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Probing proton PDFs at high x with LHCb
by Thomas Boettcher on behalf of the LHCb Collaboration
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Submission summary
| Authors (as registered SciPost users): | Thomas Boettcher |
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| Preprint Link: | scipost_202107_00091v2 (pdf) |
| Date accepted: | Feb. 28, 2022 |
| Date submitted: | Sept. 14, 2021, 2:20 a.m. |
| Submitted by: | Thomas Boettcher |
| Submitted to: | SciPost Physics Proceedings |
| Proceedings issue: | 28th Annual Workshop on Deep-Inelastic Scattering (DIS) and Related Subjects (DIS2021) |
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| Academic field: | Physics |
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| Approach: | Experimental |
Abstract
LHCb is a forward spectrometer at the LHC covering the pseudorapidity region $2<\eta<5$. Because of this forward coverage, LHCb can probe the proton parton distribution functions (PDFs) in previously unexplored kinematic regimes, in particular at very high and low Bjorken-$x$. This contribution presents LHCb measurements that can be used to constrain the proton PDFs, with a focus on the high-$x$ and high-$Q^2$ regime.
Published as SciPost Phys. Proc. 8, 093 (2022)