Same-sign WW production in proton-nucleus collisions at the LHC as a signal for double parton scattering

被引：42

作者：

d'Enterria, David ^{[1
]}

Snigirev, Alexander M. ^{[2
]}

机构：

[1] CERN, PH Dept, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland

[2] Moscow MV Lomonosov State Univ, Skobeltsyn Inst Nucl Phys, Moscow 119991, Russia

来源：

PHYSICS LETTERS B | 2013年 / 718卷 / 4-5期

基金：

俄罗斯基础研究基金会;

关键词：

PP COLLISIONS; (P)OVER-BAR-P COLLISIONS; MULTIPARTON INTERACTIONS; BOSON PRODUCTION; EVENTS; SEARCH; PROBE;

D O I：

10.1016/j.physletb.2012.12.032

中图分类号：

P1 [天文学];

学科分类号：

0704 ;

摘要：

The production of same-sign W-boson pairs from double parton scatterings (DPS) in proton-lead (p-Pb) collisions at the CERN Large Hadron Collider is studied. The signal and background cross sections are estimated with next-to-leading-order perturbative QCD calculations using nuclear parton distribution functions for the Pb ion. At root S-NN = 8.8 TeV the cross section for the DPS process is about 150 pb, i.e. 600 times larger than that in proton-proton collisions at the same centre-of-mass energy and 1.5 times higher than the p-Pb -> (WW +/-)-W-+/- + 2-jets single-parton background. The measurement of such a process, where 10 events with fully leptonic W's decays are expected after cuts in 2 pb(-1), would constitute an unambiguous DPS signal and would help determine the effective sigma(eff) parameter characterising the transverse distribution of partons in the proton. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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页码：1395 / 1400

页数：6