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Evolution of eccentricities induced by geometrical and quantum fluctuations in proton-nucleus collisions

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2023-05-17 v1

Abstract

We compute the azimuthal eccentricities arising from initial stage fluctuations in high energy proton-nucleus collisions at proper times τ0+\tau \geq 0^+. We consider two sources of fluctuations, namely the geometrical structure of the proton and the fluctuation of color fields carried by both proton and nucleus. Describing these effects with Gaussian models allows us to analytically calculate the one- and two-point correlators of energy density, from which the eccentricities are obtained. We compute the proper time evolution of these quantities by approximating the Glasma dynamics in terms of linearized Yang-Mills equations, which we solve by assuming free field propagation and adopting the dilute-dense limit.

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@article{arxiv.2302.02236,
  title  = {Evolution of eccentricities induced by geometrical and quantum fluctuations in proton-nucleus collisions},
  author = {S. Demirci and P. Guerrero-Rodríguez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.02236},
  year   = {2023}
}

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19 pages, 6 figures