Predictions for charged-hadron production in $p$-O collisions at LHC energies

TL;DR

This paper predicts how many charged hadrons will be produced in proton-oxygen collisions at LHC energies, using a nonequilibrium-statistical model with color-glass condensate initial conditions, to compare with upcoming experimental data.

Contribution

It introduces a novel prediction framework for charged-hadron production in p-O collisions at LHC energies using a relativistic diffusion model with color-glass condensate initial conditions.

Findings

Predicted pseudorapidity distributions for p-O collisions at 9.618 TeV.

Model incorporates three-source momentum-space approach.

Results set to be validated with upcoming Run3 data.

Abstract

We present predictions for centrality-dependent charged-hadron production in p-O collisions at top LHC energies based on a nonequilibrium-statistical relativistic diffusion model. Colour-glass condensate initial conditions are used in a three-sources momentum-space model for gluon-gluon, quark-gluon and gluon-quark sources. Our results are to be compared with forthcoming Run3 pseudorapidity distributions for sqrt(s_NN)=9.618 TeV p-O collisions.