Probing colored glass via $q\bar{q}$ photoproduction
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2008-11-26 v2 Nuclear Theory
Abstract
In this paper, we calculate the cross-section for the photoproduction of quark-antiquark pairs in the peripheral collision of ultra-relativistic nuclei, by treating the color field of the nuclei within the Color Glass Condensate model. We find that this cross-section is sensitive to the saturation scale that characterizes the model. In particular, the transverse momentum spectrum of the produced pairs could be used to measure the properties of the color glass condensate.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0107142,
title = {Probing colored glass via $q\bar{q}$ photoproduction},
author = {F. Gelis and A. Peshier},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0107142},
year = {2008}
}
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25 pages LaTeX document - A reference and some footnotes added (version to appear in Nucl. Phys. A)