Search results for "high energy proton-nucleus collisions"

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Forward J/ψ production in pA collisions : centrality dependence

2016

The nuclear suppression of forward J/ψ production in high energy proton-nucleus collisions can be used as a probe of gluon saturation at small x. In an earlier work we studied this suppression in minimum bias collisions in the Color Glass Condensate formalism, relying on the optical Glauber model to obtain the dipole cross section of the nucleus from the one of the proton fitted to HERA DIS data. Here we study how the impact parameter dependence of this model can be used to compare our results with recent LHC data on the centrality dependence of this suppression. peerReviewed

high energy proton-nucleus collisionsNuclear Theorynuclear supressionsNuclear Experiment
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Single inclusive hadron production in pA collisions at NLO

2016

We study single inclusive forward hadron production in high energy proton-nucleus collisions at next-to-leading order in the Color Glass Condensate framework. Recent studies have shown that the next-to-leading order corrections to this process are large and negative at large transverse momentum, leading to negative cross sections. We propose to overcome this difficulty by introducing an explicit rapidity factorization scale when subtracting the rapidity divergence into the evolution of the target.

PhysicsParticle physicshadron productionScale (ratio)Nuclear Theoryhigh energy proton-nucleus collisionsHadronFOS: Physical sciencesColor-glass condensateNuclear physicsNuclear Theory (nucl-th)High Energy Physics - PhenomenologyHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)FactorizationTransverse momentumProduction (economics)RapidityDivergence (statistics)Nuclear Experiment
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