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Measuring Double Parton Distributions in Nucleons at Proton-Nucleus Colliders

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2011-07-19 v1 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We predict a strong enhancement of multijet production in proton-nucleus collisions at collider energies, as compared to a naive expectation of a cross section A\propto A. The study of the process would allow to measure, for the first time, the double parton distribution functions in a nucleon in a model independent way and hence to study both the longitudinal and the transverse correlations of partons.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0111468,
  title  = {Measuring Double Parton Distributions in Nucleons at Proton-Nucleus Colliders},
  author = {M. Strikman and D. Treleani},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0111468},
  year   = {2011}
}

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12 pages, 2 figures