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Single inclusive hadron production at RHIC and the LHC from the color glass condensate

  • Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, CNRS and CEA

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Abstract

Using the unintegrated gluon distribution obtained from numerical simulations of the Balitsky-Kovchegov equation with running coupling, we obtain a very good description of RHIC data on single inclusive hadron production at forward rapidities in both p + p and d + Au collisions. No K-factors are needed for charged hadrons, whereas for pion production a rapidity independent K-factor of order 1/3 is needed. Extrapolating to LHC energies, we calculate nuclear modification factors for light hadrons in p + Pb collision, as well as the contribution of initial state effects to the suppression of the nuclear modification factor in Pb + Pb collisions.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)174-179
Number of pages6
JournalPhysics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Volume687
Issue number2-3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 12 Apr 2010
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • CGC effects
  • Heavy Ion program LHC
  • RHIC data
  • Single inclusive hadron production

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