Quarkonium plus prompt-photon associated hadroproduction and nuclear shadowing

Mariotto, C. Brenner; Machado, M. V. T.

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“…For instance, the production of isolated direct photons [21] as well as inclusive hadrons [22] at RHIC and LHC can provide useful constraints on the nuclear gluon distribution 2 , even though in the latter channel the fragmentation process complicates its extraction. Another natural candidate for measuring the gluon nPDF is heavy-quark [23] or heavy-quarkonium [24] production. Quarkonium production is however still not fully under control theoretically (see e.g.…”

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Probing gluon and heavy-quark nuclear PDFs with γ + Q production in pA collisions

Stavreva

Schienbein

Arleo

et al. 2011

J. High Energ. Phys.

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We present a detailed phenomenological study of direct photon production in association with a heavy-quark jet in pA collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at next-to-leading order in QCD. The dominant contribution to the cross-section comes from the gluon-heavy-quark (gQ) initiated subprocess, making γ + Q production a process very sensitive to both the gluon and the heavy-quark parton distribution functions (PDFs). Additionally, the RHIC and LHC experiments are probing complementary kinematic regions in the momentum fraction x 2 carried by the target partons. Thus, the nuclear production ratio R γ+Q pA can provide strong constraints, over a broad x-range, on the poorly determined nuclear parton distribution functions which are extremely important for the interpretation of results in heavy-ion collisions.

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Probing gluon and heavy-quark nuclear PDFs with γ + Q production in pA collisions

Stavreva

Schienbein

Arleo

et al. 2011

J. High Energ. Phys.

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“…Refs. [13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21]), which try to help in constraining the nuclear PDFs from several observables. The variety of nuclear effects may also be relevant for gluino production, since there are contributing diagrams with both (anti)quarks and gluons in the initial state.…”

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Gluino production in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions and nuclear shadowing

Mariotto¹,

Espindola

Rodriguez³

2011

Phys. Rev. C

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In this article we investigate the influence of nuclear effects in the production of gluinos in nuclear collisions at the LHC, and estimate the transverse momentum dependence of the nuclear ratios RpA = dσ(pA) dyd 2 p T /A dσ(pp) dyd 2 p T and RAA = dσ(AA) dyd 2 p T /A 2 dσ(pp) dyd 2 p T . We demonstrate that depending on the magnitude of the nuclear effects, the production of gluinos could be enhanced, compared to protonproton collisions. The study of these observables can be useful to determine the magnitude of the shadowing and antishadowing effects in the nuclear gluon distribution. Moreover, we test different SPS scenarios, corresponding to different soft SUSY breaking mechanisms, and find that the nuclear ratios are strongly dependent on that choice. PACS numbers: 12.60.Jv; 14.80.Ly; 24.85.+p The main aim of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which is already running and soon will be in complete operation with 14 TeV, is to find the Higgs particle. That discovery may either confirm the Standard Model (SM) or open new windows towards new physics. Although the SM explain all experimental data except neutrino masses, there are many reasons to go beyond it. Some theoretical problems in the SM are: hierarchy problem, electroweak symmetry breaking, gauge coupling unification, etc [1]. The Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) is the simplest supersymmetric extension of the SM, being a good candidate to Physics Beyond Standard Model [1,2]. In the MSSM, for each usual particle, one assigns a superpartner with oposite statistics: it means that for each boson there is a fermionic superpartner, and the reverse in the case of fermions. In the strong sector, one has the so called supersymmetric QCD (sQCD), where besides the gluon (boson) and quarks (fermions), there are the corresponding superpartners: gluinos (fermions) and squarks (bosons). On this model, the gluinos are the superpartners of gluons, they are color octet fermions and therefore they can not mix with other particles, as a result its mass is a parameter of soft SUSY breaking terms. Gluinos are Majorana fermions, expected to be one of the most massive MSSM sparticles, and therefore, their production is only feasible at very energetic machines such as the LHC. The gluino and squark masses are still unknown parameters, but they cannot be smaller than around a half TeV, as predicted by several models for SUSY breaking. The "Snowmass Points and Slopes"SPS) [3] are a set of benchmark points and parameter lines in the MSSM parameter space corresponding to different scenarios in the search for supersymmetry at present and future experiments (See [4] for a very nice review). The aim of this convention is reconstructing Scenario mg (GeV ) mq (GeV ) SPS1a 595.2 539.9 SPS1b 916.1 836.2 SPS2 784.4 1533.6 SPS3 914.3 818.3 SPS4 721.0 732.2 SPS5 710.3 643.9 SPS6 708.5 641.3 SPS7 926.0 861.3 SPS8 820.5 1081.6 SPS9 1275.2 1219.2TABLE I: The values of the masses of gluinos and squarks in the SPS scenarios.the fundamental supersymmetric theory, and its breaking mec...

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Nuclear PDFs

Schienbein

2011

Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements

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Quarkonium plus prompt-photon associated hadroproduction and nuclear shadowing

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Probing gluon and heavy-quark nuclear PDFs with γ + Q production in pA collisions

Probing gluon and heavy-quark nuclear PDFs with γ + Q production in pA collisions

Gluino production in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions and nuclear shadowing

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