Inelastic shadowing of secondary pi+-, K+-, p, and bar(p) produced in p+Pb collisions at LHC energy

TL;DR

This paper models secondary particle production in p+Pb collisions at LHC energies, showing that inelastic screening effects significantly reduce the spectra at midrapidity, highlighting the importance of percolation effects.

Contribution

It introduces inelastic screening corrections within the Quark-Gluon String Model to better predict particle spectra at high energies.

Findings

Inelastic screening effects reduce spectra by more than 2 times at 5 TeV.

Percolation effects are significant at LHC energies.

Model predictions align with expected high-energy collision phenomena.

Abstract

The inclusive spectra of secondaries produced in soft (minimum-bias) p+Pb collisions at LHC energy are calculated in the frame of the Quark-Gluon String Model, by including the inelastic screening corrections (percolation effects). These effects are expected to be quite large at the very high energies, and they should drive down the spectra in the midrapidity region more than 2 times, at sqrt(sNN)=5 TeV.