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Title: DIFFRACTION DISSOCIATION - 50 YEARS LATER.

Conference ·
OSTI ID:861068

The field of Diffraction Dissociation, which is the subject of this workshop, began 50 years ago with the analysis of deuteron stripping in low energy collisions with nuclei. We return to the subject in a modern context- deuteron dissociation in {radical}s{sub NN} = 200 GeV d-Au collisions recorded during the 2003 RHIC run in the PHENIX experiment. At RHIC energy, d {yields} n+p proceeds predominantly (90%) through Electromagnetic Dissociation and the remaining fraction via the hadronic shadowing described by Glauber. Since the dissociation cross section has a small theoretical error we adopt this process to normalize other cross sections measured in RHIC.

Research Organization:
Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
DOE/SC
DOE Contract Number:
DE-AC02-98CH10886
OSTI ID:
861068
Report Number(s):
BNL-75182-2005-CP; R&D Project: 08872; KB0201021; TRN: US0600244
Resource Relation:
Conference: PROCEEDINGS OF DEEP INELASTIC SCATTERING 2005 CONFERENCE; MADISON, WISCONSIN; 20050427 through 20050501
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English