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Nuclear modification of high transverse momentum particle production in p+A collisions at RHIC and LHC
We present results and predictions for the nuclear modification of the
differential cross sections for inclusive light hadron and prompt photon
production in minimum bias d+Au collisions at GeV and minimum
bias p+Pb collisions at TeV at RHIC and LHC, respectively. Our
calculations combine the leading order perturbative QCD formalism with cold
nuclear matter effects that arise from the elastic, inelastic and coherent
multiple scattering of partons in large nuclei. We find that a theoretical
approach that includes the isospin effect, Cronin effect, cold nuclear matter
energy loss and dynamical shadowing can describe the RHIC d+Au data rather
well. The LHC p+Pb predictions will soon be confronted by new experimental
results to help clarify the magnitude and origin of cold nuclear matter effects
and facilitate precision dense QCD matter tomography.Comment: 8 pages, 4 figure
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