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We report on our studies of the neutron-skin effects in high-$p_{\mathrm{T}}$ observables at the LHC. We study the impact of the neutron-skin effect on the centrality dependence of inclusive direct photon, high-$p_{\mathrm{T}}$ hadron and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-30 Ilkka Helenius , Hannu Paukkunen , Kari J. Eskola

We consider the nuclear shadowing in deep-inelastic scattering corresponding to kinematic regions accessible by future experiments at electron-ion colliders. The gluon distribution at small $x$ is obtained using an improved dipole model…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-11-25 G. R. Boroun , B. Rezaei

We discuss the behaviour of R(pA), the ratio of the unintegrated gluon distribution of a nucleus over the unintegrated gluon distribution of a proton scaled up by A^{1/3}, at high energy and fixed coupling. We show that R(pA) exhibits a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-09-03 Misha Kozlov , Arif I. Shoshi , Bo-Wen Xiao

The approach to problem of nuclear shadowing based on Gribov Reggeon calculus is presented. Here the total cross section of $h A$ interaction is found in a parameter-free description, employing the new data on the gluon density of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Konrad Tywoniuk , Ionut Arsene , Larissa Bravina , Alexey Kaidalov , Eugene Zabrodin

We argue that high energy proton-nucleus (p+A) collisions provide an excellent laboratory for studying nuclear size enhanced parton multiple scattering where power corrections to the leading twist perturbative QCD factorization approach can…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Jianwei Qiu , Ivan Vitev

We propose a particle production mechanism analogous to the particle photoproduction processes, arising from the gluon-nucleon interactions in relativistic heavy ion collisions. The comparison is made on the effect of the gluon-nucleon…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-06-25 Yong-Ping Fu , Fei-Jie Huang , Qi-Hui Chen

Using the extrapolation of existing data estimations of prompt photon production at FAIR energies have been made. At $y=y_{c.m.}$ the rapidity density of prompt photons with $p_{t}>$ 1.5 GeV/c per central Au+Au event at 25 AGeV is estimated…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-13 S. M. Kiselev

In this article, we investigate the potential of low-mass lepton pair production in proton-ion collisions at the LHC to constrain nuclear modifications of parton densities. Similarly to prompt photon production, the transverse momentum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-18 M. Brandt , M. Klasen , F. König

Di-hadron and di-jet correlation measurements in proton-nucleus ($p$+A) and electron--nucleus collisions are widely motivated as sensitive probes of novel, non-linear QCD saturation dynamics in hadrons, which are particularly accessible in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-05-05 Dennis V. Perepelitsa

Saturation of small-x gluons in a nucleus, which has the form of transverse momentum broadening of projectile gluons in pA collisions in the nuclear rest frame, leads to a modification of the parton distribution functions in the beam…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-03-03 B. Z. Kopeliovich , H. J. Pirner , I. K. Potashnikova , Ivan Schmidt

We study the nuclear enhancement of the transverse momentum imbalance for back-to-back particle production in both p+A and e+A collisions. Specifically, we present results for photon+jet and photon+hadron production in p+A collisions,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-11-12 Hongxi Xing , Zhong-Bo Kang , Ivan Vitev , Enke Wang

We discuss the transverse momentum distribution of thermal and prompt photons in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions. The prompt photons are mostly produced by fragmentation of quark jets (bremsstrahlung). If these quark jets suffer a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Adrian Dumitru , Nils Hammon

The change of the probability of proton emission in nuclear photoeffect due to an intense coherent (laser) field is discussed near the threshold, where the hindering effect of the Coulomb field of the remainder nucleus is essential. The…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-06-26 Péter Kálmán , Dániel Péter Kis , Tamás Keszthelyi

We study inclusive heavy quark and exclusive heavy quark pair production in pp, pA and AA interactions. Intrinsic transverse momentum is introduced in pp interactions. Nuclear effects, limited to $k_T$ broadening and nuclear shadowing, are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-06 R. Vogt

The differential cross section of coherent photo-production of heavy quarkonia on nuclear targets is calculated within the QCD color dipole formalism. The higher-twist nuclear shadowing corresponding to the $\bar QQ$ Fock component of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-23 B. Z. Kopeliovich , M. Krelina , J. Nemchik , I. K. Potashnikova

We present a study of inclusive direct-photon and pion production in hadronic interactions, focusing on a comparison of the ratio of gamma/pi0 yields with expectations from next-to-leading order perturbative QCD (NLO pQCD). We also examine…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 L. Apanasevich , M. Begel , C. Bromberg , T. Ferbel , G. Ginther , J. Huston , S. E. Kuhlmann , P. Slattery , M. Zielinski , V. Zutshi

The nuclear modification factor $R_{pA}(p_T)$ provides information on the small-$x$ gluon distribution of a nucleus at hadron colliders. Several experiments have recently measured the nuclear modification factor not only in minimum bias but…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-09 Adrian Dumitru , Gary Kapilevich , Vladimir Skokov

We argue that hadron production in coherent diffraction of proton on a heavy nucleus provides a very sensitive probe of the low-x QCD dynamics. This process probes the BFKL dynamics in proton and the non-linear gluon evolution in nucleus.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Yang Li , Kirill Tuchin

We study the prompt photon hadroproduction at the LHC with the $k_T$-factorization approach and the $qg^* \to q\gamma$ and $g^*g^* \to q\bar q\gamma$ partonic channels, using three unintegrated gluon distributions which depend on gluon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-24 Krzysztof Golec-Biernat , Leszek Motyka , Tomasz Stebel

We present and discuss the theory and phenomenology of the leading twist theory of nuclear shadowing which is based on the combination of the generalization of the Gribov-Glauber theory, QCD factorization theorems, and the HERA QCD analysis…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-28 L. Frankfurt , V. Guzey , M. Strikman