کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
10722863 1033810 2011 6 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Mutual boosting of the saturation scales in colliding nuclei
موضوعات مرتبط
مهندسی و علوم پایه فیزیک و نجوم فیزیک هسته ای و انرژی بالا
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Mutual boosting of the saturation scales in colliding nuclei
چکیده انگلیسی
Saturation of small-x gluons in a nucleus, which has the form of transverse momentum broadening of projectile gluons in pA collisions in the nuclear rest frame, leads to a modification of the parton distribution functions in the beam compared with pp collisions. The DGLAP driven gluon distribution turns out to be suppressed at large x, but significantly enhanced at x≪1. This is a high twist effect. In the case of nucleus-nucleus collisions all participating nucleons on both sides get enriched in gluon density at small x, which leads to a further boosting of the saturation scale. We derive reciprocity equations for the saturation scales corresponding to a collision of two nuclei. The solution of these equations for central collisions of two heavy nuclei demonstrate a significant, up to several times, enhancement of QsA2, in AA compared with pA collisions.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Physics Letters B - Volume 697, Issue 4, 14 March 2011, Pages 333-338
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