Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2001-12-03
Phys.Rev. D65 (2002) 074034
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
7 pages RevTeX4, 1 .eps figure
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.65.074034
We phenomenologically study whether partonic collisions responsible for the growth of hadron-hadron cross sections at high energy can be ascribed to instanton-induced processes. Although non-perturbative in nature, these interactions occur at the semi-hard scale $Q\sim 1-2$ GeV, and should therefore be described using information from deep inelastic leptonic scattering on the partonic constituents in nucleons, pions, and photons. After considering shadowing corrections in nucleon-nucleon scattering, we fix a free instanton tail suppression parameter and determine the effective quark-quark cross section. The resulting contributions to $NN$, $\pi N$, $\gamma N$, and $\gamma\gamma$ cross sections all $increase$ with energy differently, but in reasonable agreement with experimental data. We then proceed to an estimate of the number of such processes present in high energy Au-Au collisions at RHIC, finding that the amount of entropy produced by instanton/sphaleron events matches the observed amount.
Carter Gregory W.
Ostrovsky D. M.
Shuryak Edward V.
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