Diffractive hadron production in deep inelastic scattering off heavy nuclei and gluon saturation

2011/01/31 by Kirill Tuchin, Dajing Wu
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Deep inelastic scattering #Gluon #Hadron #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Inelastic scattering #Mathematics #Nuclear physics #Optics #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Physics #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Quark #Saturation (graph theory) #Scattering #hep-ph #nucl-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.83.054027

published as Phys.Rev.D83:054027,2011 · 13 pages; v2: discussion extended, new references added

arxiv created 2011/03/03 · openalex publication_date 2011/03/28 · arxiv updated 2015/03/17 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

We calculate the cross section for diffractive hadron production in deep inelastic scattering off heavy nuclei in the framework of gluon saturation/color glass condensate. We analyze the kinematic region of the future Electron-Ion Collider. We argue that coherent and incoherent diffractive channels are very sensitive to the structure of the nuclear matter at low x. This expresses itself in a characteristic dependence of the cross sections on rapidity and transverse momentum of the produced hadron and on the nuclear weight. We also discuss dependence on the scattering angle and argue that both coherent and incoherent cross sections may be within experimental reach at Electron-Ion Collider.

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