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Proton-nucleus collisions in the color glass condensate framework

J. -P. Blaizot, F. Gelis, R. Venugopalan

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/0410032

Abstract

We discuss proton-nucleus collisions in the framework of the color glass condensate. By assuming that the proton can be described as a low density color source, we solve exactly the Yang-Mills equations corresponding to this type of collision, and then use this solution in order to calculate inclusive gluon production or quark-antiquark production. Our result shows that kT-factorization, while valid for gluon production, is violated for quark pair production in proton-nucleus collisions.

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