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Forward Heavy Quarkonium Productions at the LHC

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-12-23 v3 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We investigate the low transverse momentum heavy quarkonium (J/ψJ/\psi, Υ\Upsilon) productions in the forward rapidity region of pppp and pApA collisions at the LHC as an important probe to the transverse momentum tomography of the gluons in hadrons in the Color Glass Condensate (CGC) framework. By implementing the Sudakov resummation consistently in the CGC formalism, we achieve an excellent agreement between the improved CGC calculations and the LHC data. We show that both the small-xx and the Sudakov effects are essential for a complete description of heavy quarkonium productions in the low transverse momentum region. This provides a solid foundation to study the small-xx gluon saturation in a big nucleus with the future pApA programs at the LHC.

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@article{arxiv.1507.06564,
  title  = {Forward Heavy Quarkonium Productions at the LHC},
  author = {Kazuhiro Watanabe and Bo-Wen Xiao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1507.06564},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

5 pages, 3 figures; some corrections