A Monte Carlo generator of nucleon configurations in complex nuclei including Nucleon-Nucleon correlations

Details A Monte Carlo generator of nucleon configurations in complex nuclei including Nucleon-Nucleon correlations A Monte Carlo generator of nucleon configurations in complex nuclei including Nucleon-Nucleon correlations

2009-05-16

arxiv.org/abs/0905.2670v2

Physics

Nuclear Physics

Nuclear Theory

7 pages, 8 figures; removed one figure, reduced length; to be published in Phys. Lett. B

Scientific paper

10.1016/j.physletb.2009.08.067

We developed a Monte Carlo event generator for production of nucleon configurations in complex nuclei consistently including effects of Nucleon-Nucleon (NN) correlations. Our approach is based on the Metropolis search for configurations satisfying essential constraints imposed by short- and long-range NN correlations, guided by the findings of realistic calculations of one- and two-body densities for medium-heavy nuclei. The produced event generator can be used for Monte Carlo (MC) studies of pA and AA collisions. We perform several tests of consistency of the code and comparison with previous models, in the case of high energy proton-nucleus scattering on an event-by-event basis, using nucleus configurations produced by our code and Glauber multiple scattering theory both for the uncorrelated and the correlated configurations; fluctuations of the average number of collisions are shown to be affected considerably by the introduction of NN correlations in the target nucleus. We also use the generator to estimate maximal possible gluon nuclear shadowing in a simple geometric model.

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