Gluon saturation in pA collisions at energies available at the CERN Large Hadron Collider: Predictions for hadron multiplicities

Adrian Dumitru*, Dmitri E. Kharzeev, Eugene M. Levin, Yasushi Nara

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Abstract

The upcoming p+Pb run at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will probe the nuclear gluon distribution at very small Bjorken x (from x∼10-4 at midrapidity down to x∼10-6 in the proton fragmentation region) and will allow testing of approaches based on parton saturation. Here, we present the predictions of the Kharzeev-Levin-Nardi model for hadron multiplicities and multiplicity distributions in p+Pb collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 4.4 TeV. We also compare the model to the existing pp, dA, and AA data from the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and LHC.

Original languageEnglish
Article number044920
JournalPhysical Review C - Nuclear Physics
Volume85
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - 20 Apr 2012

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