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Origins of parton correlations in nucleon and multi-parton collisions

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2012-06-26 v1

Abstract

We demonstrate that perturbative QCD leads to positive 3D parton--parton correlations inside nucleon explaining a factor two enhancement of the cross section of multi-parton interactions observed at Tevatron at xi0.01x_i\ge 0.01 as compared to the predictions of the independent parton approximation. We also find that though perturbative correlations decrease with xx decreasing, the nonperturbative mechanism kicks in and should generate correlation which, at xx below 10310^{-3}, is comparable in magnitude with the perturbative one for x0.01x\sim 0.01.

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@article{arxiv.1206.5594,
  title  = {Origins of parton correlations in nucleon and multi-parton collisions},
  author = {B. Blok and Yu. Dokshitzer and L. Frankfurt and M. Strikman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1206.5594},
  year   = {2012}
}

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4 pages, 5 figures