Small-x QCD studies with CMS at the LHC

Abstract

The capabilities of the CMS experiment to study the low-x parton structure and QCD evolution in the proton and the nucleus at LHC energies are presented through four different measurements, to be carried out in Pb-Pb at sqrt(s_NN) = 5.5 TeV: (i) the charged hadron rapidity density $d{N}_{ch}/d\eta$ and (ii) the ultraperipheral (photo)production of Upsilon; and in p-p at sqrt(s) = 14 TeV: (iii) inclusive forward jets and (iv) Mueller-Navelet dijets (separated by $Delta\eta \gtrsim$ 8).

Quark Matter'06 Proceedings. To appear in J.Phys.G

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