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Particle production in proton-nucleus collisions beyond leading order

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2018-03-14 v1 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We describe the origin of, and the solution to, the negativity problem which occurs in the perturbative calculation of the cross-section for single-inclusive particle production in proton-nucleus collisions at next-to-leading-order.

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@article{arxiv.1705.10128,
  title  = {Particle production in proton-nucleus collisions beyond leading order},
  author = {E. Iancu and A. H. Mueller and D. N. Triantafyllopoulos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.10128},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

5 pages, 4 figures. Proceedings for the 26th International Conference on Ultrarelativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions (Quark Matter 2017), February 5-11 2017, Chicago, Illinois, USA