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Tracing the origin of azimuthal gluon correlations in the color glass condensate
Soeren SchlichtingBjörn SchenkeRaju VenugopalanRaju VenugopalanTuomas LappiTuomas Lappisubject
Nuclear and High Energy PhysicsParticle physicsNuclear TheoryField (physics)LARGE NUCLEIFOS: Physical sciencesParton01 natural sciencesFLUX TUBES114 Physical sciencesColor-glass condensateNuclear Theory (nucl-th)High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)DEPENDENCE0103 physical sciencesEffective field theorySCATTERINGStatistical physicsLIGHT ION COLLISIONSheavy ion phenomenology010306 general physicsNuclear ExperimentFourier seriesPhysicsta114010308 nuclear & particles physicsScatteringPB COLLISIONSQUARKTRANSVERSE-MOMENTUMENERGY PA-COLLISIONSQCD phenomenologyEVOLUTION3. Good healthGluonAzimuthHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenologydescription
We examine the origins of azimuthal correlations observed in high energy proton-nucleus collisions by considering the simple example of the scattering of uncorrelated partons off color fields in a large nucleus. We demonstrate how the physics of fluctuating color fields in the color glass condensate (CGC) effective theory generates these azimuthal multiparticle correlations and compute the corresponding Fourier coefficients v_n within different CGC approximation schemes. We discuss in detail the qualitative and quantitative differences between the different schemes. We will show how a recently introduced color field domain model that captures key features of the observed azimuthal correlations can be understood in the CGC effective theory as a model of non-Gaussian correlations in the target nucleus.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-01-11 | Journal of High Energy Physics |