Peripheral heavy ion collisions as a probe of the nuclear gluon distribution

Details Peripheral heavy ion collisions as a probe of the nuclear gluon distribution Peripheral heavy ion collisions as a probe of the nuclear gluon distribution

2001-10-29

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0110370v3

Phys.Rev. C65 (2002) 054905

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

8 figures, accepted for publication in Physicsl review C

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevC.65.054905

At high energies a quark-gluon plasma is expected to be formed in heavy ion collisions at RHIC and LHC. The theoretical description of these processes is directly associated to a complete knowledge of the details of medium effects in the nuclear gluon distribution. In this paper we analyze the possibility to constraint the behavior of this distribution considering peripheral heavy ion collisions. We reanalyze the photoproduction of heavy quarks for the deduction of the in-medium gluon distribution using three current parameterizations for this parton distribution. Moreover, we show that the elastic photoproduction of vector mesons is a potential process to probe the nuclear gluon distribution.

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