High energy pA collisions in the color glass condensate approach II: quark pair production

Blaizot, Jean‐Paul; Gelis, François; Venugopalan, Raju

doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2004.07.006

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“…Consider for instance, one of the tree subdiagrams contained in eq. (58). Summing over the + or − indices of the "leaves" (or "blobs") of the tree, the outer layer of propagators is transformed into retarded propagators, thanks to eqs.…”

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Particle production in field theories coupled to strong external sources, I: Formalism and main results

2006

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We develop a formalism for particle production in a field theory coupled to a strong time-dependent external source. An example of such a theory is the Color Glass Condensate. We derive a formula, in terms of cut vacuum-vacuum Feynman graphs, for the probability of producing a given number of particles. This formula is valid to all orders in the coupling constant. The distribution of multiplicities is non-Poissonian, even in the classical approximation. We investigate an alternative method of calculating the mean multiplicity. At leading order, the average multiplicity can be expressed in terms of retarded solutions of classical equations of motion. We demonstrate that the average multiplicity at next-to-leading order can be formulated as an initial value problem by solving equations of motion for small fluctuation fields with retarded boundary conditions. The variance of the distribution can be calculated in a similar fashion. Our formalism therefore provides a framework to compute from first principles particle production in proton-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus collisions beyond leading order in the coupling constant and to all orders in the source density. We also provide a transparent interpretation (in conventional field theory language) of the well known Abramovsky-Gribov-Kancheli (AGK) cancellations. Explicit connections are made between the framework for multi-particle production developed here and the framework of Reggeon field theory.

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Particle production in field theories coupled to strong external sources, I: Formalism and main results

2006

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“…In this Gaussian approximation, one can compute the 2-point, 3-point and 4-point correlators in closed form [38,88,89,54,55,56,90, 1] -see Appendix A of ref. [1] for the explicit expressions for arbitrary N . We quote here the large N limits for these correlators because only these are used in the discussion of the energy evolution of correlators 13 :…”

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“…[1]. A full treatment of multiple scattering and quantum evolution effects at high energies requires a computation of the previously mentioned 2-point, 3-point and 4-point correlation functions as a function of x, or of the rapidity Y (= ln(1/x)).…”

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“…Numerical solutions of the Balitsky-Kovchegov equation are known in the fixed coupling [42,43,44,45,46,47] and running coupling [39,48] cases 3 . In the large N and large A limit, the 3-point and 4-point correlators also simplify [54,55,56,1] and their evolution in x can be expressed in terms of the solution of the BK equation. These are computed numerically in this paper.…”

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Quark pair production in high energy pA collisions: General features

2006

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A consistent treatment of both multiple scattering and small x quantum evolution effects on pair production in high energy pA collisions is feasible in the framework of the Color Glass Condensate (CGC) [1]. We first discuss the properties of quark pair production in the classical effective theory where only multiple scattering effects are included. Explicit results are given for pair production as a function of the invariant mass of pairs, the pair momenta, the atomic mass number A and the quark mass. We relate the logarithms that appear in our formulation of pair production to logarithms that appear in the limit of collinear factorization in QCD. Violations of k ⊥ factorization and medium modifications, as represented by the Cronin effect, are also investigated. We next consider how small x quantum evolution (shadowing) effects modify the results for pair production. In particular, we provide results for the rapidity distribution of pairs and the dependence of the Cronin effect on rapidity. We discuss the dependence of our results on the initial conditions for small x evolution and comment on its implications for pair production at RHIC and the LHC.1 URA 2306 du CNRS.

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“…Regarding the initial saturation scale, we choose Q 2 s0,A = 3Q 2 s0,p for the heavy nuclei, Au and Pb. 4 As to the transverse radius of the nucleus, we determine it by imposing the nuclear modification factor R pA = 1 at high p ⊥ . The results obtained by Eq.…”

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Leptons from heavy-quark semileptonic decay in pA collisions within the CGC framework

Fujii

Watanabe

2016

Nuclear Physics A

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We study single lepton production from semileptonic decays of heavy flavor hadrons (D, B → l) in pp and pA collisions at RHIC and the LHC within the saturation/Color-Glass-Condensate (CGC) framework. Using the gluon distribution function obtained with the dipole amplitude, whose energy dependence is described by the Balitsky-Kovchegov equation with running coupling effect, we compute the transverse-momentum (p ⊥ ) spectra of the lepton yields at mid and forward rapidities. We find that a large fraction of leptons at low p ⊥ stems from the saturation regime of the incoming gluons in the target, especially in pA collisions at the LHC. The resultant p ⊥ spectra is slightly harder than the data, but the nuclear modification factor seems consistent with the data within some uncertainty. We also update the nuclear modification factors for J/ψ and D meson at the LHC energy.

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High energy pA collisions in the color glass condensate approach II: quark pair production

Cited by 264 publications

References 47 publications

Particle production in field theories coupled to strong external sources, I: Formalism and main results

Particle production in field theories coupled to strong external sources, I: Formalism and main results

Quark pair production in high energy pA collisions: General features

Leptons from heavy-quark semileptonic decay in pA collisions within the CGC framework

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