. "Centrality categorization for R p(d)+A in high-energy collisions" . "6468" . . . "Aidala, C." . . "High-energy proton- and deuteron-nucleus collisions provide an excellent tool for studying a wide array of physics effects, including modifications of parton distribution functions in nuclei, gluon saturation, and color neutralization and hadronization in a nuclear environment, among others. All of these effects are expected to have a significant dependence on the size of the nuclear target and the impact parameter of the collision, also known as the collision centrality. In this article, we detail a method for determining centrality classes in p(d) + A collisions via cuts on the multiplicity at backward rapidity (i.e., the nucleus-going direction) and for determining systematic uncertainties in this procedure. For d + Au collisions at root s(NN) = 200 GeV we find that the connection to geometry is confirmed by measuring the fraction of events in which a neutron from the deuteron does not interact with the nucleus. As an application, we consider the nuclear modification factors Rp(d)+A, for which there is a bias in the measured centrality-dependent yields owing to auto correlations between the process of interest and the backward-rapidity multiplicity. We determine the bias-correction factors within this framework. This method is further tested using the HIJING Monte Carlo generator. We find that for d + Au collisions at root s(NN) = 200 GeV, these bias corrections are small and vary by less than 5% (10%) up to p(T) = 10 (20) GeV/c. In contrast, for p + Pb collisions at v root s(NN) = 5.02 TeV we find that these bias factors are an order of magnitude larger and strongly pT dependent, likely attributable to the larger effect of multiparton interactions."@en . . . "High-energy proton- and deuteron-nucleus collisions provide an excellent tool for studying a wide array of physics effects, including modifications of parton distribution functions in nuclei, gluon saturation, and color neutralization and hadronization in a nuclear environment, among others. All of these effects are expected to have a significant dependence on the size of the nuclear target and the impact parameter of the collision, also known as the collision centrality. In this article, we detail a method for determining centrality classes in p(d) + A collisions via cuts on the multiplicity at backward rapidity (i.e., the nucleus-going direction) and for determining systematic uncertainties in this procedure. For d + Au collisions at root s(NN) = 200 GeV we find that the connection to geometry is confirmed by measuring the fraction of events in which a neutron from the deuteron does not interact with the nucleus. As an application, we consider the nuclear modification factors Rp(d)+A, for which there is a bias in the measured centrality-dependent yields owing to auto correlations between the process of interest and the backward-rapidity multiplicity. We determine the bias-correction factors within this framework. This method is further tested using the HIJING Monte Carlo generator. We find that for d + Au collisions at root s(NN) = 200 GeV, these bias corrections are small and vary by less than 5% (10%) up to p(T) = 10 (20) GeV/c. In contrast, for p + Pb collisions at v root s(NN) = 5.02 TeV we find that these bias factors are an order of magnitude larger and strongly pT dependent, likely attributable to the larger effect of multiparton interactions." . . . "Physical Review C" . "Centrality categorization for R p(d)+A in high-energy collisions"@en . "21340" . . "Centrality categorization for R p(d)+A in high-energy collisions"@en . . . . "Centrality categorization for R p(d)+A in high-energy collisions" . . "3" . . "Vrba, V\u00E1clav" . "US - Spojen\u00E9 st\u00E1ty americk\u00E9" . "Virius, Miroslav" . . . . . . . "p + Pb collision; RHIC; PHENIX; deuteron-nucleus collisions; parton distribution function; gluon saturation; d + Au collision; KeyWords Plus:MULTIPLICITY DISTRIBUTIONS; ANGULAR-CORRELATIONS; NUCLEAR COLLISIONS; LONG-RANGE; TEV; PARTON; SCATTERING"@en . . "Adare, A." . "RIV/68407700:21340/14:00220137" . "000341261600002" . "0556-2813" . . "[CB8CD2909AFF]" . "17"^^ . . . "Li\u0161ka, Tom\u00E1\u0161" . "377"^^ . . "90" . . "RIV/68407700:21340/14:00220137!RIV15-MSM-21340___" . . "I, P(LG13031), S" . "2"^^ . "10.1103/PhysRevC.90.034902" . . .