# Inclusive Production Through AdS/CFT

## TL;DR

This paper uses AdS/CFT correspondence to calculate inclusive single-particle production cross sections in high-energy QCD, revealing a power-law behavior in transverse momentum consistent with experimental data.

## Contribution

It extends previous AdS/CFT approaches to inclusive processes, deriving a universal power-law falloff in transverse momentum based on conformal invariance.

## Key findings

- Power-law transverse momentum distribution with exponent twice the conformal dimension.
- Good agreement with recent LHC experimental data.
- Conformal invariance constrains high-energy inclusive cross sections.

## Abstract

It has been shown that AdS/CFT calculations can reproduce certain exclusive 2->2 cross sections in QCD at high energy, both for near-forward and for fixed-angle scattering. In this paper, we extend prior treatments by using AdS/CFT to calculate the inclusive single-particle production cross section in QCD at high center-of-mass energy. We find that conformal invariance in the UV restricts the cross section to have a characteristic power-law falloff in the transverse momentum of the produced particle, with the exponent given by twice the conformal dimension of the produced particle, independent of incoming particle types. We conclude by comparing our findings to recent LHC experimental data from ATLAS and ALICE, and find good agreement.