Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2009-09-14
PoS EPS-HEP2009 2009:045,2009
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
4 pages, 3 figures, talk given at "The 2009 Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics", 16-22 July 2009, Krakow, Poland
Scientific paper
We provide predictions for the nuclear modification factor R_{pA} for pions and direct photon production in p+A collisions at LHC energy at midrapidity within different saturation models fitted to HERA data. In our approach we have no free parameters to adjust and all model parameters are fitted to other reactions. Our approach gives a rather good description of PHENIX data for R_{pA} for pions. We show that, in various saturation models, the pion Cronin enhancement is replaced by a moderate suppression at LHC energy at midrapidity due to gluon shadowing effects. However, Cronin enhancement of direct photons can survive at LHC energy in models with a larger saturation scale. We show that both shadowing and saturation effects are important at LHC in p+A collisions and give rise to a rather sizable effect in the nuclear modification factor R_{pA}. Therefore, a precise measurement of p+A collisions at LHC is crucial in order to understand the underlying dynamics of heavy ion collisions.
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