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Nucleon Structure and Soft QCD from LHCb

Since the LHC reached the TeV scale in the high-energy hadron collisions, understanding of soft processes becomes inevitable for the constraining of the high-density regime of QCD. The measurement of the differential cross-section of prompt inclusive production of long-lived charged particles in pro...

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Autores principales: Oblakowska-Mucha, Agnieszka, Bashir, Saliha
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: SISSA 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://dx.doi.org/10.22323/1.397.0348
http://cds.cern.ch/record/2803027
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Sumario:Since the LHC reached the TeV scale in the high-energy hadron collisions, understanding of soft processes becomes inevitable for the constraining of the high-density regime of QCD. The measurement of the differential cross-section of prompt inclusive production of long-lived charged particles in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt s=13$ TeV is performed by the LHCb experiment. The cross-section is evaluated as a function of transverse momentum and pseudorapidity and compared with the physics model used in current predictions. Comparison of the proton-proton and proton-lead collisions provides insights into the structure of the initial state. LHCb reports the determination of the nuclear modification factor at previously unexplored parton momentum fraction