ^[20] ; Bassalleck, B. ^[21] ; Basye, A. T. ^[22] ; Bathe, S. ^{[20, 23, 6]} ; Baublis, V. ^[24] ; Baumann, C. ^[25] ; Bazilevsky, A. ^[16] ; Belikov, S. ^[16] ; Belmont, R. ^[26] ; Bennett, R. ^[11] ; Bhom, J. H. ^[27] ; Blau, D. S. ^[28] ; Bok, J. S. ^[27] ; Boyle, K. ^[11] ; Brooks, M. L. ^[29] ; Buesching, H. ^[16] ; Bumazhnov, V. ^[17] ; Bunce, G. ^{[16, 6]} ; Butsyk, S. ^[29] ; Campbell, S. ^[11] ; Caringi, A. ^[30] ; Chen, C. -H. ^[11] ; Chi, C. Y. ^{[8, 9]} ; Chiu, M. ^[16] ; Choi, I. J. ^[27] ; Choi, J. B. ^[31] ; Choudhury, R. K. ^[32] ; Christiansen, P. ^[33] ; Chujo, T. ^[34] ; Chung, P. ^[4] ; Chvala, O. ^[20] ; Cianciolo, V. ^[15] ; Citron, Z. ^[11] ; Cole, B. A. ^{[8, 9]} ; del Valle, Z. Conesa ^[14] ; Connors, M. ^[11] ; Csanad, M. ^[35] ; Csoergo, T. ^[36] ; Dahms, T. ^[11] ; Dairaku, S. ^{[5, 10]} ; Danchev, I. ^[26] ; Das, K. ^[37] ; Datta, A. ^[3] ; David, G. ^[16] ; Dayananda, M. K. ^[38] ; Denisov, A. ^[17] ; Deshpande, A. ^{[11, 6]} ; Desmond, E. J. ^[16] ; Dharmawardane, K. V. ^[7] ; Dietzsch, O. ^[39] ; Dion, A. ^{[11, 12]} ; Donadelli, M. ^[39] ; Drapier, O. ^[14] ; Drees, A. ^[11] ; Drees, K. A. ^[18] ; Durham, J. M. ^{[11, 29]} ; Durum, A. ^[17] ; Dutta, D. ^[32] ; D'Orazio, L. ^[40] ; Edwards, S. ^[37] ; Efremenko, Y. V. ^[15] ; Ellinghaus, F. ^[1] ; Engelmore, T. ^{[8, 9]} ; Enokizono, A. ^[15] ; En'yo, H. ^{[5, 6]} ; Esumi, S. ^[34] ; Fadem, B. ^[30] ; Fields, D. E. ^[21] ; Finger, M. ^[41] ; Finger, Jr., M. ^[41] ; Fleuret, F. ^[14] ; Fokin, S. L. ^[28] ; Fraenkel, Z. ^[42] ; Frantz, J. E. ^{[11, 43]} ; Franz, A. ^[16] ; Frawley, A. D. ^[37] ; Fujiwara, K. ^[5] ; Fukao, Y. ^[5] ; Fusayasu, T. ^[44] ; Garishvili, I. ^[45] ; Glenn, A. ^[46] ; Gong, H. ^[11] ; Gonin, M. ^[14] ; Goto, Y. ^{[5, 6]} ; de Cassagnac, R. Granier ^[14] ; Grau, N. ^{[8, 9, 47]} ; Greene, S. V. ^[26] ; Grim, G. ^[29] ; Perdekamp, M. Grosse ^[48] ; Gunji, T. ^[13] ; Gustafsson, H. -A . ^[33] ; Haggerty, J. S. ^[16] ; Hahn, K. I. ^[49] ; Hamagaki, H. ^[13] ; Hamblen, J. ^[45] ; Han, R. ^[50] ; Hanks, J. ^{[8, 9]} ; Haslum, E. ^[33] ; Hayano, R. ^[13] ; He, X. ^[38] ; Heffner, M. ^[46] ; Hemmick, T. K. ^[11] ; Hester, T. ^[20] ; Hill, J. C. ^[12] ; Hohlmann, M. ^[19] ; Holzmann, W. ^{[8, 9]} ; Homma, K. ^[51] ; Hong, B. ^[52] ; Horaguchi, T. ^[51] ; Hornback, D. ^[45] ; Huang, S. ^[26] ; Ichihara, T. ^{[5, 6]} ; Ichimiya, R. ^[5] ; Ikeda, Y. ^[34] ; Imai, K. ^{[5, 10, 53]} ; Inaba, M. ^[34] ; Isenhower, D. ^[22] ; Ishihara, M. ^[5] ; Issah, M. ^[26] ; Ivanischev, D. ^[24] ; Iwanaga, Y. ^[51] ; Jacak, B. V. ^[11] ; Jia, J. ^{[16, 4]} ; Jiang, X. ^[29] ; Jin, J. ^{[8, 9]} ; Johnson, B. M. ^[16] ; Jones, T. ^[22] ; Joo, K. S. ^[54] ; Jouan, D. ^[55] ; Jumper, D. S. ^[22] ; Kajihara, F. ^[13] ; Kamin, J. ^[11] ; Kang, J. H. ^[27] ; Kapustinsky, J. ^[29] ; Karatsu, K. ^{[5, 10]} ; Kasai, M. ^{[5, 56]} ; Kawall, D. ^{[3, 6]} ; Kawashima, M. ^{[5, 56]} ; Kazantsev, A. V. ^[28] ; Kempel, T. ^[12] ; Khanzadeev, A. ^[24] ; Kijima, K. M. ^[51] ; Kikuchi, J. ^[57] ; Kim, A. ^[49] ; Kim, B. I. ^[52] ; Kim, D. J. ^{[58, 59]} ; Kim, E. -J. ^[31] ; Kim, Y. -J. ^[48] ; Kinney, E. ^[1] ; Kiss, A. ^[35] ; Kistenev, E. ^[16] ; Kleinjan, D. ^[20] ; Kochenda, L. ^[24] ; Komkov, B. ^[24] ; Konno, M. ^[34] ; Koster, J. ^[48] ; Kral, A. ^[60] ; Kravitz, A. ^{[8, 9]} ; Kunde, G. J. ^[29] ; Kurita, K. ^{[5, 56]} ; Kurosawa, M. ^[5] ; Kwon, Y. ^[27] ; Kyle, G. S. ^[7] ; Lacey, R. ^[4] ; Lai, Y. S. ^{[8, 9]} ; Lajoie, J. G. ^[12] ; Lebedev, A. ^[12] ; Lee, D. M. ^[29] ; Lee, J. ^[49] ; Lee, K. B. ^[52] ; Lee, K. S. ^[52] ; Leitch, M. J. ^[29] ; Leite, M. A. L. ^[39] ; Li, X. ^[61] ; Lichtenwalner, P. ^[30] ; Liebing, P. ^[6] ; Levy, L. A. Linden ^[1] ; Liska, T. ^[60] ; Liu, H. ^[29] ; Liu, M. X. ^[29] ; Love, B. ^[26] ; Lynch, D. ^[16] ; Maguire, C. F. ^[26] ; Makdisi, Y. I. ^[18] ; Malik, M. D. ^[21] ; Manko, V. I. ^[28] ; Mannel, E. ^{[8, 9]} ; Mao, Y. ^{[5, 50]} ; Masui, H. ^[34] ; Matathias, F. ^{[8, 9]} ; McCumber, M. ^[11] ; McGaughey, P. L. ^[29] ; McGlinchey, D. ^{[1, 37]} ; Means, N. ^[11] ; Meredith, B. ^[48] ; Miake, Y. ^[34] ; Mibe, T. ^[62] ; Mignerey, A. C. ^[40] ; Miki, K. ^{[5, 34]} ; Milov, A. ^[16] ; Mitchell, J. T. ^[16] ; Mohanty, A. K. ^[32] ; Moon, H. J. ^[54] ; Morino, Y. ^[13] ; Morreale, A. ^[20] ; Morrison, D. P. ^[16] ; Moukhanova, T. V. ^[28] ; Murakami, T. ^[10] ; Murata, J. ^{[5, 56]} ; Nagamiya, S. ^[62] ; Nagle, J. L. ^[1] ; Naglis, M. ^[42] ; Nagy, M. I. ^[36] ; Nakagawa, I. ^{[5, 6]} ; Nakamiya, Y. ^[51] ; Nakamura, K. R. ^{[5, 10]} ; Nakamura, T. ; Nakano, K. ^[5] ; Nam, S. ^[49] ; Newby, J. ^[46] ; Nguyen, M. ^[11] ; Nihashi, M. ^[51] ; Nouicer, R. ^[16] ; Nyanin, A. S. ^[28] ; Oakley, C. ^[38] ; O'Brien, E. ^[16] ; Oda, S. X. ^[13] ; Ogilvie, C. A. ^[12] ; Oka, M. ^[34] ; Okada, K. ^[6] ; Onuki, Y. ^[5] ; Koop, J. D. Orjuela ^[1] ; Oskarsson, A. ^[33] ; Ouchida, M. ^{[5, 51]} ; Ozawa, K. ^[13] ; Pak, R. ^[16] ; Pantuev, V. ^{[11, 63]} ; Papavassiliou, V. ^[7] ; Park, I. H. ^[49] ; Park, S. K. ^[52] ; Park, W. J. ^[52] ; Pate, S. F. ^[7] ; Pei, H. ^[12] ; Peng, J. -C. ^[48] ; Pereira, H. ^[64] ; Perepelitsa, D. ^{[8, 9]} ; Peressounko, D. Yu. ^[28] ; Petti, R. ^[11] ; Pinkenburg, C. ^[16] ; Pisani, R. P. ^[16] ; Proissl, M. ^[11] ; Purschke, M. L. ^[16] ; Qu, H. ^[38] ; Rak, J. ^{[58, 59]} ; Ravinovich, I. ^[42] ; Read, K. F. ^{[15, 45]} ; Rembeczki, S. ^[19] ; Reygers, K. ^[25] ; Riabov, V. ^[24] ; Riabov, Y. ^[24] ; Richardson, E. ^[40] ; Roach, D. ^[26] ; Roche, G. ^[65] ; Rolnick, S. D. ^[20] ; Rosati, M. ^[12] ; Rosen, C. A. ^[1] ; Rosendahl, S. S. E. ^[33] ; Ruzicka, P. ^[66] ; Sahlmueller, B. ^{[11, 25]} ; Saito, N. ^[62] ; Sakaguchi, T. ^[16] ; Sakashita, K. ^{[5, 67]} ; Samsonov, V. ^[24] ; Sano, S. ^{[57, 13]} ; Sato, T. ^[34] ; Sawada, S. ^[62] ; Sedgwick, K. ^[20] ; Seele, J. ^[1] ; Seidl, R. ^{[48, 6]} ; Seto, R. ^[20] ; Sharma, D. ^[42] ; Shein, I. ^[17] ; Shibata, T. -A. ^{[5, 67]} ; Shigaki, K. ^[51] ; Shimomura, M. ^[34] ; Shoji, K. ^{[5, 10]} ; Shukla, P. ^[32] ; Sickles, A. ^[16] ; Silva, C. L. ^[12] ; Silvermyr, D. ^[15] ; Silvestre, C. ^[64] ; Sim, K. S. ^[52] ; Singh, B. K. ^[68] ; Singh, C. P. ^[68] ; Singh, V. ^[68] ; Slunecka, M. ^[41] ; Soltz, R. A. ^[46] ; Sondheim, W. E. ^[29] ; Sorensen, S. P. ^[45] ; Sourikova, I. V. ^[16] ; Stankus, P. W. ^[15] ; Stenlund, E. ^[33] ; Stoll, S. P. ^[16] ; Sugitate, T. ^[51] ; Sukhanov, A. ^[16] ; Sziklai, J. ^[36] ; Takagui, E. M. ^[39] ; Taketani, A. ^{[5, 6]} ; Tanabe, R. ^[34] ; Tanaka, Y. ^[44] ; Taneja, S. ^[11] ; Tanida, K. ^{[5, 10, 6]} ; Tannenbaum, M. J. ^[16] ; Tarafdar, S. ^[68] ; Taranenko, A. ^[4] ; Themann, H. ^[11] ; Thomas, D. ^[22] ; Thomas, T. L. ^[21] ; Togawa, M. ^[6] ; Toia, A. ^[11] ; Tomasek, L. ^[66] ; Torii, H. ^[51] ; Towell, R. S. ^[22] ; Tserruya, I. ^[42] ; Tsuchimoto, Y. ^[51] ; Vale, C. ^[16] ; Valle, H. ^[26] ; van Hecke, H. W. ^[29] ; Vazquez-Zambrano, E. ^{[8, 9]} ; Veicht, A. ^[48] ; Velkovska, J. ^[26] ; Vertesi, R. ^[36] ; Virius, M. ^[60] ; Vrba, V. ^[66] ; Vznuzdaev, E. ^[24] ; Wang, X. R. ^[7] ; Watanabe, D. ^[51] ; Watanabe, K. ^[34] ; Watanabe, Y. ^{[5, 6]} ; Wei, F. ^[12] ; Wei, R. ^[4] ; Wessels, J. ^[25] ; White, S. N. ^[16] ; Winter, D. ^{[8, 9]} ; Woody, C. L. ^[16] ; Wright, R. M. ^[22] ; Wysocki, M. ^[1] ; Yamaguchi, Y. L. ^{[5, 13]} ; Yamaura, K. ^[51] ; Yang, R. ^[48] ; Yanovich, A. ^[17] ; Ying, J. ^[38] ; Yokkaichi, S. ^{[5, 6]} ; You, Z. ^[50] ; Young, G. R. ^[15] ; Younus, I. ^{[21, 69]} ; Yushmanov, I. E. ^[28] ; Zajc, W. A. ^{[8, 9]} ; Zhou, S. ^[61] ; Collaboration, PHENIX Total Authors: 378
Affiliation: Show less -	^[1] Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309 - USA ^[2] Univ Michigan, Dept Phys, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 - USA ^[3] Univ Massachusetts, Dept Phys, Amherst, MA 01003 - USA ^[4] SUNY Stony Brook, Dept Chem, Stony Brook, NY 11794 - USA ^[5] RIKEN, Nishina Ctr Accelerator Based Sci, Wako, Saitama 3510198 - Japan ^[6] Brookhaven Natl Lab, RIKEN BNL Res Ctr, Upton, NY 11973 - USA ^[7] New Mexico State Univ, Las Cruces, NM 88003 - USA ^[8] Columbia Univ, New York, NY 10027 - USA ^[9] Nevis Labs, Irvington, NY 10533 - USA ^[10] Kyoto Univ, Kyoto 6068502 - Japan ^[11] SUNY Stony Brook, Dept Phys & Astron, Stony Brook, NY 11794 - USA ^[12] Iowa State Univ, Ames, IA 50011 - USA ^[13] Univ Tokyo, Grad Sch Sci, Ctr Nucl Study, Bunkyo Ku, Tokyo 1130033 - Japan ^[14] Ecole Polytech, CNRS, IN2P3, Lab Leprince Ringuet, F-91128 Palaiseau - France ^[15] Oak Ridge Natl Lab, Oak Ridge, TN 37831 - USA ^[16] Brookhaven Natl Lab, Dept Phys, Upton, NY 11973 - USA ^[17] State Res Ctr Russian Federat, Inst High Energy Phys, IHEP Protvino, Protvino 142281 - Russia ^[18] Brookhaven Natl Lab, Collider Accelerator Dept, Upton, NY 11973 - USA ^[19] Florida Inst Technol, Melbourne, FL 32901 - USA ^[20] Univ Calif Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521 - USA ^[21] Univ New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131 - USA ^[22] Abilene Christian Univ, Abilene, TX 79699 - USA ^[23] CUNY, Baruch Coll, New York, NY 10010 - USA ^[24] Petersburg Nucl Phys Inst, Gatchina 188300, Leningrad Regio - Russia ^[25] Univ Munster, Inst Kernphys, D-48149 Munster - Germany ^[26] Vanderbilt Univ, Nashville, TN 37235 - USA ^[27] Yonsei Univ, Seoul 120749 - South Korea ^[28] Russian Res Ctr, Kurchatov Inst, Moscow 123098 - Russia ^[29] Los Alamos Natl Lab, Los Alamos, NM 87545 - USA ^[30] Muhlenberg Coll, Allentown, PA 18104 - USA ^[31] Chonbuk Natl Univ, Jeonju 561756 - South Korea ^[32] Bhabha Atom Res Ctr, Bombay 400085, Maharashtra - India ^[33] Lund Univ, Dept Phys, SE-22100 Lund - Sweden ^[34] Univ Tsukuba, Inst Phys, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305 - Japan ^[35] Eotvos Lorand Univ, ELTE, H-1117 Budapest - Hungary ^[36] Hungarian Acad Sci, Wigner Res Ctr Phys, Inst Particle & Nucl Phys, Wigner RCP, RMKI, H-1525 Budapest - Hungary ^[37] Florida State Univ, Tallahassee, FL 32306 - USA ^[38] Georgia State Univ, Atlanta, GA 30303 - USA ^[39] Univ Sao Paulo, Inst Fis, BR-05315970 Sao Paulo - Brazil ^[40] Univ Maryland, College Pk, MD 20742 - USA ^[41] Charles Univ Prague, CR-11636 Prague - Czech Republic ^[42] Weizmann Inst Sci, IL-76100 Rehovot - Israel ^[43] Ohio Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, Athens, OH 45701 - USA ^[44] Nagasaki Inst Appl Sci, Nagasaki 8510193 - Japan ^[45] Univ Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996 - USA ^[46] Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab, Livermore, CA 94550 - USA ^[47] Augustana Coll, Dept Phys, Sioux Falls, SD 57197 - USA ^[48] Univ Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801 - USA ^[49] Ewha Womans Univ, Seoul 120750 - South Korea ^[50] Peking Univ, Beijing 100871 - Peoples R China ^[51] Hiroshima Univ, Higashihiroshima 7398526 - Japan ^[52] Korea Univ, Seoul 136701 - South Korea ^[53] Japan Atom Energy Agcy, Adv Sci Res Ctr, Ibaraki 3191195 - Japan ^[54] Myongji Univ, Yongin 449728, Kyonggido - South Korea ^[55] Univ Paris 11, CNRS, IN2P3, IPN Orsay, F-91406 Orsay - France ^[56] Rikkyo Univ, Dept Phys, Tokyo 1718501 - Japan ^[57] Waseda Univ, Adv Res Inst Sci & Engn, Shinjuku Ku, Tokyo 1620044 - Japan ^[58] Helsinki Inst Phys, FI-40014 Jyvaskyla - Finland ^[59] Univ Jyvaskyla, FI-40014 Jyvaskyla - Finland ^[60] Czech Tech Univ, Prague 16636 6 - Czech Republic ^[61] China Inst Atom Energy, Sci & Technol Nucl Data Lab, Beijing 102413 - Peoples R China ^[62] High Energy Accelerator Org, KEK, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 3050801 - Japan ^[63] Russian Acad Sci, Inst Nucl Res, Moscow 117312 - Russia ^[64] CEA Saclay, Dapnia, F-91191 Gif Sur Yvette - France ^[65] Univ Clermont Ferrand, CNRS, IN2P3, LPC, F-63177 Clermont Ferrand - France ^[66] Acad Sci Czech Republic, Inst Phys, Prague 18221 8 - Czech Republic ^[67] Tokyo Inst Technol, Dept Phys, Tokyo 1528551 - Japan ^[68] Banaras Hindu Univ, Dept Phys, Varanasi 221005, Uttar Pradesh - India ^[69] Lahore Univ Management Sci, Dept Phys, Lahore 54792 - Pakistan Total Affiliations: 69
Document type:	Journal article
Source:	Physical Review C; v. 90, n. 3 SEP 5 2014.
Web of Science Citations:	45
Abstract
High-energy proton- and deuteron-nucleus collisions provide an excellent tool for studying a wide array of physics effects, including modifications of parton distribution functions in nuclei, gluon saturation, and color neutralization and hadronization in a nuclear environment, among others. All of these effects are expected to have a significant dependence on the size of the nuclear target and the impact parameter of the collision, also known as the collision centrality. In this article, we detail a method for determining centrality classes in p(d) + A collisions via cuts on the multiplicity at backward rapidity (i.e., the nucleus-going direction) and for determining systematic uncertainties in this procedure. For d + Au collisions at root s(NN) = 200 GeV we find that the connection to geometry is confirmed by measuring the fraction of events in which a neutron from the deuteron does not interact with the nucleus. As an application, we consider the nuclear modification factors Rp(d)+A, for which there is a bias in the measured centrality-dependent yields owing to auto correlations between the process of interest and the backward-rapidity multiplicity. We determine the bias-correction factors within this framework. This method is further tested using the HIJING Monte Carlo generator. We find that for d + Au collisions at root s(NN) = 200 GeV, these bias corrections are small and vary by less than 5% (10%) up to p(T) = 10 (20) GeV/c. In contrast, for p + Pb collisions at v root s(NN) = 5.02 TeV we find that these bias factors are an order of magnitude larger and strongly pT dependent, likely attributable to the larger effect of multiparton interactions. (AU)

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