2001/08/31 by Jürgen Schaffner–Bielich, Jurgen Schaffner-Bielich, Dmitri E. Kharzeev +3 · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Color-glass condensate #Geometry #Gluon #Hadron #Heavy ion #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Ion #Large Hadron Collider #Mass spectrum #Multiplicity (mathematics) #Nuclear physics #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Physics #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Quantum mechanics #Quark #Rapidity #Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider #Saturation (graph theory) #Scaling #Spectral line #Transverse mass #Transverse plane #hep-ph #nucl-ex #nucl-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/s0375-9474(02)00677-2
published as Nucl.Phys.A705:494-507,2002 · 15 pages, 6 figures, refs. updated, version to appear in Nucl. Phys. A
arxiv created 2002/02/15 · openalex publication_date 2002/07/01 · arxiv updated 2010/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We argue that the transverse mass spectra of identified hadrons as measured in gold-gold collisions at BNL's Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC) follows a generalized scaling law. Such a scaling behavior is motivated by the idea of a Color Glass Condensate, or more generally, saturation of the gluon density. In particular, we describe the shapes of transverse mass spectra as a function of centrality. This scaling of the transverse mass spectrum is shown to be consistent with previously observed scaling of multiplicity with centrality.