Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2004-11-28
Phys.Rev. D71 (2005) 014023
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
55 pages, 9 eps figures, presentation shortened, a number of typos removed, to appear in Phys. Rev. D
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.71.014023
The linear k_\perp-factorization is part and parcel of the pQCD description of high energy hard processes off free nucleons. In the case of heavy nuclear targets the very concept of nuclear parton density becomes ill-defined as exemplified by the recent derivation [2] of nonlinear nuclear k_\perp-factorization for forward dijet production in DIS off nuclei. Here we report a derivation of the related breaking of k_\perp-factorization for single-jet processes. We present a general formalism and apply it to several cases of practical interest: open charm and quark and gluon jet production in the central to beam fragmentation region of \gamma^*p,\gamma^*A, pp and pA collisions. We show how the pattern of k_\perp-factorization breaking and the nature and number of exchanged nuclear pomerons do change within the phase space of produced quark and gluon jets. As an application of the nonlinear k_\perp-factorization we discuss the Cronin effect. Our results are also applicable to the p_\perp-dependence of the Landau-Pomeranchuk-Migdal effect for, and nuclear quenching of, jets produced in the proton hemisphere of pA collisions.
Nikolaev Nikolai N.
Schäfer Wolfgang
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