5–11 Jun 2011
Perugia Congress Center GIO
Europe/Zurich timezone

Role of gluons in soft and semi’hard hadron production in pp collisions at LHC (15' + 5')

9 Jun 2011, 15:10
20m
Trumpet room (Perugia Congress Center GIO)

Trumpet room

Perugia Congress Center GIO

Via R. D'andreotto, Perugia

Speaker

Gennady Lykasov (Joint Inst. for Nuclear Research (JINR))

Description

Hadron inclusive spectra in pp collisions are analyzed within the soft QCD (SQCD), the quark-gluon string model, and the perturbative QCD (PQCD). It is shown that the SQCD results in the satisfactory description of the experimental data on the inclusive spectra of light hadrons like pions and kaons at transverse momenta Pt not larger than 1-2 GeV/c. We discuss some difficulties to apply the SQCD model at energies above the ISR and suggest to include the distribution of gluons in the proton unintegrated over the internal transverse momentum. It leads to an increase in the inclusive spectra of hadrons and allows us to extend the satisfactory description of the data in the central rapidity region at LHC energies. The comparison of our results with data at low Pt allows us to find the information on the unintegrated gluon distribution in proton.

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