Eur. Phys. J. A (2004) 19: 229-237
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjad/s2004-03-038-4

Cold and hot nuclear matter

production in proton-proton and proton-nucleus collisions at the CERN LHC

Dipartimento di Fisica Teorica dell’Università di Trieste and INFN, Sezione di Trieste, Strada Costiera 11, Miramare-Grignano, I-34014 Trieste, Italy

Received: 27 July 2003
Published online: 12 February 2004

Abstract

Given the large parton luminosities, sizable rate of events, with several pairs of b-quarks produced contemporarily by multiple parton interactions, are foreseen in hadronic and nuclear collisions at very high energies. We compare the different contributions to production, due to single and double parton scatterings, in pp and in pA collisions at the CERN LHC within the acceptance of the ALICE and of the LHCb detectors.