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Forward di-jet production in p+Pb collisions in the small-x improved TMD factorization framework

Van Hameren, A.; Kotko, P.; Kutak, K.; Marquet, C.; Petreska, Elena; Sapeta, S.

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We study the production of forward di-jets in proton-lead and proton-proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider. Such configurations, with both jets produced in the forward direction, impose a dilute-dense asymmetry which allows to probe the gluon density of the lead or proton target at small longitudinal momentum fractions. Even though the jet momenta are always much bigger than the saturation scale of the target, Q s, the transverse momentum imbalance of the di-jet system may be either also much larger than Q s, or of the order Q s, implying that the small-x QCD dynamics involved is either linear or non-linear, respectively. The small-x improved TMD factorization framework deals with both situations in the same formalism. In the latter case, which corresponds to nearly back-to-back jets, we find that saturation effects induce a significant suppression of the forward di-jet azimuthal correlations in proton-lead versus proton-proton collisions

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JHEP02(2019)158 Published for SISSA by Springer Received:February 20, 2019 Accepted:February 20, 2019 Published:February 25, 2019 Erratum: Forward di-jet production in p+Pb collisions in the small-ximproved TMD factorization framework A. van Hameren,aP. Kotko,bK. Kutak,aC. Marquet,cE. Petreskac,d and S. Sapetae,a aThe H. Niewodnicza´nski Institute of Nuclear Physics PAN, Radzikowskiego 152, 31-342 Krak´ow, Poland bDepartment of Physics, Penn State University, University Park, 16803 PA, U.S.A. cCentre de Physique Th´eorique, ´ Ecole Polytechnique, CNRS, Universit´e Paris-Saclay, 91128 Palaiseau, France dDepartamento de F´ısica de Part´ıculas and IGFAE, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain eTheoretical Physics Department, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland E-mail: [email protected],[email protected], [email protected],[email protected], [email protected],[email protected] Erratum to: JHEP12(2016)034 ArXiv ePrint: 1607.03121 There was a mistake in the normalization of the histograms representing the differenial cross section as a function of the azimuthal angle between the jets: figure 3 left and figure 4 left in the original paper [1]. The corrected distributions are plotted in figure 1and figure 2, respectively. The mistake affects only the absolute predicted cross section. The current cross section is in agreement with earlier calculation [2], which was done within the simplified model (‘HEF’ in [1]) and similar (but not exactly the same) kinematic cuts. The error does not affect any other distributions presented in the paper nor the conclusions. Open Access,c The Authors. Article funded by SCOAP3.https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP02(2019)158 JHEP02(2019)158 10 100 1000 10000 1.6 1.8 2 2.2 2.4 2.6 2.8 3 √S = 8.16 TeV pT1>pT2 > 20 GeV 3.5<y1,y2<4.5 dσ/dΔφ [nb] Δφ ITMD (KS), p+p HEF (KS), p+p Figure 1. Differential cross section as a function of the azimuthal angle between the jets for p+p collisions, comparing the new ITMD approach with previously obtained HEF results. The plot replaces figure 3 left in [1]. 10 100 1000 10000 1.6 1.8 2 2.2 2.4 2.6 2.8 3 √S = 8.16 TeV pT1>pT2 > 20 GeV 3.5<y1,y2<4.5 dσ/dΔφ [nb] Δφ ITMD (KS) with S(x), p+p ITMD (KS) with S(x), d=0.75, p+Pb Figure 2. Differential cross section as a function of the azimuthal angle between the jets for p+p and p+Pb collisions (rescaled by the number of nucleons). The distributions are identical everywhere expect near ∆φ≃π, where saturation is the strongest. The plot replaces figure 4 left in [1]. – 2 – JHEP02(2019)158 Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits any use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited. References [1] A. van Hameren, P. Kotko, K. Kutak, C. Marquet, E. Petreska and S. Sapeta, Forward di-jet production in p+Pb collisions in the small-ximproved TMD factorization framework,JHEP 12 (2016) 034 [arXiv:1607.03121] [INSPIRE]. [2] A. van Hameren, P. Kotko, K. Kutak, C. Marquet and S. Sapeta, Saturation effects in forward-forward dijet production in p+Pb collisions,Phys. Rev. D 89 (2014) 094014 [arXiv:1402.5065] [INSPIRE]. – 3 –