Hadron-jet correlations in high-energy hadronic collisions at the LHC

Abstract

The inclusive production at the LHC of a charged light hadron and of a jet, featuring a wide separation in rapidity, is suggested as a new probe process for the investigation of the BFKL mechanism of resummation of energy logarithms in the QCD perturbative series. We present some predictions, tailored on the CMS and CASTOR acceptances, for the cross section averaged over the azimuthal angle between the identified jet and hadron and for azimuthal correlations.

Comments: 19 pages, 6 figures; few typos corrected and one reference updated during proof reading; version published on Eur. Phys. J. C. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1701.05077