| Issue |
EPJ Web Conf.
Volume 164, 2017
5th International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics
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| Article Number | 07057 | |
| Number of page(s) | 7 | |
| Section | Parallel | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201716407057 | |
| Published online | 05 December 2017 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201716407057
ϕ Meson Production at Forward Rapidity with the PHENIX Detector at RHIC
Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia 30303, USA
a e-mail: msar@gsu.edu
Published online: 5 December 2017
The ϕ meson production in p+p collisions is an important tool to study QCD, providing data to tune phenomenological QCD models, while in high-energy heavy-ion collisions it provides key information on the hot and dense state of the strongly interacting matter produced in such collisions. It is sensitive to the medium-induced effects such as strangeness enhancement, a phenomenon associated with soft particles in bulk matter. Measurements in the dilepton channels are especially interesting since leptons interact only electromagnetically, thus carrying the information from their production phase directly to the detector. Measurements in different nucleus-nucleus collisions allow us to perform a systematic study of the nuclear medium effects on ϕ meson production. The PHENIX detector provides the capabilities to measure the ϕ meson production in a wide range of transverse momentum and rapidity to study various cold nuclear effects such as soft multiple parton rescattering and modification of the parton distribution functions in nuclei.
In this proceeding, we report the most recent PHENIX results on ϕ meson production in p+p, d+Au and Cu+Au collisions.
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