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Parton Saturation at Small x and in Large Nuclei

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2011-08-17 v1

Abstract

Quark and gluon distributions in the light-cone wavefunction of a high energy hadron or nucleus are calculated in the saturation regime. One loop calculations are performed explicitly using the equivalence between the parton distribution in the light-cone wavefunction and the production distribution of that parton in a current-nucleon (nucleus) scattering. We argue that, except for some overall numerical factors, the Weizsacker- Williams wavefunction correctly gives the physics of the gluon distribution in a light-cone wavefunction.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9904404,
  title  = {Parton Saturation at Small x and in Large Nuclei},
  author = {A. H. Mueller},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9904404},
  year   = {2011}
}

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24 pages, 4 figures