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Testing universality of the Color Glass Condensate descriptions

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-01-07 v1

Abstract

Perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics (pQCD) predicts that the small-xx gluons in a hadron wavefunction should form a Color Glass Condensate (CGC), which has universal properties, which are the same for all hadrons or nuclei. Assuming this property, in this paper we cross relate the current CGC descriptions of the epep HERA data and dAudAu RHIC data. In particular, we use the quark dipole scattering amplitude recently proposed by Kharzeev, Kovchegov and Tuchin (KKT) to explain the high pTp_T particle suppression observed in dAudAu collisions at RHIC in our calculations of the proton and longitudinal structure functions. We present a detailed comparison between this parameterization and those proposed to describe the epep HERA data. We find out that, due to its peculiar dependence on the energy and dipole separation, the KKT parameterization is able to describe the experimental epep data only in a limited kinematical range of photon virtualities.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0508275,
  title  = {Testing universality of the Color Glass Condensate descriptions},
  author = {M. S. Kugeratski and V. P. Goncalves and F. S. Navarra},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0508275},
  year   = {2009}
}

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11 pages, 6 figures, to appear in Eur. Phys. J. C