Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2011-02-24
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
6 pages, 4 figures
Scientific paper
We predict readily experimentally measurable differences in the diffractive cross section in the coherent exclusive photoproduction of J/psi mesons in e + A collisions at eRHIC and LHeC energies for nuclear gluon distributions assumed to 1) evolve in x with DGLAP dynamics and have a spatial distribution proportional to the Glauber nuclear thickness function and 2) evolve in x and b according to the KLN prescription of CGC dynamics. We find that CGC physics predicts that the nuclear gluon density widens significantly as a function of x yielding diffractive peaks and minima that evolve dramatically with x; on the other hand the DGLAP Glauber distribution yields peaks and minima constant in x. We also find that the dipole cross section at the level of two gluon exchange within the KLN parameterization of the CGC satisfies the black disk limit whereas this limit is violated when DGLAP evolution is used; the normalization of the diffractive cross section grows more slowly in x by several orders of magnitude when using the KLN parameterization as compared to the result when employing DGLAP evolution.
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