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Gluons may converge to a stable state at a critical momentum in nucleon. This gluon condensation will greatly increase the proton-proton cross section provided that the collision energies exceed the gluon condensation threshold. Based on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-01 Wei Zhu , Zhiyi Cui , Jianhong Ruan

We report that the saturation/CGC model of gluon distribution is unstable under action of the chaotic solution in a nonlinear QCD evolution equation, and it evolves to the distribution with a sharp peak at the critical momentum. We find…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-03-08 Wei Zhu , Jiangshan Lan

Decoding the internal structure of the proton is a fundamental challenge in physics. Historically, any new discovery about the proton has fuelled advances in several scientific fields. We have reported that gluons inside the proton…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-08 Wei Zhu , Jianhong Ruan , Xurong Chen , Yuchen Tang

The accumulation of gluons inside nucleons, i.e., the gluon condensation, may lead to a characteristic broken power-law gamma-ray spectrum in high-energy nucleon collisions. Here we show that the observed spectra of at least 25 sources in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-30 Ze-Cheng Zou , Yong-Feng Huang , Cheng-Ming Li , He-Rui Zheng , Wei Zhu

We present predictions for centrality-dependent charged-hadron production in p-O collisions at top LHC energies based on a nonequilibrium-statistical relativistic diffusion model. Colour-glass condensate initial conditions are used in a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-17 Luca Konrad , Philipp Schulz , Georg Wolschin

Hardening of cosmic proton- and nuclei-spectra is explained by using the gluon condensation (GC) model, which states that a large amount of gluons in proton may condense near the high energy threshold. The results present the GC-effect as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-08 W. Zhu , P. Liu , J. H. Ruan , R. Q. Wang , F. Wang

The recent results in \sqrt{s}=2.76 TeV Pb+Pb collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) reported by the ALICE collaboration shows that the power-law energy-dependence of charged hadron multiplicity in Pb+Pb collisions is significantly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-06-09 Eugene Levin , Amir H. Rezaeian

We study gluon production in high energy proton-nucleus collisions in the semi-classical framework of the Color Glass Condensate. We develop a general formalism to compute gluon fields in covariant gauge to lowest order in the classical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-06 J. P. Blaizot , F. Gelis , R. Venugopalan

The gluon condensation (GC)-effects in high energy cosmic rays are investigated. After a brief review of the GC, several examples including gamma-, electron-, and positron-spectra in a broad GeV$\sim $TeV region can be explained by the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-09-12 Wei Zhu , Jiangshan Lan , Jianhong Ruan

The forthcoming LHC measurements in proton-nucleus (pA) collisions at forward rapidities can discriminate between the color glass condensate (CGC) and alternative approaches including standard collinear factorization one. We report some of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-10-17 Amir H. Rezaeian

We use a newly recognized gluon distribution in the nucleon, which was predicted by a QCD evolution equation to consistently explain several intriguing phenomena associated with gamma-ray bursts. They are the GeV-TeV spectra of GRB 221009A,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-14 Wei Zhu , Xu-Rong Chen , Yu-Chen Tang

In these lectures, we develop the theory of the Colour Glass Condensate. This is the matter made of gluons in the high density environment characteristic of deep inelastic scattering or hadron-hadron collisions at very high energy. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Edmond Iancu , Andrei Leonidov , Larry McLerran

We provide quantitative predictions for the rapidity, centrality and energy dependencies of inclusive charged-hadron productions for the forthcoming LHC measurements in nucleus-nucleus collisions based on the idea of gluon saturation in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-09-02 Eugene Levin , Amir H. Rezaeian

We derive an analytical expression for the two-gluon production in the pA (light-heavy) collisions, and focus specifically on the rapidity dependent part. We approximate the gauge field from the heavy target as the Color Glass Condensate…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Kenji Fukushima , Yoshimasa Hidaka

We present various predictions for the upcoming p+Pb collisions at \sqrt{S}=5 TeV within the color glass condensate (CGC) formalism, including single inclusive charged hadron production, single inclusive prompt photon production, direct…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-12-14 Amir H. Rezaeian

We review the predictions of the theory of Color Glass Condensate for gluon production cross section in p(d)A collisions. We demonstrate that at moderate energies, when the gluon production cross section can be calculated in the framework…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-30 Dmitri Kharzeev , Yuri V. Kovchegov , Kirill Tuchin

We single out the role of fully coherent induced gluon radiation on light hadron production in pA collisions. The effect has an interesting color structure, as the induced radiation depends on the global color charge of the partonic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-22 François Arleo , Stéphane Peigné

Quark-gluon dynamics within protons and high-energy radiation phenomena in the universe are typically regarded as two entirely distinct fields. This paper aims to demonstrate that gluon condensation (GC) may serve as a direct bridge between…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-27 Wei Zhu , Yu-Chen Tang , Ye-Yin Zhao , Bo Yang , Yu-Chen Xiong

The physics of the initial conditions of heavy ion collisions is dominated by the nonlinear gluonic interactions of QCD. These lead to the concepts of parton saturation and the Color Glass Condensate (CGC). We discuss recent progress in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-05-27 T. Lappi

Perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics (pQCD) predicts that the small-$x$ gluons in a hadron wavefunction should form a Color Glass Condensate (CGC), characterized by a saturation scale $Q_s (x, A)$ which is energy and atomic number dependent.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-01-07 M. S. Kugeratski , V. P. Goncalves , F. S. Navarra
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