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Heavy ion collision multiplicities and gluon distribution functions

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2014-11-17 v1

Abstract

Atomic number (AA) and energy (\roots\roots) scaling exponents of multiplicity and transverse energy in heavy ion collisions are analytically derived in the perturbative QCD + saturation model. The exponents depend on the small-xx behaviour of gluon distribution functions at an xx-dependent scale. The relation between initial state and final state saturation is also discussed.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0106330,
  title  = {Heavy ion collision multiplicities and gluon distribution functions},
  author = {K. J. Eskola and K. Kajantie and K. Tuominen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0106330},
  year   = {2014}
}

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15 pages, 4 eps-figures

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