A perturbative QCD study of dijets in p+Pb collisions at the LHC
arXiv:1308.6733 · doi:10.1007/JHEP10(2013)213
Abstract
Inspired by the recent measurements of the CMS collaboration, we report a QCD study of dijet production in proton+lead collisions at the LHC involving large-transverse-momentum jets, GeV. Examining the inherent uncertainties of the next-to-leading order perturbative QCD calculations and their sensitivity to the free proton parton distributions (PDFs), we observe a rather small, typically much less than 5% clearance for the shape of the dijet rapidity distribution within approximately 1.5 units around the midrapidity. Even a more stable observable is the ratio between the yields in the positive and negative dijet rapidity, for which the baseline uncertainty can be made negligible by imposing a symmetric jet rapidity acceptance. Both observables prove sensitive to the nuclear modifications of the gluon distributions, the corresponding uncertainties clearly exceeding the estimated baseline uncertainties from the free-proton PDFs and scale dependence. From a theoretical point of view, these observables are therefore very suitable for testing the validity of the collinear factorization and have a high potential to provide precision constraints for the nuclear PDFs.
16 pages. The version to be published. Figures 6 and 7 replaced. Some further discussion added
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