Leading twist nuclear shadowing and suppression of hard coherent diffraction in proton-nucleus scattering

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dc.creatorGuzey, V.
dc.creatorStrikman, M.
dc.date2005-07-27
dc.date2006-12-21
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T10:29:36Z
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dc.descriptionWe use the Glauber-Gribov multiple scattering formalism and the theory of leading twist nuclear shadowing to develop a method for the calculation of leading twist hard coherent diffraction in hadron-nucleus processes. We demonstrate that soft multiple rescatterings lead to the factorization breaking of hard diffraction in proton-nucleus scattering, which is larger than in hadron-nucleon scattering. At the LHC and RHIC kinematics, we compare the hard diffractive to e.m.~mechanisms of hard coherent production of two jets in proton-nucleus scattering. We study the x_{\Pomeron}, βand A-dependence of the ratio of the dijet production cross sections due to the two effects, R. We demonstrate that in proton-heavy nucleus hard coherent diffraction at the LHC, R is small, which offers a clean method to study hard photon-proton scattering at the energies exceeding the HERA energies by the factor of ten. On the other hand, the use of lighter nuclei, such as Ca-40, will allow to study the screened nuclear diffractive parton distribution. Moreover, a comparison of the dijet diffractive production to the heavy-quark-jet diffractive production will estimate the screened nuclear diffractive gluon PDF, which will be measured in nucleus-nucleus ultraperipheral collisions at the LHC.
dc.description25 pages, 11 figures, LaTeX. It is a significantly revised and extended version of our original preprint. The calculation of leading twist nuclear shadowing is based on the most recent H1 diffractive fits
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0507310
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0507310
dc.identifierPhys.Rev.C75:045208,2007
dc.identifierdoi:10.1103/PhysRevC.75.045208
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/177856
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenology
dc.titleLeading twist nuclear shadowing and suppression of hard coherent diffraction in proton-nucleus scattering
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