Manifestations of high density QCD in the first RHIC data
Nuclear Theory
2008-11-26 v3 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract
We derive a simple analytical scaling function which embodies the predictions of high density QCD on the energy, centrality, rapidity, and atomic number dependences of hadron multiplicities in nuclear collisions. Both centrality and rapidity dependences of hadron multiplicity in collisions as measured at RHIC at are well described in this approach. The centrality and rapidity dependences of hadron multiplicity at run at RHIC are predicted; the variation of these dependences with energy appear different from other approaches, and can be used as an important test of the ideas based on parton saturation and classical Chromo-Dynamics.
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@article{arxiv.nucl-th/0108006,
title = {Manifestations of high density QCD in the first RHIC data},
author = {D. Kharzeev and E. Levin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/0108006},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
15 pages, 7 figures; final journal version - 3 typos corrected, discussion extended