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Spin-glass model of QCD near saturation

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v3 Statistical Mechanics High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We establish a connection between the cascading of gluon momenta modeled with the diffusive approximation of the Balitsky-Fadin-Kuraev-Lipatov kernel and the thermodynamics of directed polymers on a tree with disorder. Using known results on the low-temperature spin-glass phase of this statistical-mechanic problem we describe the dynamical phase space of gluon transverse momenta near saturation including its fluctuation pattern. It exhibits a nontrivial clustering structure, analoguous to ``hot spots'', whose distributions are derived and possess universal features in common with other spin-glass systems.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0602095,
  title  = {Spin-glass model of QCD near saturation},
  author = {Robi Peschanski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0602095},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

12 pages, 4 figures; revised version with modified title, some clarifications, and corrections of misprints; Fig.4 updated, results unchanged