arXiv:hep-ph/9710490·v1·High Energy Physics — Phenomenology
Probing small-x parton densities in proton- proton (-nucleus) collisions in the very forward direction
L. Alvero🇺🇸 · J. C. Collins🇺🇸 · M. Strikman🇺🇸 · J. J. Whitmore (Penn. State University, U.S.A.)🇺🇸
Abstract
We present calculations of several pp scattering cross sections with potential applications at the LHC. Significantly large rates for momentum fraction, x, as low as 10^-7 are obtained, allowing for possible extraction of quark and gluon densities in the proton and nuclei down to these small x values provided a detector with good acceptance at maximal rapidities is used.
Comments: 14 pages, LaTeX, 12 figures, uses revtex.sty