Saturation at Hadron Colliders
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2008-11-26 v2
Abstract
We extend the saturation models a la Golec-Biernat and Wusthoff to cross-sections of hard processes initiated by virtual-gluon probes separated by large rapidity intervals at hadron colliders. We derive their analytic expressions and apply them to physical examples, such as saturation effects for Mueller-Navelet forward jets. By comparison to gamma*-gamma* cross-sections we find a more abrupt transition to saturation. We propose to study observables with a potentially clear saturation signal and to use heavy vector and flavored mesons as alternative hard probes to forward jets.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0312261,
title = {Saturation at Hadron Colliders},
author = {C. Marquet and R. Peschanski},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0312261},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
8pages, 4figures, shortened title, section II expanded, results unchanged, version to appear in PLB