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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 AuAuAu-Au collisions as measured at RHIC at s=130GeV\sqrt{s}= 130 {GeV} are well described in this approach. The centrality and rapidity dependences of hadron multiplicity at s=200 GeV\sqrt{s}= 200 \ {GeV} 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