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利用pA碰撞中的光子+重夸克产生探测胶子和重夸克核PDF

Probing gluon and heavy-quark nuclear PDFs with photon + heavy quark production in pA collisions

T. Stavreva, I. Schienbein, F. Arleo, K. Kovarik, F. Olness, J. Y. Yu, J. F. Owens

摘要:

本文详细地研究了在相对论重离子对撞机(RHIC)和大型强子对撞机(LHC)上进行的次领先级pA碰撞中重夸克喷注产生光子的现象。对截面的主要贡献来自胶子-重夸克(gQ)引发的子过程,这使得γ+ Q产生过程对胶子和重夸克部分子分布函数都非常敏感。此外,RHIC和LHC实验正在探测目标部分子携带的动量分数x_2中的互补运动学区域。因此,核产生比R^{γ+Q}_{pA}可以在很宽的x范围内对确定性差的核部分子分布函数提供强有力的约束,而这些分布函数对于解释重离子碰撞的结果是极其重要的。

英文摘要:

We present a detailed phenomenological study of direct photon production in association with a heavy-quark jet in pA collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at next-to-leading order in QCD. The dominant contribution to the cross-section comes from the gluon--heavy-quark (gQ) initiated subprocess, making γ+ Q production a process very sensitive to both the gluon and the heavy-quark parton distribution functions (PDFs). Additionally, the RHIC and LHC experiments are probing complementary kinematic regions in the momentum fraction x_2 carried by the target partons. Thus, the nuclear production ratio R^{γ+Q}_{pA} can provide strong constraints, over a broad x-range, on the poorly determined nuclear parton distribution functions which are extremely important for the interpretation of results in heavy-ion collisions.

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