RESEARCH ARTICLE
Emergence and Violation of Geometrical Scaling in pp Collisions§
Michal Praszalowicz*
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2014Volume: 1
Issue: Suppl 1: M5
First Page: 43
Last Page: 47
Publisher Id: PHY-1-43
DOI: 10.2174/1874843001401010043
Article History:
Received Date: 25/11/2013Revision Received Date: 29/1/2014
Acceptance Date: 30/1/2014
Electronic publication date: 31/12/2014
Collection year: 2014
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Abstract
We argue that geometrical scaling (GS) proposed originally in the context of Deep Inelastic Scattering (DIS) at HERA works also in pp collisions at the LHC energies and in NA61/SHINE experiment. We show that in DIS GS is working up to relatively large Bjorken x ~ 0.1 . As a consequence negative pion multiplicity pT distributions at NA61/SHINE energies exhibit GS in mid rapidity region. For y ≠ 0 clear sign of scaling violations can be seen when one of the colliding partons has Bjorken x ≥ 0.1 . Finally, we argue that in the case of identified particles GS scaling is still present but the scaling variable is a function of transverse mass rather than pT.
PACS number(s): 13.85.Ni,12.38.Lg.