2019/10/31 by Bharath Sambasivam, Tobias Toll, T. Toll +2 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Color-glass condensate #Dipole #Gluon #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Large Hadron Collider #Nuclear physics #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Physics #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Quantum chromodynamics #Quantum electrodynamics #Quantum mechanics #Saturation (graph theory) #Statistical physics #hep-ph #nucl-ex #nucl-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2020.135277
14 pages, 5 figures
openalex created_date 2019/10/10 · arxiv created 2020/01/09 · openalex publication_date 2020/02/05 · arxiv updated 2020/02/12 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We investigate saturation effects in ep scattering as well as in ultraperipheral pA and AA collisions at small x with four variants of the impact parameter dependent color dipole model: with and without gluon saturation and with and without a novel mechanism that suppresses unphysical dipole radii above the confinement scale, a problem not addressed by most implementations. We show that ep scattering at HERA can be very well described by any of the four variants. When going from ep to eA scattering, saturation effects are expected to increase as ∼A1/3. In lieu of an electron-ion collider, we confront the different versions of the dipole model with data recorded in ultraperipheral collisions at the LHC in order to estimate the sensitivity of the data to gluon saturation in the target nuclei. We find that ultraperipheral PbPb collisions indicate strong saturation effects while pPb collisions turn out to not have any discriminating power to distinguish saturation from non-saturation scenarios.