Light-nuclei gluons from dijet production in proton-oxygen collisions
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2022-03-02 v1
Abstract
The prospects of measuring a single-differential dijet cross section during the proposed short proton-oxygen data taking at LHC Run 3 are studied using next-to-leading-order perturbative QCD predictions. With reasonable experimental cuts and luminosity estimates, such a measurement is found to be feasible, and a few inverse nanobarns of integrated luminosity is estimated to be enough to yield new constraints on parton distribution functions (PDFs) of light nuclei. In the absence of a dedicated proton-proton reference, a mixed-energy nuclear modification ratio is proposed for cancelling free-proton PDF uncertainties to obtain a direct access to the nuclear modifications of the parton distributions in oxygen.
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@article{arxiv.2111.05368,
title = {Light-nuclei gluons from dijet production in proton-oxygen collisions},
author = {Petja Paakkinen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.05368},
year = {2022}
}
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7 pages, 5 figures