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Refined TMD gluon density in a proton from the HERA and LHC data

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2024-04-16 v1

Abstract

We update the phenomenological parameters of the Transverse Momentum Dependent (TMD, or unintegrated) gluon density in a proton proposed in our previous studies. This analysis is based on the analytical expression for starting gluon distribution which provides a self-consistent simultaneous description of HERA data on proton structure function F2(x,Q2)F_2(x,Q^2), reduced cross section for the electron-proton deep inelastic scattering at low Q2Q^2 and soft hadron production in pppp collisions at the LHC conditions. We extend it to the whole kinematical region using the Catani-Ciafaloni-Fiorani-Marchesini (CCFM) evolution equation. Exploiting our previous results on a number of semihard QCD processes, we performed a combined fit to an extended set of LHC and HERA data, comprising a total of 509509 points from 1616 data sets. We illustrate our fit by applying the derived TMD gluon density in a proton to inclusive prompt photon photoproduction at HERA.

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@article{arxiv.2404.09550,
  title  = {Refined TMD gluon density in a proton from the HERA and LHC data},
  author = {A. V. Lipatov and G. I. Lykasov and M. A. Malyshev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.09550},
  year   = {2024}
}

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9 pages, 2 figures, 1 table