Gluon saturation in pA collisions at energies available at the CERN Large Hadron Collider: Predictions for hadron multiplicities

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作者
Dumitru, Adrian [1 ,2 ]
Kharzeev, Dmitri E. [3 ,4 ]
Levin, Eugene M. [5 ,6 ,7 ]
Nara, Yasushi [8 ]
机构
[1] Brookhaven Natl Lab, RIKEN BNL Res Ctr, Upton, NY 11973 USA
[2] CUNY, Baruch Coll, Dept Nat Sci, New York, NY 10010 USA
[3] SUNY Stony Brook, Dept Phys & Astron, Stony Brook, NY 11794 USA
[4] Brookhaven Natl Lab, Dept Phys, Upton, NY 11973 USA
[5] Tel Aviv Univ, Sch Phys & Astron, Dept Particle Phys, IL-69978 Tel Aviv, Israel
[6] Univ Tecn Federico Santa Maria, Ctr Estudios Subatom, Dept Fis, Valparaiso, Chile
[7] Ctr Cient Tecnol Valparaiso, Valparaiso, Chile
[8] Akita Int Univ, Akita 0101292, Japan
来源
PHYSICAL REVIEW C | 2012年 / 85卷 / 04期
关键词
CHARGED-PARTICLE MULTIPLICITY; COLOR GLASS CONDENSATE; AU COLLISIONS; QCD; EQUATION;
D O I
10.1103/PhysRevC.85.044920
中图分类号
O57 [原子核物理学、高能物理学];
学科分类号
070202 ;
摘要
The upcoming p + Pb run at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will probe the nuclear gluon distribution at very small Bjorken x (from x similar to 10(-4) at midrapidity down to x similar to 10(-6) in the proton fragmentation region) and will allow testing of approaches based on parton saturation. Here, we present the predictions of the Kharzeev-Levin-Nardi model for hadron multiplicities and multiplicity distributions in p + Pb collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 4.4 TeV. We also compare the model to the existing pp, dA, and AA data from the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and LHC.
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