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Title: Tunneling through color glass condensate and true black disks

Journal Article · · Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
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  1. Olovianka 18, kv. 22, Velikiy Novgorod 173004 (Russian Federation)

We discover new vacuum solutions of the Jalilian-Marian-Iancu-McLerran-Weigert-Leonidov-Kovner equation, which correspond to the center of a gauge group. We improve the color glass condensate (CGC) model by an explicit usage of a density matrix. Studying scattering of CGC states in an external color field, we observe that an amplitude is naturally expressed via group characters. We construct an example that shows how new thin effects may be potentially observed in peripheral collisions. We prove that at any parton density a gluonic CGC state does not become a true black disk. We find a wave function of a true black disk and show that it necessarily contains many quarks. This result corresponds to the necessity of nonvacuum Reggeon loops in a formation of a true black disk.

OSTI ID:
21296454
Journal Information:
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Vol. 79, Issue 11; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.79.114019; (c) 2009 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0556-2821
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English