We demonstrate that underlying assumptions concerning the structure of constituent parton Fock states in hadrons make a strong impact on the predictions of hadronic interaction models for forward hadron spectra and for long-range correlations between central and forward hadron production. Our analysis shows that combined studies of proton-proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider by central and forward-looking detectors have a rich potential for discriminating between the main model approaches.
@article{arxiv.1608.07791,
title = {Constraining high energy interaction mechanisms by studying forward hadron production at the LHC},
author = {S. Ostapchenko and M. Bleicher and T. Pierog and K. Werner},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.07791},
year = {2016}
}