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Assessing saturation physics explanations of collectivity in small collision systems with the ip-jazma model

Nagle, J. L. ; Zajc, W. A.

Phys.Rev.C, 2019-05, Vol.99 (5), Article 054908 [Periódico revisado por pares]

United States: American Physical Society

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  • Título:
    Assessing saturation physics explanations of collectivity in small collision systems with the ip-jazma model
  • Autor: Nagle, J. L. ; Zajc, W. A.
  • Assuntos: Nuclear Theory ; Physics
  • É parte de: Phys.Rev.C, 2019-05, Vol.99 (5), Article 054908
  • Notas: FG02-00ER41152; FG02-86ER40281
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  • Descrição: Experimental measurements in relativistic collisions of small systems from p+p to p/d/He3+A at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) reveal particle emission patterns that are strikingly similar to those observed in A+A collisions of large nuclei. One explanation of these patterns is the formation of small droplets of quark-gluon plasma (QGP) followed by hydrodynamic evolution. A geometry engineering program was proposed to further investigate these emission patterns, and the experimental data from that program in p+Au, d+Au, He3+Au collisions for elliptic and triangular anisotropy coefficients v2 and v3 follow the pattern predicted by hydrodynamic calculations [C. Aidala (PHENIX Collaboration), Nat. Phys. 15, 214 (2019)10.1038/s41567-018-0360-0]. One alternative approach, referred to as initial-state correlations, suggests that for small systems the patterns observed in the final-state hadrons are encoded at the earliest moments of the collision and therefore require no final-state parton scattering or hydrodynamic evolution. Recently, new calculations using only initial-state correlations, in the dilute-dense approximation of gluon saturation physics, reported striking agreement with the v2 patterns observed in p/d/He3+Au data at RHIC [M. Mace, V. V. Skokov, P. Tribedy, and R. Venugopalan, Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 052301 (2018)10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.052301]. The results reported by Mace, Skokov, Tribedy and Venugopalan (MSTV) are counterintuitive and thus we aim here to reproduce some of the basic features of these calculations. In this first investigation, we provide a description of our publicly available model, ip-jazma, and investigate its implications for saturation scales, multiplicity distributions, and eccentricities, reserving for later work the analysis of momentum spectra and azimuthal anisotropies. We find that our implementation of the saturation physics model reproduces the results of the MSTV calculation of the multiplicity distribution in d+Au collisions at RHIC. However, additional aspects of studies, together with existing data, call into question some of the essential elements reported by MSTV. Resolution of these issues will require further developments of ip-jazma, in order to determine if it can replicate the qualitative agreement with the v2 reported by MSTV. Both the work reported here and future studies will establish which features in the experimental data are uniquely attributable to the color glass condensate description.
  • Editor: United States: American Physical Society
  • Idioma: Inglês
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