Geometric scaling violations in the central rapidity region of collisions at RHIC

✍ Scribed by Adrian Dumitru; Arata Hayashigaki; Jamal Jalilian-Marian

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 443 KB
• Volume: 770
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0375-9474
• DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2006.02.009

✦ Synopsis

We show that geometric scaling is satisfied to good accuracy in the forward region of d + Au collisions at RHIC. Scaling violations do show up, however, at mid-rapidity, and the anomalous dimension of the small-x gluon distribution evolves to near its DGLAP limit for transverse momenta of a few GeV. This represents a first consistency check of RHIC deuteron-nucleus and HERA DIS phenomenology, and of the universality of the underlying color glass condensate (CGC) theory, which describes both phenomena. It also reconciles successful leading-twist LO and NLO perturbative QCD computations of mid-rapidity particle production with small-x evolution. Finally, we introduce a new parameterization for the anomalous dimension of the small-x gluon distribution which properly reproduces known theoretical limits at large rapidity, at large virtuality, and on the saturation boundary, and still fits the available data from d + Au collisions at RHIC. We find indications that sub-asymptotic terms in the rapidity-evolution of the anomalous dimension are large.