Forward J/ψ production at high energy: Centrality dependence and mean transverse momentum
Ducloue, B., Lappi, T., & Mäntysaari, H. (2016). Forward J/ψ production at high energy: Centrality dependence and mean transverse momentum. Physical Review D, 94(7), Article 074031. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.94.074031
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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.
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T. L. and B. D. are supported by the Academy of Finland, Grants No. 267321 and No. 273464. H. M. is supported under DOE Award No. DE-SC0012704. This research used computing resources of CSC—IT Center for Science in Espoo, Finland. We thank C. Hadjidakis and I. Lakomov for discussions on the ALICE data.Related items
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