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Review of proton and nuclear shape fluctuations at high energy
Heikki Mäntysaarisubject
protonitProtonNuclear TheoryHadronNuclear TheoryFOS: Physical sciencesGeneral Physics and AstronomyPartonhiukkasfysiikka01 natural scienceslaw.inventionColor-glass condensateHigh Energy Physics - ExperimentnukleonitNuclear Theory (nucl-th)Nuclear physicsHigh Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)law0103 physical sciencesNuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)010306 general physicsColliderNuclear ExperimentNuclear ExperimentQuantum fluctuationQuantum chromodynamicsPhysicsHigh Energy Physics - PhenomenologyQuark–gluon plasmaPhysics::Accelerator PhysicsHigh Energy Physics::Experimentydinfysiikkadescription
Determining the inner structure of protons and nuclei in terms of their fundamental constituents has been one of the main tasks of high energy nuclear and particle physics experiments. This quest started as a mapping of the (average) parton densities as a function of longitudinal momentum fraction and resolution scale. Recently, the field has progressed to more differential imaging, where one important development is the description of the event-by-event quantum fluctuations in the wave function of the colliding hadron. In this Review, recent developments on the extraction of proton and nuclear transverse geometry with event-by-event fluctuations from collider experiments at high energy is presented. The importance of this fundamentally interesting physics in other collider experiments like in studies of the properties of the Quark Gluon Plasma is also illustrated.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-01-29 |