Effects of Parton kt in High-pt Particle Production
Abstract
We report on recent work concerning the phenomenology of initial-state parton-kt effects in direct-photon production and related processes in hadron collisions. After a brief summary of a kt-smearing model, we present a study of recent results on fixed-target and collider direct-photon production, using complementary data on diphoton and pion production that provide empirical guidance on the required amount of kt broadening. This approach provides a consistent description of the observed deviations of next-to-leading order QCD calculations relative to the inclusive direct-photon and pizero data. We also comment on the implications of these results for the extraction of the gluon distribution of the nucleon.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- November 1998
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.hep-ph/9811278
- arXiv:
- arXiv:hep-ph/9811278
- Bibcode:
- 1998hep.ph...11278Z
- Keywords:
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- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
- E-Print:
- Talk given at Hadron Structure '98, Stara Lesna, September 7-13, 1998