Date: Thursday March 10, 2016 at 4pm
Location: 223 Herman Brown Hall, Rice University
Title: Nuclear Gluon Effects In Gamma+Pb Collisions at the LHC
Speaker: Daniel Tapia Takaki (Univ. Kansas)
Abstract: By studying quarkonia photo-nuclear production, the ALICE and CMS collaborations have recently provided experimental evidence of nuclear gluon effects in gamma+Pb interactions at unprecedentedly low Bjorken-x values in the Pb nucleus. In this talk, an experimental and theoretical review about these studies will be given. The prospect of innovative measurements using the run 2 data at the LHC will be described.