Manifestations of high density QCD in the first RHIC data

By D. Kharzeev, E. Levin. 2001

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Abstract We derive a simple analytical scaling function which embodies the predictions of high density QCD on the energy, centrality, rapidity, and atomic number dependences of hadron multiplicities in nuclear collisions. Both centrality and rapidity dependences of hadron multiplicity in Au–Au collisions as measured at RHIC at s =130  GeV are well described in this approach. The centrality and rapidity dependences of hadron multiplicity at s =200  GeV run at RHIC are predicted; the variation of these dependences with energy appear different from other approaches, and can be used as an important test of the ideas based on parton saturation and classical Chromo-Dynamics.

Subfields: Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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• Formation of dense partonic matter in relativistic nucleus–nucleus collisions at RHIC: Experimental evaluation by the PHENIX Collaboration (2004, background): ““HIJING” is a pQCD-based model [71], while “KLN” features gluon saturation in the initial state [72,73]; “EKRT” assumes saturation in the final state [74,75].”