Wednesday, May 29, 2013

1305.6468 (Daniel de Florian et al.)

Soft-gluon Resummation for High-pT Inclusive-Hadron Production at
COMPASS
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Daniel de Florian, Melanie Pfeuffer, Andreas Schafer, Werner Vogelsang
We study the cross section for the photoproduction reaction gamma N -> h X in fixed-target scattering at COMPASS, where the hadron h is produced at large transverse momentum. We investigate the role played by higher-order QCD corrections to the cross section. In particular we address large logarithmic "threshold" corrections to the rapidity dependent partonic cross sections, which we resum to all orders at next-to-leading accuracy. In our comparison to the experimental data we find that the threshold contributions are large and improve the agreement between data and theoretical predictions significantly.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1305.6468

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