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Revision of absorption corrections for the $p p \to p p \pi^{+} \pi^{-}$ process

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-09-09 v2

Abstract

We include new additional absorption corrections into the Lebiedowicz-Szczurek (non-resonant) model for ppppπ+πp p \to p p \pi^+ \pi^- or ppˉppˉπ+πp \bar p \to p \bar p \pi^+ \pi^- processes. They are related to the πN\pi N nonperturbative interaction in the final state of the reaction. The role of the absorption corrections is quantified for several differential distributions for s\sqrt{s} = 0.2, 1.96, 7, and 8 TeV. The new absorption corrections lead to further decrease of the cross section by about a factor of two. They change the shape of some distributions (dσ/dtd \sigma / dt, dσ/dpt,pd \sigma / dp_{t,p}, dσ/dϕppd \sigma/d \phi_{pp}) but leave almost unchanged shape of other distributions (dσ/dMππd \sigma / dM_{\pi \pi}, dσ/dyπd \sigma / dy_{\pi}, dσ/dpt,πd \sigma /dp_{t,\pi}, dσ/dϕππd \sigma/ d \phi_{\pi \pi}). The effect may have important impact on the interpretation of the recent STAR and CDF data as well as the forthcoming data of the ALICE, ATLAS + ALFA and CMS + TOTEM collaborations.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1504.07560,
  title  = {Revision of absorption corrections for the $p p \to p p \pi^{+} \pi^{-}$ process},
  author = {Piotr Lebiedowicz and Antoni Szczurek},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1504.07560},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

24 pages, 15 figures, 1 table, some figures were removed, a discussion concerning large dipion transverse momenta and ISR data was added