16 August 2010 to 10 September 2010
CERN
Europe/Zurich timezone

Gluon saturation and inclusive hadron production at LHC

30 Aug 2010, 10:40
40m
TH Theory Conference Room (CERN)

TH Theory Conference Room

CERN

Speaker

Dr Amir Rezaeian (Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria)

Description

In high density QCD the hadron production stems from decay of mini-jets that have the transverse momenta of the order of the saturation scale. I will show that this idea is able to describe in a unique fashion the first data from the LHC for the inclusive charged-hadron production in pp collisions, the deep inelastic scattering at HERA at small Bjorken-x, and the hadron multiplicities in AA collisions at RHIC. Recently reported data from ALICE, CMS and ATLAS including inclusive charged-hadron transverse-momentum and multiplicity distribution in pp collisions are well described in our approach. I provide quantitative predictions for the rapidity, centrality and energy dependencies of inclusive charged-hadron productions for the LHC in AA collisions based on the idea of gluon saturation in the color-glass condensate framework. I also provide predictions for the nuclear modification factor for pions and direct-photon production in pA collisions at LHC energy.

Author

Dr Amir Rezaeian (Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria)

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