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Probing Gluon Saturation through Dihadron Correlations at an Electron-Ion Collider

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2014-04-30 v3 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

Two-particle azimuthal angle correlations have been proposed to be one of the most direct and sensitive probes to access the underlying gluon dynamics involved in hard scatterings. In anticipation of an Electron-Ion Collider (EIC), detailed studies of dihadron correlation measurements in electron-proton and electron-ion collisions at an EIC have been performed. The impact of such measurements on the understanding of the different gluon distribution functions, as a clean signature for gluon saturation and to constrain saturation models further, has been explored. It is shown that dihadron correlation measurements will be one of the key methods to probe gluon saturation phenomena at a future EIC.

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@article{arxiv.1403.2413,
  title  = {Probing Gluon Saturation through Dihadron Correlations at an Electron-Ion Collider},
  author = {L. Zheng and E. C. Aschenauer and J. H. Lee and Bo-Wen Xiao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1403.2413},
  year   = {2014}
}

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13 pages, 13 eps figures