Saturation Physics on the Energy Frontier
Abstract
Saturation physics is expected to be relevant at sufficiently small parton momentum fractions in high-energy proton- (or deuteron-)ion collisions at RHIC and the LHC. Accordingly, these collisions provide the best available testing ground for the saturation model. However, producing precise numerical predictions from the model is a complicated task; the state of the art in this area involves next-to-leading order QCD calculations, which are difficult to do numerically. Here I'll review recent progress in extracting numerical predictions from saturation models and matching them to experimental results.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1511.00386,
title = {Saturation Physics on the Energy Frontier},
author = {David Zaslavsky},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.00386},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
Presentation at the DPF 2015 Meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Particles and Fields, Ann Arbor, Michigan, August 4-8, 2015