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Parton energy loss in high energy hard forward processes in proton-nucleus collisions

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2014-04-23 v2 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We calculate the spectrum of energy loss differences due to gluon radiation in high energy hard forward processes in proton-nucleus collisions as compared to proton-proton collisions. We find that the nuclear induced energy loss scales linearly with the beam energy. We evaluate the spectrum and "typical" energy losses in a logarithmic and large NcN_{c} approximation. The energy losses found appear large enough to be phenomenologically important.

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@article{arxiv.1402.1647,
  title  = {Parton energy loss in high energy hard forward processes in proton-nucleus collisions},
  author = {Tseh Liou and A. H. Mueller},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1402.1647},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

26 pages, 14 figures. V2: corrected typos