Universality of multiparticle production in QCD at high energies

Oct, 2012
16 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 87 (2013) 034007
  • Published: Feb 4, 2013
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Report number:
  • CERN-PH-TH-2012-269

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Abstract: (APS)
By studying the color structure of multiparticle production processes in p+A-type (dilute-dense) collisions, we find that higher-point functions beyond typical dipoles and quadrupoles, e.g., sextupoles, octupoles, etc., naturally appear in the cross sections, but are explicitly suppressed in the large-Nc limit. We evaluate the sextupole in the McLerran-Venugopalan model and find that, in general, its analytical form cannot be written as combination of dipoles and quadrupoles. Within the color glass condensate framework, we present a proof that in the large-Nc limit, all multiparticle production processes in the collision of a dilute system off a dense system can, up to all orders in αs, be described in terms of only dipoles and quadrupoles.
Note:
  • 24 pages, 16 figures, Published in Phys.Rev.D
  • 24.85.+p
  • 12.38.Cy
  • 13.85.Hd
  • expansion 1/N: color
  • dipole
  • quantum chromodynamics
  • color glass condensate
  • multiple production
  • p nucleus: interaction
  • n-point function