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