Effect of meson cloud on the jet nuclear modification factor in pA collisions
B. G. Zakharov
L.D. Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, 117334 Moscow, Russia
Abstract
We study the effect of the nucleon meson cloud on
centrality dependence of the jet nuclear modification factor RpA.
We find that the meson-baryon Fock components may lead to a
noticeable deviation of RpA from unity.
Our results for RpA show
the same tendency as that
observed by ATLAS in p+Pb collisions at TeV.
The meson cloud suppresses the central jet events and
enhances the peripheral jet events.
But quantitatively the effect is somewhat smaller than in the
data.