Parton saturation, production, and equilibration in high-energy nuclear collisions

1999

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Abstract:
Deeply inelastic scattering of electrons off nuclei can determine whether parton distributions saturate at HERA energies. If so, this phenomenon will also tell us a great deal about how particles are produced, and whether they equilibrate, in high energy nuclear collisions.
Note:
  • LaTex 6 pgs., invited talk at XXXIVth Rencontres de Moriond, march 1999
  • talk: Les Arcs 1999/03/20
  • electron nucleus: deep inelastic scattering
  • scattering: heavy ion
  • momentum spectrum: parton
  • quantum chromodynamics
  • effective action
  • small-x
  • nucleon: structure function
  • production: parton
  • interpretation of experiments: DESY HERA Stor