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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