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A Proposal for the Muon Piston Calorimeter Extension (MPC-EX) to the PHENIX Experiment at RHIC

S. Campbell·R. Hollis·A. Iordanova·E. Kistenev·X. Jiang·Y. Kwon·J. Lajoie·J. Perry·R. Seto·A. Sukhanov·A. Timilsina
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The PHENIX MPC-EX detector is a Si-W preshower extension to the existing PHENIX Muon Piston Calorimeters (MPC). The MPC-EX will consist of eight layers of alternating W absorber and Si mini-pad sensors and will be installed in time for RHIC Run-15. Covering a large pseudorapidity range, 3.1 < eta < 3.8, the MPC-EX and MPC access high-x partons in the projectile nucleon (and low-x partons in the target nucleon) in p+A and transversely polarized proton-proton collisions at 200 GeV. With the addition of the MPC-EX, the neutral pion reconstruction range extends to energies > 80 GeV, a factor of four improvement over current capabilities. Not only will the MPC-EX strengthen PHENIX's existing forward neutral pion and jet measurements, it also provides the necessary neutral pion rejection to make a prompt photon measurement feasible in both p+A and p+p collisions. With this neutral pion rejection, prompt (direct + fragmentation) photon yields at high p_T, p_T > 3 GeV, can be statistically extracted using a double ratio method. In p+A collisions direct photons at forward rapidities are optimally sensitive to the gluon distribution because, unlike pions, direct photons are only produced by processes that are directly sensitive to the gluon distribution at leading order. A measurement of the forward prompt photon R_pA will cleanly access and greatly expand our understanding of the gluon nuclear parton distribution functions and provide important information about the initial state in heavy ion collisions. In transversely polarized p+p collisions the MPC-EX will make possible a measurement of the prompt photon single spin asymmetry A_N, and will help elucidate the correlation of valence partons in the proton with the proton spin.

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S. Campbell, R. Hollis, A. Iordanova, E. Kistenev, X. Jiang, Y. Kwon, J. Lajoie, J. Perry, R. Seto, A. Sukhanov, A. Timilsina. 2013-01-07. A Proposal for the Muon Piston Calorimeter Extension (MPC-EX) to the PHENIX Experiment at RHIC. https://arxiv.org/abs/1301.1096

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