Tuesday, June 26, 2012

1206.5594 (B. Blok et al.)

Origins of parton correlations in nucleon and multi-parton collisions    [PDF]

B. Blok, Yu. Dokshitzer, L. Frankfurt, M. Strikman
We demonstrate that perturbative QCD leads to positive 3D parton--parton correlations inside nucleon explaining a factor two enhancement of the cross section of multi-parton interactions observed at Tevatron at $x_i\ge 0.01$ as compared to the predictions of the independent parton approximation. We also find that though perturbative correlations decrease with $x$ decreasing, the nonperturbative mechanism kicks in and should generate correlation which, at $x$ below $10^{-3}$, is comparable in magnitude with the perturbative one for $x\sim 0.01$.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1206.5594

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