Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2001-05-25
Nucl.Phys.A700:492-508,2002
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
9 pages, RevTex, 3 Figures; some typos corrected, the scaling of <kt>^2 with dN/dy is derived
Scientific paper
10.1016/S0375-9474(01)01301-X
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.
Dumitru Adrian
McLerran Larry
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