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Large Rapidity Gap Processes in Proton-Nucleus Collisions

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-11 v1 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

The cross sections for a variety of channels of proton-nucleus interaction associated with large gaps in rapidity are calculated within the Glauber-Gribov theory. We found inelastic shadowing corrections to be dramatically enhanced for such events. We employ the light-cone dipole formalism which allows to calculate the inelastic corrections to all orders of the multiple interaction. Although Gribov corrections are known to make nuclear matter more transparent, we demonstrate that in some instances they lead to an opaqueness. Numerical calculations are performed for the energies of the HERA-B experiment, and the RHIC-LHC colliders.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0508277,
  title  = {Large Rapidity Gap Processes in Proton-Nucleus Collisions},
  author = {B. Z. Kopeliovich and I. K. Potashnikova and Ivan Schmidt},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0508277},
  year   = {2009}
}

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19 pages