Forward dijet and vector meson production at the LHC

TL;DR

This paper predicts forward jet and vector meson production at the LHC, testing saturation effects with comparisons to data, and discusses the implications of different QCD evolution equations.

Contribution

It provides new predictions for jet and vector meson production in the forward region at the LHC, testing saturation models with experimental data.

Findings

Data favor the observation of saturation effects at the LHC.

Comparisons show the relevance of BK and BFKL evolution equations.

Predictions for the FOCAL region of ALICE are detailed.

Abstract

We first describe the predictions concerning jet production in the very forward region, especially in the FOCAL kinematic region of the ALICE collaboration at CERN as a test of saturation. We also compare vector meson production cross sections at the LHC in Pb Pb and p Pb collisions with the Balitsky Fadin Kuraev Lipatov and the Balitsky Kovchegov evolution equations and data favor the observation of saturation at the LHC.