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18–21 Nov 2019
Hotel Guanajuato, Ciudad de Guanajuato, Mexico
America/Mexico_City timezone

The use of QCD evolution to detect gluon saturation in exclusive photo-production of vector mesons

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20m
Hotel Guanajuato, Ciudad de Guanajuato, Mexico

Hotel Guanajuato, Ciudad de Guanajuato, Mexico

Dolares, Guanajuato, A Dolores Hidalgo km 2.5, San Javier, 36020 Guanajuato, Gto., Mexico

Speaker

Dr 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 author

Dr Martin Hentschinski (Universidad de las Americas Puebla)

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