Double parton distributions incorporating perturbative QCD evolution and momentum and quark number sum rules

DOI10.1007/JHEP03(2010)005zbMATH Open1271.81176arXiv0910.4347OpenAlexW2158025051MaRDI QIDQ365091FDOQ365091

Authors: Jonathan R. Gaunt, W. J. Stirling 

Publication date: 3 September 2013

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: It is anticipated that hard double parton scatterings will occur frequently in the collisions of the LHC, producing interesting signals and significant backgrounds to certain single scattering processes. For double scattering processes in which the same hard scale t = ln(Q^2) is involved in both collisions, we require the double parton distributions (dPDFs) D_h^{j_1j_2}(x_1,x_2;t) in order to make theoretical predictions of their rates and properties. We describe the development of a new set of leading order dPDFs that represents an improvement on approaches used previously. First, we derive momentum and number sum rules that the dPDFs must satisfy. The fact that these must be obeyed at any scale is used to construct improved dPDFs at the input scale Q_0, for a particular choice of input scale (Q_0^2 = 1 GeV^2) and corresponding single PDFs (the MSTW2008LO set). We then describe a novel program which uses a direct x-space method to numerically integrate the LO DGLAP equation for the dPDFs, and which may be used to evolve the input dPDFs to any other scale. This program has been used along with the improved input dPDFs to produce a set of publicly available dPDF grids covering the ranges 10^{-6}<x_1<1, 10^{-6}<x_2<1, and 1<Q^2<10^9 GeV^2.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0910.4347

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zbMATH Keywords

QCD phenomenology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nuclear physics (81V35) Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T15) Inelastic and multichannel quantum scattering (81U35) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05)

Cites Work

• Parton distributions for the LHC

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• The infrared structure of perturbative gauge theories
• Resumming double logarithms in the QCD evolution of color dipoles
• Positivity bounds on double parton distributions
• Two-loop evolution kernels for colour dependent double parton distributions
• Double parton scattering singularity in one-loop integrals
• Elements of a theory for multiparton interactions in QCD
• Parton distributions for event generators
• Constraining the double gluon distribution by the single gluon distribution
• Double-quarkonium production at a fixed-target experiment at the LHC (AFTER{\@}LHC)

Uses Software

• QCDNUM16
• HOPPET
• QCD-PEGASUS

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