Speaker
Prof.
Boris Kopeliovich
(UTFSM)
Description
Broadening of gluons propagating through a nucleus is slowed down by the saturation effects in the target. This gives rise to an equation for the saturation scale
which solution deviates from the leading order linear dependence on nuclear thickness T_A and becomes constant for very large T_A. The results for the saturation scale are similar to numerical solutions of the BK equation.
In the case of colliding nuclei the saturation effects lead to a mutual boosting of the saturation scales in both nuclei up to values higher than in pA collisions.
We derive reciprocity equations which show a considerable boosting effect, up to factor three, for the saturation scales at the energies of LHC.
Primary author
Prof.
Boris Kopeliovich
(UTFSM)
Co-authors
Dr
Irina Potashnikova
(UTFSM)
Ivan Schmidt
(UFSM)
