Measuring Double Parton Distributions in Nucleons at Proton-Nucleus Colliders
arXiv:hep-ph/0111468 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.031801
Abstract
We predict a strong enhancement of multijet production in proton-nucleus collisions at collider energies, as compared to a naive expectation of a cross section $\propto A$. The study of the process would allow to measure, for the first time, the double parton distribution functions in a nucleon in a model independent way and hence to study both the longitudinal and the transverse correlations of partons.
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