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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