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Nucleon Energy Correlators for the Color Glass Condensate

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2023-05-15 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment Nuclear Experiment Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We demonstrate the recently proposed nucleon energy-energy correlator (nucleon EEC) fEEC(x,θ)f_{\rm EEC}(x,\theta) can unveil the gluon saturation in the small-xx regime in eAeA collisions. The novelty of this probe is that it is fully inclusive just like the deep-inelastic scattering (DIS), with no requirements of jets or hadrons, but still provides an evident portal to the small-xx dynamics through the shape of the θ\theta-distribution. We find that the saturation prediction is significantly different from the expectation of the collinear factorization.

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@article{arxiv.2301.01788,
  title  = {Nucleon Energy Correlators for the Color Glass Condensate},
  author = {Hao-Yu Liu and Xiaohui Liu and Ji-Chen Pan and Feng Yuan and Hua Xing Zhu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.01788},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

7+3pages, 5+1 figures, to match with the published version