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PHYSICAL REVIEW D
Volume 83, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.83.034029
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- DOE [DE-FG02-93ER40771]
- U.S. Department of Energy [DE-AC02-98CH10886]
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We estimate the contributions by double-parton interactions to the cross sections for pp -> pi(0)pi X-0 and dA -> pi(0)pi X-0 at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). We find that such contributions become important at large forward rapidities of the produced pions. This is, in particular, the case for dA scattering, where they strongly enhance the azimuthal-angular independent pedestal component of the cross section, providing a natural explanation of this feature of the RHIC dA data. We argue that the discussed processes open a window to studies of double quark distributions in nucleons. We also briefly address the roles of shadowing and energy loss in dA scattering, which we show to affect the double-inclusive pion cross section much more strongly than the single-inclusive one. We discuss the implications of our results for the interpretation of pion azimuthal correlations.
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