PHENIX MUON ARMS
Example using open heavy flavor production to study gluon shadowing
- Gluon fusion: gg ? (b?b or c?c) followed by (b or c) ? ? X
- Heavy flavor production dominates single muon pT spectrum for pT > 4 GeV/c
- Plot corresponds to 106 s run at 10% of design luminosity for pp collisions
- Similar distributions for p + Au and Au + Au collisions allow this analysis to be performed for heavy ion data, too
Plot provided by M. Brooks, J. Moss (LANL)