2006
DOI: 10.1088/0954-3899/32/9/004
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Unintegrated parton distributions and pion production in pp collisions at RHIC energies

Abstract: We compare results of 2 → 1 k t -factorization approach with Kwieciński unintegrated parton distributions and the standard collinear factorization approach at RHIC and slightly smaller energies. Our approach contains only one free parameter responsible for internal parton motion in nucleons. In contrast to recent works in the literature our k t -factorization approach includes also quark degrees of freedom in addition to purely gluonic terms. Both mid and forward rapidity regions are considered. We discuss unc… Show more

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“…The collinear parton distribution functions (PDFs) can be generalized to include a transverse momentum degree of freedom, k T , as required by the uncertainty principle. This can be formally implemented in terms of unintegrated PDFs [20,21]. To avoid some of the complications associated with using unintegrated PDFs, it is expedient to parameterize phenomenologically the k T dependence of the parton distributions.…”
Section: A Description Of the Modelmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The collinear parton distribution functions (PDFs) can be generalized to include a transverse momentum degree of freedom, k T , as required by the uncertainty principle. This can be formally implemented in terms of unintegrated PDFs [20,21]. To avoid some of the complications associated with using unintegrated PDFs, it is expedient to parameterize phenomenologically the k T dependence of the parton distributions.…”
Section: A Description Of the Modelmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This fact is well known experimentally [23], but can be also explained by QCD-based calculations [24]. Therefore, also for two colliding P b nuclei (Z = 82, A − Z = 126) some discrepancy between π + and π − distributions is to be considered, and seems indeed indicated by the compilation of numerical results from the NA49 experiment [25].…”
Section: B Isospin Correctionmentioning
confidence: 74%
“…Within the k T -formalism in Ref. [43], the leading-order diagrams involving quark degrees of freedom, which are important in the fragmentation region, were included. Indeed, the contribution at large p Th is sizable at low-energies (intersecting storage rings) and at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider kinematic range (for p Th ≳ 3 GeV).…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%