Nuclear effects on the transverse momentum spectra of charged particles in pPb collisions at √s[subscript NN] = 5.02 TeV
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Apyan, Aram; Barbieri, Richard Alexander; Busza, Wit; Cali, Ivan Amos; Di Matteo, Leonardo; Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo; Goncharov, Maxim; Gulhan, Doga Can; Klute, Markus; Lai, Yue Shi; Lee, Yen-Jie; Levin, Andrew Michael; Ma, Teng; Paus, Christoph M. E.; Ralph, Duncan Kelley; Stephans, George S. F.; Velicanu, Dragos Alexandru; Veverka, Jan; Wyslouch, Boleslaw; Yang, Mingming; Zanetti, Marco; Bauer, Gerry P; Chan, M.; Luckey Jr, P David; Roland, Christof E; Roland, Gunther M; Stoeckli, Fabian; Sumorok, Konstanty C; Wyslouch, Victoria; ... Show more Show less
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Transverse momentum spectra of charged particles are measured by the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC in pPb collisions at √s[subscript NN] = 5.02 TeV, in the range 0.4 < p[subscript T] < 120 GeV/c and pseudorapidity |η[subscript CM]| < 1.8 in the proton–nucleon center-of-mass frame. For p[subscript T] < 10 GeV/c, the charged-particle production is asymmetric about η[subscript CM] = 0, with smaller yield observed in the direction of the proton beam, qualitatively consistent with expectations from shadowing in nuclear parton distribution functions (nPDF). A pp reference spectrum at √s = 5.02 TeV is obtained by interpolation from previous measurements at higher and lower center-of-mass energies. The p[subscript T] distribution measured in pPb collisions shows an enhancement of charged particles with p[subscript T] > 20 GeV/c compared to expectations from the pp reference. The enhancement is larger than predicted by perturbative quantum chromodynamics calculations that include antishadowing modifications of nPDFs.
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2015-05Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. School of ScienceJournal
The European Physical Journal C
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Springer-Verlag
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Khachatryan, V., A. M. Sirunyan, A. Tumasyan, W. Adam, T. Bergauer, M. Dragicevic, J. Erö, et al. “Nuclear Effects on the Transverse Momentum Spectra of Charged Particles in pPb Collisions at √s[subscript NN] = 5.02 TeV.” The European Physical Journal C 75, no. 5 (May 2015). © 2015 CERN for the benefit of the CMS collaboration
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1434-6044
1434-6052