Fractional momentum correlations in multiple production of bosons and of pairs in high energy collisions
Jul, 2005
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Abstract:
Multiple parton collisions will represent a rather common feature in pp collisions at the LHC, where regimes with very large momentum transfer may be studied and events rare in lower energy accelerators might occur with a significant rate. A reason of interest in large p_t regimes is that, differently from low p_t, evolution will induce correlations in x in the multiparton structure functions. We have estimated the cross section of multiple production of W bosons with equal sign, where the correlations in x induced by evolution are particularly relevant, and the cross section of b-bar_b b-bar_b production, where the effects of evolution are much smaller. Our result is that, in the case of multiple production of W bosons, the terms with correlations may represent a correction of the order of 40% of the cross sections, for pp collisions at 1 TeV c.m. energy, and a correction of the order of 20% at 14 TeV. In the case of b-bar_b pairs the correction terms are of the order of 10-15% at 1 TeV and of the order of 5% at 14 TeV.Note:
- Submitted to Phys. Rev. D
- 13.60.Hb
- 13.85.Hd
- 24.85.+p
- 13.87.Fh
- multiple collisions
- high energy hadron interactions
- inelastic scattering: many-particle final states
- inclusive production
- p p: interaction
- W+: pair production
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