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在LHC上测试pA碰撞中的因式分解

Testing factorization in pA collisions at the LHC

Paloma Quiroga-Arias, José Guilherme Milhano, Urs Achim Wiedemann

摘要:

基于e-p实验和强子对撞机实验的大数据集的整体微扰QCD分析,对质子中的部分子分布函数(PDF)提供了严格的约束。近年来,将这些分析扩展到核部分子分布(nPDF)引起了人们的极大兴趣。nPDF需要作为基准的热QCD物质在核-核碰撞的表征,并吸引进一步的兴趣,因为它们可能会显示新的签名的非线性密度依赖QCD演化。然而,它是不知道从第一原理是否因式分解的长程现象到过程无关的部分子分布,这是全球PDF提取的质子,延伸到核效应。因此,评估基准计算的nPDF的可靠性超出了测试其提取的数值准确性,并需要因式分解假设的现象学测试。在这里,我们认为,在大型强子对撞机的质子核碰撞计划,包括快度扫描,将提供一组测量允许的因子分解假设的基础上全球nPDF拟合前所未有的测试。

英文摘要:

Global perturbative QCD analyses, based on large data sets from e-p and hadron collider experiments, provide tight constraints on the parton distribution function (PDF) in the proton. The extension of these analyses to nuclear parton distributions (nPDF) has attracted much interest in recent years. nPDFs are needed as benchmarks for the characterization of hot QCD matter in nucleus-nucleus collisions, and attract further interest since they may show novel signatures of non-linear density-dependent QCD evolution. However, it is not known from first principles whether the factorization of long-range phenomena into process-independent parton distribution, which underlies global PDF extractions for the proton, extends to nuclear effects. As a consequence, assessing the reliability of nPDFs for benchmark calculations goes beyond testing the numerical accuracy of their extraction and requires phenomenological tests of the factorization assumption. Here we argue that a proton-nucleus collision programme at the LHC, including a rapidity scan, would provide a set of measurements allowing for unprecedented tests of the factorization assumption underlying global nPDF fits.

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