Speaker
Prof.
Guilherme Milhano
(CENTRA-IST (Lisbon) & CERN-PH-TH)
Description
Recent developments in the computation of the NLO improvement for non-linear QCD evolution equations has allowed, for the first time, for the consistent description of experimental data using a first principle approach including non-linearities. In particular, the Balitsky-Kovchegov equation including running coupling effects (rcBK) has been shown to provide an excellent global description of inclusive DIS data.
I will present the results of global fits to proton data (with and without heavy quarks), and discuss the ongoing effort to extend to the nuclear case, performed in a numerical implementation of rcBK. The resulting parametrizations allow for the reliable computation of physical observables in a kinematical region (relevant for both p-p and A-A programmes at the LHC) where the standard DGLAP based techniques are expected to fail.
Author
Prof.
Guilherme Milhano
(CENTRA-IST (Lisbon) & CERN-PH-TH)