Nuclear suppression in diffractive vector meson production within the color glass condensate framework
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2025-09-01 v1 Nuclear Theory
Abstract
We perform a global Bayesian analysis of diffractive production in and collisions within a Color Glass Condensate based framework. Using data from HERA and the LHC, we find that a simultaneous description of and observables is challenging. Introducing a global -factor to account for theoretical uncertainties improves the agreement with data and enhances the framework's predictive power. We present predictions for integrated cross sections at different photon-nucleus energies and study their -dependence relative to a no-saturation baseline, quantifying nuclear suppression and providing insights into the onset of saturation effects.
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@article{arxiv.2508.21562,
title = {Nuclear suppression in diffractive vector meson production within the color glass condensate framework},
author = {Heikki Mäntysaari and Hendrik Roch and Farid Salazar and Björn Schenke and Chun Shen and Wenbin Zhao},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.21562},
year = {2025}
}
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Proceedings for talk by H.R. at the Quark Matter 2025 conference