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Initial and Final State Interaction Effects in Small-x Quark Distributions

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2010-12-24 v1 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We study the initial and final state interaction effects in the transverse momentum dependent parton distributions in the small-xx saturation region. In particular, we discuss the quark distributions in the semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering, Drell-Yan lepton pair production and dijet-correlation processes in pApA collisions. We calculate the quark distributions in the scalar-QED model and then extend to the color glass condensate formalism in QCD. The quark distributions are found universal between the DIS and Drell-Yan processes. On the other hand, the quark distribution from the qqqqqq'\to qq' channel contribution to the dijet-correlation process is not universal. However, we find that it can be related to the quark distribution in DIS process by a convolution with the normalized unintegrated gluon distribution in the color glass condensate formalism in the large NcN_c limit.

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@article{arxiv.1008.4432,
  title  = {Initial and Final State Interaction Effects in Small-x Quark Distributions},
  author = {Bo-Wen Xiao and Feng Yuan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1008.4432},
  year   = {2010}
}

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20 pages, 6 figures

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