Searching for TMD-Factorization Breaking in p + p and p + A Collisions: Color Interactions in QCD

Dihadron and isolated direct photon-hadron angular correlations have been measured in p + p and p+A collisions to investigate possible effects from transverse-momentum-dependent factorization breaking due to color exchange between partons involved in the hard scattering and the proton remnants. The correlations are sensitive to nonperturbative initial-state and final-state transverse momentum k_T and j_T in the azimuthal nearly back-to-back region Δφ ∼ π. In this region, transverse-momentum-dependent evolution can be studied when several different hard scales are measured. To have sensitivity to small transverse momentum scales, nonperturbative momentum widths of p_out, the out-of-plane transverse momentum component perpendicular to the trigger particle, are measured. To quantify the magnitude of any transverse-momentum-dependent factorization breaking effects, calculations will need to be performed for comparison.