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Multiplicity dependent J/ψ and ψ(2S) production at forward and backward rapidity in p+p collisions at s=200  GeV

N. J. Abdulameer14,21, U. Acharya18, C. Aidala40, Y. Akiba54,55,*, M. Alfred20, V. Andrieux40, S. Antsupov57, N. Apadula26, H. Asano32,54 et al. (PHENIX Collaboration)

H. Asano32,54, B. Azmoun7, V. Babintsev22, N. S. Bandara38, E. Bannikov57, K. N. Barish8, S. Bathe5,55, A. Bazilevsky7, M. Beaumier8, R. Belmont11,47, A. Berdnikov57, Y. Berdnikov57, L. Bichon65, B. Blankenship65, D. S. Blau31,44, J. S. Bok46, V. Borisov57, M. L. Brooks34, J. Bryslawskyj5,8, V. Bumazhnov22, S. Campbell12, R. Cervantes60, D. Chen60, M. Chiu7, C. Y. Chi12, I. J. Choi23, J. B. Choi28,†, Z. Citron66, M. Connors18,55, R. Corliss60, N. Cronin60, M. Csanád15, T. Csörgő39,67, T. W. Danley48, M. S. Daugherity1, G. David7,60, K. DeBlasio45, K. Dehmelt60, A. Denisov22, A. Deshpande55,60, E. J. Desmond7, A. Dion60, D. Dixit60, V. Doomra60, J. H. Do68, A. Drees60, K. A. Drees6, J. M. Durham34, A. Durum22, H. En’yo54, A. Enokizono54,56, R. Esha60, B. Fadem42, W. Fan60, N. Feege60, D. E. Fields45, M. Finger, Jr.9, M. Finger9, D. Firak14,60, D. Fitzgerald40, S. L. Fokin31, J. E. Frantz48, A. Franz7, A. D. Frawley17, Y. Fukuda63, P. Gallus13, C. Gal60, P. Garg3,60, H. Ge60, F. Giordano23, Y. Goto54,55, N. Grau2, S. V. Greene65, M. Grosse Perdekamp23, T. Gunji10, T. Guo60, H. Guragain18, T. Hachiya54,55, J. S. Haggerty7, K. I. Hahn16, H. Hamagaki10, H. F. Hamilton1, J. Hanks60, S. Y. Han16,30, S. Hasegawa27, T. O. S. Haseler18, T. K. Hemmick60, X. He18, J. C. Hill26, K. Hill11, A. Hodges18,23, R. S. Hollis8, K. Homma19, B. Hong30, T. Hoshino19, N. Hotvedt26, J. Huang7, K. Imai27, M. Inaba63, A. Iordanova8, D. Isenhower1, D. Ivanishchev52, B. Jacak60, M. Jezghani18, X. Jiang34, Z. Ji60, B. M. Johnson7,18, D. Jouan50, D. S. Jumper23, J. H. Kang68, D. Kapukchyan8, S. Karthas60, D. Kawall38, A. V. Kazantsev31, V. Khachatryan60, A. Khanzadeev52, C. Kim8,30, E.-J. Kim28, M. Kim58, D. Kincses15, E. Kistenev7, J. Klatsky17, P. Kline60, T. Koblesky11, D. Kotov52,57, L. Kovacs15, S. Kudo63, K. Kurita56, Y. Kwon68, J. G. Lajoie26,49, D. Larionova57, A. Lebedev26, S. Lee68, M. J. Leitch34, Y. H. Leung60, X. Li34, S. H. Lim34,53,68, M. X. Liu34, V.-R. Loggins23, S. Lökös67, D. A. Loomis40, K. Lovasz14, D. Lynch7, T. Majoros14, Y. I. Makdisi6, M. Makek69, V. I. Manko31, E. Mannel7, M. McCumber34, P. L. McGaughey34, D. McGlinchey11,34, C. McKinney23, M. Mendoza8, A. C. Mignerey37, A. Milov66, D. K. Mishra4, J. T. Mitchell7, M. Mitrankova57,60, Iu. Mitrankov57,60, G. Mitsuka29,55, S. Miyasaka54,62, S. Mizuno54,63, P. Montuenga23, T. Moon30,68, D. P. Morrison7, B. Mulilo30,54,70, T. Murakami32,54, J. Murata54,56, K. Nagai62, K. Nagashima19, T. Nagashima56, J. L. Nagle11, M. I. Nagy15, I. Nakagawa54,55, K. Nakano54,62, C. Nattrass61, T. Niida63, R. Nouicer7,55, N. Novitzky60, T. Novák39,67, G. Nukazuka54,55, A. S. Nyanin31, E. O’Brien7, C. A. Ogilvie26, J. Oh53, J. D. Orjuela Koop11, M. Orosz14,21, J. D. Osborn40,49, A. Oskarsson35, G. J. Ottino45, K. Ozawa29,63, V. Pantuev24, V. Papavassiliou46, J. S. Park58, S. Park41,54,58,60, M. Patel26, S. F. Pate46, D. V. Perepelitsa7,11, G. D. N. Perera46, D. Yu. Peressounko31, C. E. PerezLara60, J. Perry26, R. Petti7, M. Phipps7,23, C. Pinkenburg7, R. P. Pisani7, M. Potekhin7, M. L. Purschke7, K. F. Read49,61, D. Reynolds59, V. Riabov44,52, Y. Riabov52,57, D. Richford5,64, T. Rinn26, S. D. Rolnick8, M. Rosati26, Z. Rowan5, A. S. Safonov57, T. Sakaguchi7, H. Sako27, V. Samsonov44,52, M. Sarsour18, S. Sato27, B. Schaefer65, B. K. Schmoll61, K. Sedgwick8, R. Seidl54,55, A. Seleznev57, A. Sen26,61, R. Seto8, A. Sexton37, D. Sharma60, I. Shein22, Z. Shi34, T.-A. Shibata54,62, K. Shigaki19, M. Shimomura26,43, T. Shioya63, P. Shukla4, A. Sickles23, C. L. Silva34, D. Silvermyr35, B. K. Singh3, C. P. Singh3,†, V. Singh3, M. Slunečka9, K. L. Smith17,34, M. Snowball34, R. A. Soltz33, W. E. Sondheim34, S. P. Sorensen61, I. V. Sourikova7, P. W. Stankus49, S. P. Stoll7, T. Sugitate19, A. Sukhanov7, T. Sumita54, J. Sun60, Z. Sun14,21,60, J. Sziklai67, K. Tanida27,55,58, M. J. Tannenbaum7, S. Tarafdar65,66, G. Tarnai14, R. Tieulent18,36, A. Timilsina26, T. Todoroki54,55,63, M. Tomášek13, C. L. Towell1, R. S. Towell1, I. Tserruya66, Y. Ueda19, B. Ujvari14,21, H. W. van Hecke34, J. Velkovska65, M. Virius13, V. Vrba13,25, N. Vukman69, X. R. Wang46,55, Y. S. Watanabe10, C. L. Woody7, L. Xue18, C. Xu46, Q. Xu65, S. Yalcin60, Y. L. Yamaguchi60, H. Yamamoto63, A. Yanovich22, I. Yoon58, J. H. Yoo30, I. E. Yushmanov31, H. Yu46,51, W. A. Zajc12, A. Zelenski6, and L. Zou8 (PHENIX Collaboration)

  • 1Abilene Christian University, Abilene, Texas 79699, USA
  • 2Department of Physics, Augustana University, Sioux Falls, South Dakota 57197, USA
  • 3Department of Physics, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi 221005, India
  • 4Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Bombay 400 085, India
  • 5Baruch College, City University of New York, New York, New York, 10010 USA
  • 6Collider-Accelerator Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973-5000, USA
  • 7Physics Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973-5000, USA
  • 8University of California-Riverside, Riverside, California 92521, USA
  • 9Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, 180 00 Troja, Prague, Czech Republic
  • 10Center for Nuclear Study, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
  • 11University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA
  • 12Columbia University, New York, New York 10027 and Nevis Laboratories, Irvington, New York 10533, USA
  • 13Czech Technical University, Zikova 4, 166 36 Prague 6, Czech Republic
  • 14Debrecen University, H-4010 Debrecen, Egyetem tér 1, Hungary
  • 15ELTE, Eötvös Loránd University, H-1117 Budapest, Pázmány P. s. 1/A, Hungary
  • 16Ewha Womans University, Seoul 120-750, Korea
  • 17Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32306, USA
  • 18Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia 30303, USA
  • 19Physics Program and International Institute for Sustainability with Knotted Chiral Meta Matter (WPI-SKCM2), Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, Hiroshima 739-8526, Japan
  • 20Department of Physics and Astronomy, Howard University, Washington, DC 20059, USA
  • 21HUN-REN ATOMKI, H-4026 Debrecen, Bem tér 18/c, Hungary
  • 22IHEP Protvino, State Research Center of Russian Federation, Institute for High Energy Physics, Protvino, 142281, Russia
  • 23University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA
  • 24Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences, prospekt 60-letiya Oktyabrya 7a, Moscow 117312, Russia
  • 25Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Na Slovance 2, 182 21 Prague 8, Czech Republic
  • 26Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA
  • 27Advanced Science Research Center, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, 2-4 Shirakata Shirane, Tokai-mura, Naka-gun, Ibaraki-ken 319-1195, Japan
  • 28Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju, 54896, Korea
  • 29KEK, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0801, Japan
  • 30Korea University, Seoul 02841, Korea
  • 31National Research Center “Kurchatov Institute,” Moscow, 123098 Russia
  • 32Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
  • 33Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
  • 34Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA
  • 35Department of Physics, Lund University, Box 118, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden
  • 36IPNL, CNRS/IN2P3, Université de Lyon, Université Lyon 1, F-69622, Villeurbanne, France
  • 37University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
  • 38Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003-9337, USA
  • 39MATE, Institute of Technology, Laboratory of Femtoscopy, Károly Róbert Campus, H-3200 Gyöngyös, Mátrai út 36, Hungary
  • 40Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1040, USA
  • 41Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, Mississippi 39762, USA
  • 42Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pennsylvania 18104-5586, USA
  • 43Nara Women’s University, Kita-uoya Nishi-machi Nara 630-8506, Japan
  • 44National Research Nuclear University, MEPhI, Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow, 115409, Russia
  • 45University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, USA
  • 46New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico 88003, USA
  • 47Physics and Astronomy Department, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina 27412, USA
  • 48Department of Physics and Astronomy, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio 45701, USA
  • 49Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
  • 50IPN-Orsay, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, BP1, F-91406, Orsay, France
  • 51Peking University, Beijing 100871, People’s Republic of China
  • 52PNPI, Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, Leningrad region, 188300, Russia
  • 53Pusan National University, Pusan 46241, Korea
  • 54RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
  • 55RIKEN BNL Research Center, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973-5000, USA
  • 56Physics Department, Rikkyo University, 3-34-1 Nishi-Ikebukuro, Toshima, Tokyo 171-8501, Japan
  • 57Saint Petersburg State Polytechnic University, St. Petersburg, 195251 Russia
  • 58Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Korea
  • 59Chemistry Department, Stony Brook University, SUNY, Stony Brook, New York 11794-3400, USA
  • 60Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University, SUNY, Stony Brook, New York 11794-3800, USA
  • 61University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
  • 62Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Oh-okayama, Meguro, Tokyo 152-8551, Japan
  • 63Tomonaga Center for the History of the Universe, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305, Japan
  • 64United States Merchant Marine Academy, Kings Point, New York 11024, USA
  • 65Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37235, USA
  • 66Weizmann Institute, Rehovot 76100, Israel
  • 67Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics, HUN-REN Wigner Research Centre for Physics, (HUN-REN Wigner RCP, RMI), H-1525 Budapest 114, POBox 49, Budapest, Hungary
  • 68Yonsei University, IPAP, Seoul 120-749, Korea
  • 69Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Bijenička c. 32 HR-10002 Zagreb, Croatia
  • 70Department of Physics, School of Natural Sciences, University of Zambia, Great East Road Campus, Box 32379, Lusaka, Zambia

  • *PHENIX Spokesperson: akiba@rcf.rhic.bnl.gov
  • †Deceased.

Phys. Rev. D 112, L051103 – Published 29 September, 2025

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/6vqj-wdfr

Abstract

Recent measurements of J/ψ production as a function of event charged-particle multiplicity at the collision energies of both the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) show enhanced J/ψ production yields with increasing multiplicity. One potential explanation for this type of dependence is multiparton interactions (MPI). We present the first study of potential autocorrelations at RHIC energies and forward and backward rapidity of self-normalized J/ψ yields and ψ(2S) to J/ψ ratio, as a function of self-normalized multiplicity in p+p collisions. In addition, detailed pythia studies tuned to RHIC energies were performed to investigate the MPI impacts. We find that the PHENIX data at RHIC are consistent with recent LHC measurements and can only be described by pythia calculations that include MPI effects. The forward and backward ψ(2S) to J/ψ ratio is found to be less dependent on the charged-particle multiplicity.

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