Parton densities and dipole cross-sections at small x in large nuclei
Abstract
Unintegrated gluon densities in nuclei, dipole-nucleus cross-sections and quark densities are numerically investigated in the high-colour limit, with the scattering on a heavy nucleus exactly described by the sum of fan diagrams of BFKL pomerons. The initial condition for the evolution in rapidity is quickly forgotten, and the gluon density presents a "supersaturation" pattern, as previous studies indicated. Both dipole-nucleus cross-sections and quark densities present the expected saturation features. Identifying the position in transverse momentum of the maximum of the gluon distribution with the saturation momentum , at large rapidities all distributions depend only on one variable or .
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0104038,
title = {Parton densities and dipole cross-sections at small x in large nuclei},
author = {N. Armesto and M. A. Braun},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0104038},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
LaTeX, 13 pages, 6 figures in encapsulated postscript included using epsfig; final version, with two added references plus comments, some further clarification, results and conclusions unchanged