Published January 19, 2006 | Version v1
Journal article

Coherent QCD multiple scattering in proton-nucleus collisions

  • 1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011 (United States)
  • 2. Los Alamos National Laboratory, Theory Division and Physics Division, Los Alamos, NM 87545 (United States)

Description

We argue that high energy proton-nucleus (p + A) collisions provide an excellent laboratory for studying nuclear size enhanced parton multiple scattering where power corrections to the leading twist perturbative QCD factorization approach can be systematically computed. We identify and resum these corrections and calculate the centrality- and rapidity-dependent nuclear suppression of single and double inclusive hadron production at moderate transverse momenta. We demonstrate that both spectra and dihadron correlations in p + A reactions are sensitive measures of such dynamical nuclear attenuation effects

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physletb.2005.10.073;
arXiv
arXiv:hep-ph/0405068v2;
PII
S0370-2693(05)01578-9;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics Letters. Section B
Journal Volume
632
Journal Issue
4
Journal Page Range
p. 507-511
ISSN
0370-2693
CODEN
PYLBAJ

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Copyright
Copyright (c) 2005 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.