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Gluon recombination in high parton density QCD: inclusive pion production

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v1

Abstract

We argue that the collinear factorization of the fragmentation functions in high energy hadron and nuclei collisions breaks down at transverse momenta kT < Qs/g due to high parton densities in the colliding hadrons and/or nuclei. We calculate, at next-to-leading order in projectile parton density and to all orders in target parton density, the double-inclusive cross section for production of a pair of gluons in the scalar J^(PC)=0^(++) channel. Using the low energy theorems of QCD we find the inclusive cross section for pi-meson production.

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0702208,
  title  = {Gluon recombination in high parton density QCD: inclusive pion production},
  author = {Yang Li and Kirill Tuchin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0702208},
  year   = {2008}
}

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24 pages, 5 figures