Skip to main navigation Skip to search Skip to main content

On the probability distribution of the stochastic saturation scale in QCD

  • Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, CNRS and CEA
  • Columbia University

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Abstract

It was recently noticed that high-energy scattering processes in QCD have a stochastic nature. An event-by-event scattering amplitude is characterised by a saturation scale which is a random variable. The statistical ensemble of saturation scales formed with all the events is distributed according to a probability law whose cumulants have been recently computed. In this work, we obtain the probability distribution from the cumulants. We prove that it can be considered as Gaussian over a large domain that we specify and our results are confirmed by numerical simulations.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)635-641
Number of pages7
JournalPhysics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Volume639
Issue number6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 24 Aug 2006
Externally publishedYes

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'On the probability distribution of the stochastic saturation scale in QCD'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this