Diffractive dissociation in proton-nucleus collisions at collider energies
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2015-06-19 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract
The cross section for the nuclear diffractive dissociation in proton-lead collisions at the LHC is estimated. Based on the current theoretical uncertainties for the single (target) diffactive cross section in hadron-hadron reactions one obtains sigma_SD(5.02 TeV) = 19.67 \pm 5.41 mb and sigma_SD(8.8 TeV) = 18.76 \pm 5.77 mb, respectively. The invariant mass M_X for the reaction pPb -> pX is also analyzed. Discussion is performed on the main theoretical uncertainties associated to the calculations.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.1405.2112,
title = {Diffractive dissociation in proton-nucleus collisions at collider energies},
author = {G. Sampaio dos Santos and M. V. T. Machado},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1405.2112},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
04 pages, 2 figures. Final version to be published in European Physical Journal A - "Hadrons and Nuclei"