How Protons Shatter Colored Glass
By A. Dumitru, Larry McLerran. 2001
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We consider the implications of the Color Glass Condensate for the central region of p+A collisions. We compute the k_t distribution of radiated gluons and their rapidity distribution dN/dy analytically, both in the perturbative regime and in the region between the two saturation momenta. We find an analytic expression for the number of produced gluons which is valid when the saturation momentum of the proton is much less than that of the nucleus. We discuss the scaling of the produced multiplicity with A. We show that the slope of the rapidity density dN/dy provides an experimental measure for the renormalization-group evolution of the color charge density of the Color Glass Condensate (CGC). We also argue that these results are easily generalized to collisions of nuclei of different A at central rapidity, or with the same A but at a rapidity far from the central region.
Subfields: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
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- The Colour Glass Condensate : An Introduction (2001, background): “n-nucleus (eA) deeply inelastic scattering has been recently summarized in [28]. Some implications of the Colour Glass Condensate for the central region of p +A collisions have been explored in Refs. [29, 30]. Instantons in the saturation environment have been considered in Ref. [31]. 14 2 The class”