Color-glass condensate

About: Color-glass condensate is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 885 publications have been published within this topic receiving 35169 citations.

Extra dimensions, black holes and fireballs at the LHC

Abstract: The collision of two gravitationally interacting, ultra-relativistic, extended sources is being examined. This investigation classifies the transverse distributions that are collided for fixed collision energy, according to whether one or two (a small and a large) apparent horizons may or may not be formed in a flat background in 4 dimensions. The study extends to the thermodynamical properties of the objects that are created, which exhibit a universal behavior in their entropy, and, suggests the elimination of the possibility in observing black holes (BHs) at the LHC in the absence of extra dimensions. On the other hand, including extra dimensions, and assuming that the matter is localized (dense) enough in those directions, opens new avenues in creating BHs at energies of the order of TeV. The investigation is carried further to AdS 5 backgrounds and makes connections with the implications for the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) formation in heavy ion collisions. In particular, classes of the geometries found suggest that a BH is formed if and only if the (central collision) energy is sufficiently large compared to the transverse scale of the corresponding gauge theory side stress-tensor. This implies that when the scattering in the gravity description is mapped onto a heavy ion collision problem yields a result, which is in accordance with the current intuition and data: QGP is formed only at high enough energies compared to ΛQCD, even for central processes. Incorporating weak coupling physics and in particular the Color Glass Condensate (CGC) model, a satisfactory fitting with the RHIC and the LHC data for multiplicities may be established.

Multipole scattering amplitudes in the Color Glass Condensate formalism

Abstract: We evaluate the octupole in the large-${N}_{c}$ limit in the McLerran-Venugopalan model and derive a general expression of the 2n-point correlator, which can be applied in analytical studies of the multiparticle production in the scatterings between hard probes and dense targets.

Improvement for color glass condensate factorization: Single hadron production in p A collisions at next-to-leading order

Abstract: High-order calculation at the semihard scale in high-energy collisions is very important, but a satisfactory calculation framework is still missing. We propose a systematic method to regularize the rapidity divergence in color glass condensate (CGC) factorization, which makes higher-order calculation rigorous and straightforward. By applying this method to the single hadron production in the $pA$ collision, we find the kinematic constraint effect introduced by hand in previous works comes out automatically, but with different values. The difference is crucial for our next-to-leading-order result to have a smaller theoretical uncertainty compared with leading-order result, which makes the high-order calculation in CGC factorization be useful. As a byproduct, the negativity problem found in the literature can also be overcome in our framework by properly choosing the factorization scale.

CGC initial conditions at RHIC and LHC

Abstract: Monte-Carlo implementations of kT-factorization formula with both KLN and running-coupling BK unintegrated gluon distributions for nucleus-nucleus collisions are used to analyze recent experimental data on the particle multiplicities from RHIC(Au+Au@200GeV) and LHC(Pb+Pb@2.76TeV). We also compare the predicted transverse energy at midrapidity to new data from ALICE.