# XX International Workshop on Deep-Inelastic Scattering and Related Subjects

26-30 March 2012
University of Bonn
Europe/Berlin timezone

## Probing the Low-x Structure of the Nucleus with the PHENIX Detector

27 Mar 2012, 17:10
20m
Lecture Hall, Institute for Applied Physics (University of Bonn)

### Lecture Hall, Institute for Applied Physics

#### University of Bonn

Diffraction and vector mesons

### Speaker

Dr Mickey Chiu (Brookhaven National Lab)

### Description

One of the fundamental goals of the PHENIX experiment is to understand the structure of cold nuclear matter, since this serves as the initial state for heavy-ion collisions. Knowing the initial state is vital for interpreting measurements from heavy-ion collisions. Moreover, the structure of the cold nucleus by itself is interesting since it is a test-bed for our understanding of QCD. In particular there is the possibility of novel QCD effects such as gluon saturation at low-x in the nucleus. At RHIC we can probe the structure of cold nuclear matter using d+Au collisions. We will present measurements of forward di-hadron correlations and inclusive J/Psi production, which seem to show some interesting effects in the cold nucleus, especially as one probes down to Bjorken x of about $10^{-3}$ in the Au nucleus.

### Primary author

Dr Mickey Chiu (Brookhaven National Lab)

### Presentation materials

 Proceedings Slides