Diphoton production in high-energy p plus A collisions

作者:Kovner Alex*; Rezaeian Amir H
来源:PHYSICAL REVIEW D, 2014, 90(1): 014031.
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevD.90.014031

摘要

We consider semi-inclusive diphoton+jet and inclusive diphoton production in high-energy proton-nucleus collisions, treating the target nucleus as a color-glass condensate and the projectile proton in the parton model. We obtain the prompt diphoton production cross section in terms of fragmentation and direct contributions. The fragmentation part is given in terms of single-photon and double-photon fragmentation functions. We study prompt, direct, and fragmentation diphoton correlations in p+p and p+A collisions at the LHC and show that at low values of transverse momenta of the produced photon pair these correlations are sensitive to saturation effects. We show that back-to-back (de) correlations in prompt diphoton production are stronger in the fragmentation part than in the direct one.