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Probing subnucleon scale fluctuations in ultraperipheral heavy ion collisions
We show that introducing subnucleon scale fluctuations constrained by HERA
diffractive production data significantly affects the incoherent
diffractive production cross section in ultraperipheral heavy ion
collisions. We find that the inclusion of the additional fluctuations increases
the ratio of the incoherent to the coherent cross section approximately by a
factor of , and modifies the transverse momentum spectra of the produced
at momenta larger than the scale that corresponds to the distance
scale of the subnucleonic fluctuations. We present predictions for
production in ultraperipheral heavy ion collisions at at the LHC and at RHIC.Comment: 9 pages, 8 figures. v2: small clarifications to the text, matches the
published versio
Dijet asymmetry at the Large Hadron Collider
The MARTINI numerical simulation allows for direct comparison of theoretical
model calculations and the latest results for dijet asymmetry from the ATLAS
and CMS collaborations. In this paper, partons are simulated as undergoing
radiative and collisional processes throughout the evolution of central
lead-lead collisions at the Large Hadron Collider. Using hydrodynamical
background evolution determined by a simulation which fits well with the data
on charged particle multiplicities from ALICE and a value of , the dijet asymmetry is found to be consistent with partonic energy
loss in a hot, strongly-interacting medium.Comment: 8 pages, 3 figures. For version 2: ATLAS' latest analysis is
included, with some comments and minor changes of wordin
Azimuthal anisotropies in p+Pb collisions from classical Yang-Mills dynamics
We compute single and double inclusive gluon distributions in classical
Yang-Mills simulations of proton-lead collisions and extract the associated
transverse momentum dependent Fourier harmonics and .
Gluons have a large in the initial state, while odd harmonics such as
vanish identically at the initial time . By the time final state effects in the classical Yang-Mills
evolution generate a non-zero and only mildly modify the gluon .
Unlike hydrodynamic flow, these momentum space anisotropies are uncorrelated
with the global spatial anisotropy of the collision. A principal ingredient for
the generation of and in this framework is the event-by-event
breaking of rotational invariance in domains the size of the inverse of the
saturation scale . In contrast to our findings in p+Pb collisions
Yang-Mills simulations of lead-lead collisions generate much smaller values of
and additional collective flow effects are needed to explain
experimental data. This is because the locally generated anisotropy due to the
breaking of rotational invariance is depleted with the increase in the number
of uncorrelated domains.Comment: Minor modifications; Version to appear in Phys. Lett.
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