Hadronic resonance production in d+Au collisions at √sNN = 200 GeV at RHIC

Abstract

Quantum chromodynamics (QCD) predicts that hadronic matter at high temperatures and/or high densities undergoes a phase transition to a system of deconfined partonic matter, the Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP) [1]. Matter under such extreme conditions can be studied in the laboratory by colliding nuclei at very high energies. The Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory has provided a variety of collision systems at different beam energies, including collisions of Au+Au, d+Au and p + p at √sNN = 200 GeV.