10–17 Jul 2019
Ghent
Europe/Brussels timezone

QCD evolution based evidence for the onset of gluon saturation in exclusive photo-production of vector mesons

15 Jul 2019, 18:30
1h 30m
ICC - Arteveldeforum (Ghent)

ICC - Arteveldeforum

Ghent

Poster QCD and Hadronic Physics Wine & Cheese Poster Session

Speaker

Martin Hentschinski (Universidad de las Americas, Puebla)

Description

We investigate photo-production of vector mesons J/Psi and Upsilon measured both at HERA and LHC, using 2 particular fits of inclusive unintegrated gluon distributions. The fits are based on non-linear Balitsky-Kovchegov evolution (Kutak-Sapeta gluon; KS) and next-to-leading order Balitsky-Fadin-Kuraev-Lipatov evolution (Hentschinski-Sabio Vera-Salas gluon; HSS). We find that linear next-to-leading order evolution can only describe production at highest energies, if perturbative corrections are increased to unnaturally large values; rendering this corrections to a perturbative size, the growth with energy is too strong and the description fails. At the same time, the KS gluon, which we explore both with and without non-linear corrections, requires the latter to achieve an accurate description of the energy dependence of data. We interpret this observation as a clear signal for the presence of high gluon densities in the proton, characteristic for the onset of gluon saturation.

Primary authors

Martin Hentschinski (Universidad de las Americas, Puebla) Krzysztof Kutak (Instytut Fizyki Jadrowej Polskiej Akademii Nauk) Mr Alfredo Arroyo Garcia (Universidad de las Americas)

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