Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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8193430 | Physics Letters B | 2010 | 6 Pages |
Abstract
Using the unintegrated gluon distribution obtained from numerical simulations of the Balitsky-Kovchegov equation with running coupling, we obtain a very good description of RHIC data on single inclusive hadron production at forward rapidities in both p + p and d + Au collisions. No K-factors are needed for charged hadrons, whereas for pion production a rapidity independent K-factor of order 1/3 is needed. Extrapolating to LHC energies, we calculate nuclear modification factors for light hadrons in p + Pb collision, as well as the contribution of initial state effects to the suppression of the nuclear modification factor in Pb + Pb collisions.
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Authors
Javier L. Albacete, Cyrille Marquet,