Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2002-05-06
Nucl.Phys. A713 (2003) 167-187
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
28 pages, 21 eps-figures
Scientific paper
10.1016/S0375-9474(02)01304-0
We compute the distributions of charged particles at large transverse momenta in $p\bar p(p)$, $pA$ and $AA$ collisions in the framework of perturbative QCD, by using collinear factorization and the modern PDFs and fragmentation functions. At the highest cms-energies the shape of the spectra measured in $p\bar p(p)$ collisions at large $q_T$ can be well explained. The difference between the data and the lowest-order computation is quantified in terms of a constant $K$-factor for each energy. The $K$-factor is found to systematically decrease with growing $\sqrt s$. Also a lower limit for the partonic transverse momentum, $p_0$, is extracted for each $\sqrt s$ based on the comparison with the measurements. A systematic increase of $p_0$ as a function of $\sqrt s$ is found. Nuclear effects in the charged-particle spectra in $pA$ and $AA$ collisions at RHIC and LHC are studied in the framework of collinear factorization by applying the EKS98 nuclear corrections to the parton distributions. The nuclear effects are shown to mostly enhance the computed spectra. A comparison with the recent PHENIX data from central and peripheral Au+Au collisions at RHIC is done.
Eskola Kari. J.
Honkanen Heli
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