Predictions for cold nuclear matter effects in p plus Pb collisions at root SNN =8.16 TeV

Predictions for cold nuclear matter effects on charged hadrons, identified light hadrons, quarkonium and heavy flavor hadrons, Drell-Yan dileptons, jets, photons, gauge bosons and top quark pairs produced in p+Pb collisions at, root S-NN = 8.16 TeV are compiled and, where possible, compared to each other. Predictions of the normalized ratios of p+Pb to p+ p cross sections are also presented for most of the observables, providing new insights into the expected role of cold nuclear matter effects. In particular, the role of nuclear parson distribution functions on particle production can now be probed over a wider range of phase space than ever before. (C) 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.Peer reviewe

Forward J/ψ production at high energy: Centrality dependence and mean transverse momentum

Forward rapidity J=ψ meson production in proton-nucleus collisions can be an important constraint of descriptions of the small-x nuclear wave function. In an earlier work we studied this process using a dipole cross section satisfying the Balitsky-Kovchegov equation, fit to HERA inclusive data and consistently extrapolated to the nuclear case using a standard Woods-Saxon distribution. In this paper we present further calculations of these cross sections, studying the mean transverse momentum of the meson and the dependence on collision centrality. We also extend the calculation to backward rapidities using nuclear parton distribution functions. We show that the parametrization is overall rather consistent with the available experimental data. However, there is a tendency towards a too strong centrality dependence. This can be traced back to the rather small transverse area occupied by small-x gluons in the nucleon that is seen in the HERA data, compared to the total inelastic nucleon-nucleon cross section.peerReviewe

Forward J /ψ production in proton-nucleus collisions at high energy

Inclusive production of J/ψ mesons, especially at forward rapidities, is an important probe of small-x gluons in protons and nuclei. In this paper we reevaluate the production cross sections in the color glass condensate framework, where the process is described by a large x gluon from the probe splitting into a quark pair and eikonally interacting with the target proton or nucleus. Using a standard collinear gluon distribution for the probe and an up-to-date dipole cross section fitted to HERA data to describe the target we achieve a rather good description of the cross section in proton-proton collisions, although with a rather large normalization uncertainty. More importantly, we show that generalizing the dipole cross section to nuclei in the Glauber approach results in a nuclear suppression of J/ψ production that is much closer to the experimental data than claimed in previous literature.peerReviewe

Forward J/ψ production in pA collisions : centrality dependence

The nuclear suppression of forward J/ψ production in high energy proton-nucleus collisions can be used as a probe of gluon saturation at small x. In an earlier work we studied this suppression in minimum bias collisions in the Color Glass Condensate formalism, relying on the optical Glauber model to obtain the dipole cross section of the nucleus from the one of the proton fitted to HERA DIS data. Here we study how the impact parameter dependence of this model can be used to compare our results with recent LHC data on the centrality dependence of this suppression.nonPeerReviewe

Phenomenological tests of perturbative quantum chromodynamics at high energy at the LHC

Dans la limite des hautes énergies, la petite valeur de la constante de couplage de l'interaction forte peut être compensée par l'apparition de grands logarithmes de l'énergie dans le centre de masse. Toutes ces contributions peuvent être du même ordre de grandeur et sont resommées par l'équation de Balitsky-Fadin-Kuraev-Lipatov (BFKL). De nombreux processus ont été proposés pour étudier cette dynamique. L'un des plus prometteurs, proposé par Mueller et Navelet, est l'étude de la production de deux jets vers l'avant séparés par un grand intervalle en rapidité dans les collisions de hadrons. Un calcul BFKL ne prenant en compte que les termes dominants (approximation des logarithmes dominants ou LL) prédit une augmentation rapide de la section efficace avec l'augmentation de l'intervalle en rapidité entre les jets ainsi qu'une faible corrélation angulaire. Cependant, des calculs basés sur cette approximation ne purent pas décrire correctement les mesures expérimentales de ces observables au Tevatron. Dans cette thèse, nous étudions ce processus à l'ordre des logarithmes sous-dominants, ou NLL, en prenant en compte les corrections NLL aux facteurs d'impact, qui décrivent la transition d'un hadron initial vers un jet, et à la fonction de Green, qui décrit le couplage entre les facteurs d'impact. Nous étudions l'importance de ces corrections NLL et trouvons qu'elles sont très importantes, ce qui conduit à des résultats très différents de ceux obtenus à l'ordre des logarithmes dominants. De plus, ces résultats dépendent fortement du choix des échelles présentes dans ce processus. Nous comparons nos résultats avec des données récentes de la collaboration CMS sur les corrélations angulaires des jets Mueller-Navelet au LHC et ne trouvons pas un bon accord. Nous montrons que cela peut être corrigé en utilisant la procédure de Brodsky-Lepage-Mackenzie pour fixer le choix de l'échelle de renormalisation. Cela conduit à des résultats plus stables et une très bonne description des données de CMS. Finalement, nous montrons que, à l'ordre des logarithmes sous-dominants, l'absence de conservation stricte de l'énergie-impulsion (qui est un effet négligé dans un calcul BFKL) devrait être un problème beaucoup moins important qu'à l'ordre des logarithmes dominants.In the high energy limit of QCD, the smallness of the strong coupling due to the presence of a hard scale can be compensated by large logarithms of the center of mass energy. All these logarithmically-enhanced contributions can be resummed by the Balitsky-Fadin-Kuraev-Lipatov (BFKL) equation. Many processes have been proposed to study these dynamics. Among the most promising ones is the production of two forward jets separated by a large interval of rapidity at hadron colliders, proposed by Mueller and Navelet. A BFKL calculation taking into account only dominant contributions (leading logarithmic, or LL, accuracy) predicts a strong rise of the cross section with increasing rapidity separation between the jets and a large decorrelation of their azimuthal angles. However, such LL calculations could not successfully describe measurements of these observables performed at the Tevatron. In this thesis, we study this process at next-to-leading logarithmic (NLL) accuracy, taking into account NLL corrections both to the impact factors, which describe the transition from an incoming hadron to a jet, and to the Green's function, which describes the coupling between the impact factors. We investigate the magnitude of these NLL corrections and find that they are very large, leading to very different results compared with a LL calculation. In addition, we find that these results are very dependent on the choice of the scales involved in the process. We compare our results with recent data from the CMS collaboration on the azimuthal correlations of Mueller-Navelet jets at the LHC and find a rather poor agreement. We show that this can be cured by using the Brodsky-Lepage-Mackenzie procedure to fix the renormalization scale. This leads to more stable results and a very good description of CMS data. Finally, we show that at NLL accuracy the absence of strict energy-momentum conservation (which is a subleading effect in a BFKL calculation) should be a much less severe issue than at LL accuracy.PARIS11-SCD-Bib. électronique (914719901) / SudocSudocFranceF

Production of a forward J/ψ and a backward jet at LHC

We study the production at the LHC of a forward J/ψ meson and a backward jet with a large rapidity separation using the BFKL formalism. We give predictions for both the Non Relativistic QCD (NRQCD) approach to charmonium production and the Color Evaporation Model. In NRQCD, we find that the 3S18 part of the onium wavefunction is completely dominating the process, which makes the presented study a good probe for this color octet contribution.peerReviewe

Prospects for quarkonium studies at the high-luminosity LHC

International audienceProspects for quarkonium-production studies accessible during the upcoming high-luminosity phases of the CERN Large Hadron Collider operation after 2021 are reviewed. Current experimental and theoretical open issues in the field are assessed together with the potential for future studies in quarkonium-related physics. This will be possible through the exploitation of the huge data samples to be collected in proton–proton, proton–nucleus and nucleus–nucleus collisions, both in the collider and fixed-target modes. Such investigations include, among others, those of: (i) J/ψ and Υ produced in association with other hard particles; (ii) χc,b and ηc,b down to small transverse momenta; (iii) the constraints brought in by quarkonia on gluon PDFs, nuclear PDFs, TMDs, GPDs and GTMDs, as well as on the low-x parton dynamics; (iv) the gluon Sivers effect in polarised-nucleon collisions; (v) the properties of the quark–gluon plasma produced in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions and of collective partonic effects in general; and (vi) double and triple parton scatterings

Perspectives for quarkonium studies at the high-luminosity LHC

We review the prospects for quarkonium-production studies in proton and nuclear collisions accessible during the upcoming phases of the CERN Large Hadron Collider operation after 2021, including the ultimate high-luminosity phase, with increased luminosities compared to LHC Runs 1 and 2. We address the current experimental and theoretical open issues in the field and the perspectives for future studies in quarkonium-related physics through the exploitation of the huge data samples to be collected in proton-proton, with integrated luminosities reaching up to 3/ab, in proton-nucleus and in nucleus-nucleus collisions, both in the collider and fixed-target modes. Such investigations include, among others, those of: (i) the quarkonia produced in association with other hard particles; (ii) the chi(Q) and eta(Q) down to small transverse momenta; (iii) the constraints brought in by quarkonia on gluon PDFs, nuclear PDFs, TMDs, GPDs and GTMDs, as well as on the low-x parton dynamics; (iv) the gluon Sivers effect in polarised-nucleon collisions; (v) the properties of the quark-gluon plasma produced in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions and of collective partonic effects in general; and (vi) double and triple parton scatterings

Prospects for quarkonium studies at the high-luminosity LHC

International audienceProspects for quarkonium-production studies accessible during the upcoming high-luminosity phases of the CERN Large Hadron Collider operation after 2021 are reviewed. Current experimental and theoretical open issues in the field are assessed together with the potential for future studies in quarkonium-related physics. This will be possible through the exploitation of the huge data samples to be collected in proton–proton, proton–nucleus and nucleus–nucleus collisions, both in the collider and fixed-target modes. Such investigations include, among others, those of: (i) J/ψ and Υ produced in association with other hard particles; (ii) χc,b and ηc,b down to small transverse momenta; (iii) the constraints brought in by quarkonia on gluon PDFs, nuclear PDFs, TMDs, GPDs and GTMDs, as well as on the low-x parton dynamics; (iv) the gluon Sivers effect in polarised-nucleon collisions; (v) the properties of the quark–gluon plasma produced in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions and of collective partonic effects in general; and (vi) double and triple parton scatterings