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The gluon condensation in hadron collisions

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2022-09-28 v1

Abstract

Gluons may converge to a stable state at a critical momentum in hadrons. This gluon condensation is predicted by a nonlinear QCD evolution equation. We review the understanding of the gluon condensation and present a clear physical picture that produces the gluon condensation from the colour glass condensate. We summarize the applications of the GC effect in the pp(A)p-p(A) collisions and predict that the pPbp-Pb and PbPbPb-Pb collisions at the LHC are close to the energy region of the gluon condensation. We warn that for the next generation of hadron colliders with the increasing of the collision energy, the extremely strong gamma-rays will be emitted in a narrow space of the accelerator due to the gluon condensation effect. Such artificial mini gamma-ray bursts in the laboratory may damage the detectors.

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@article{arxiv.2208.14219,
  title  = {The gluon condensation in hadron collisions},
  author = {Wei Zhu and Qihui Chen and Zhiyi Cui and Jianhong Ruan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.14219},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

30 pages, 11 figures, 2 tables, Accepted for publication in NPB. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2109.09826