Hot spots and gluon field fluctuations as causes of eccentricity in small systems
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2021-05-26 v1 Nuclear Theory
Abstract
We calculate eccentricities in high energy proton-nucleus collisions, by calculating correlation functions of the energy density field of the Glasma immediately after the collision event at proper time tau = 0. We separately consider the effects of color charge and geometrical hot spot fluctuations, analytically performing the averages over both in a dilute-dense limit. We show that geometric fluctuations of hot spots inside the proton are the dominant source of eccentricity whereas color charge fluctuations only give a negligible correction. The size and number of hot spots are the most important parameters characterizing the eccentricities.
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@article{arxiv.2101.03791,
title = {Hot spots and gluon field fluctuations as causes of eccentricity in small systems},
author = {S. Demirci and T. Lappi and S. Schlichting},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.03791},
year = {2021}
}
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21 pages, 9 figures