Multiple scattering effects on heavy meson production in p+A collisions at backward rapidity

We study the incoherent multiple scattering effects on heavy meson production in the backward rapidity region of p+A collisions within the generalized high-twist factorization formalism. We calculate explicitly the double scattering contributions to the heavy meson differential cross sections by tak...

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Published in:Physics Letters B
Main Authors: Zhong-Bo Kang, Ivan Vitev, Enke Wang, Hongxi Xing, Cheng Zhang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2015-01-01
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269314008260