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This work explores meson and isolated photon production in high-multiplicity proton-proton (pp) collisions at fixed energy and forward rapidities using the Color Glass Condensate (CGC) framework with running coupling Balitsky-Kovchegov (BK) solutions for the unintegrated gluon distribution. Self-normalized yields of these particles are studied as a function of charged hadron multiplicity and compared to experimental data when possible. We point that the simultaneous analysis of isolated photons and hadronic final states in high-multiplicity events may provide a test the CGC formalism and highlights the potential to disentangle initial- and final-state effects in high-energy hadronic collisions.
Based on: Y. N. Lima, A. V. Giannini and V. P. Goncalves, Phys. Rev. C 106, no.6, 065206 (2022), Eur. Phys. J. A 60, no.3, 54 (2024), Phys. Rev. D 109 (2024) 9, 094035.
