Nuclear Gluon Shadowing via Continuum Lepton Pairs in $p+A$ at $\sqrt{s}=200$ AGeV

Abstract

The dilepton spectra from open charm decay in $p+A$ reactions at $\sqrt{s}=200$ AGeV are proposed to constrain gluon shadowing in nuclei. We show that the required measurements are feasible at RHIC.

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