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Emergence and violation of geometrical scaling in pp collisions

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2013-09-05 v1

Abstract

We argue that geometrical scaling (GS) proposed originally in the context of Deep Inelastic Scattering (DIS) at HERA works also in pp collisions at the LHC energies and in NA61/SHINE experiment. We show that in DIS GS is working up to relatively large Bjorken x0.1x \sim 0.1. As a consequence negative pion multiplicity pTp_{\rm T} distributions at NA61/SHINE energies exhibit GS in mid rapidity region. For y0y \ne 0 clear sign of scaling violations can be seen when one of the colliding partons has Bjorken x0.1x \ge 0.1. Finally, we argue that in the case of identified particles GS scaling is still present but the scaling variable is a function of transverse mass rather than pTp_{\rm T}.

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@article{arxiv.1309.0933,
  title  = {Emergence and violation of geometrical scaling in pp collisions},
  author = {Michal Praszalowicz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1309.0933},
  year   = {2013}
}

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8 pages, 5 figures, presented at the Low x Workshop, May 30 - June 4 2013, Rehovot and Eilat, Israel