Rapidity and centrality dependence of azimuthal correlations in high energy d+Au collisions

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Tuchin, Kirill
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We discuss azimuthal correlations in dAu collisions at different rapidities and centralities and argue that experimentally observed depletion of the back-to-back correlation peak can be quantitatively explained by gluon saturation in the Color Glass Condensate of the gold nucleus.
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NOTICE: This is the author's version of a work that was accepted for publication in Nuclear Physics A. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Nuclear Physics A, v.855 (2011), doi: 10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2011.02.116.
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http://doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2011.02.116
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CGC, particle correlations, relativistic heavy ion collisions
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