Prospects for spin physics at RHIC

G Bunce, N Saito, J Soffer… - Annual Review of …, 2000 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Colliding beams of 70% polarized protons at up to GeV, with high luminosity, L=
2× 1032 cm− 2 sec− 1, will represent a new and unique laboratory for studying the proton …

A fixed-target programme at the LHC: Physics case and projected performances for heavy-ion, hadron, spin and astroparticle studies

C Hadjidakis, D Kikoła, JP Lansberg, L Massacrier… - Physics Reports, 2021 - Elsevier
We review the context, the motivations and the expected performances of a comprehensive
and ambitious fixed-target programme using the multi-TeV proton and ion LHC beams. We …

Global QCD analysis of parton structure of the nucleon: CTEQ5 parton distributions

HL Lai, J Huston, S Kuhlmann, J Morfin… - The European Physical …, 2000 - Springer
An up-to-date global QCD analysis of high energy lepton-hadron and hadron-hadron
interactions is performed to better determine the gluon and quark parton distributions in the …

ALICE: physics performance report, volume II

B Alessandro, F Antinori, JA Belikov… - Journal of Physics G …, 2006 - iopscience.iop.org
ALICE is a general-purpose heavy-ion experiment designed to study the physics of strongly
interacting matter and the quark–gluon plasma in nucleus–nucleus collisions at the LHC. It …

Quark and gluon fragmentation functions into photons

L Bourhis, M Fontannaz, JP Guillet - The European Physical Journal C …, 1998 - Springer
The fragmentation functions of quarks and gluons into photons are studied beyond the
Leading Logarithm approximation. We address the nature of the initial conditions of the …

Recent critical study of photon production in hadronic collisions

P Aurenche, JP Guillet, E Pilon, M Werlen… - Physical Review D …, 2006 - APS
In the light of the new prompt-photon data collected by PHENIX at RHIC and by D0 at the run
II of the Tevatron, we revisit the world prompt-photon data, both inclusive and isolated, in …

Resummation for QCD hard scattering

N Kidonakis, G Sterman - Nuclear Physics B, 1997 - Elsevier
We resum distributions that are singular at partonic threshold (the elastic limit) in heavy
quark production, in terms of logarithmic behavior in moment space. The method may be …

ALICE: Physics performance report, volume I

F Carminati, P Foka, P Giubellino… - Journal of Physics G …, 2004 - iopscience.iop.org
ALICE is a general-purpose heavy-ion experiment designed to study the physics of strongly
interacting matter and the quark–gluon plasma in nucleus–nucleus collisions at the LHC. It …

Quantitative constraints on the gluon distribution function in the proton from collider isolated-photon data

J Rojo - Nuclear Physics B, 2012 - Elsevier
The impact of isolated-photon data from proton–(anti) proton collisions at RHIC, Spp¯ S,
Tevatron and LHC energies, on the parton distribution functions of the proton is studied …

Isolated photon and photon+ jet production at NNLO QCD accuracy

X Chen, T Gehrmann, N Glover, M Höfer… - Journal of High Energy …, 2020 - Springer
A bstract We describe the calculation of the next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) QCD
corrections to isolated photon and photon-plus-jet production, and discuss how the …