Physics Letters B 746 (2015) 154–158
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CGC/saturation approach for soft interactions at high energy: Inclusive
production
E. Gotsman
a,∗
, E. Levin
a,b
, U. Maor
a
a
Department of Particle Physics, School of Physics and Astronomy, Raymond and Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Science, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, 69978,
Israel
b
Departemento de Física, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, and Centro Científico-Tecnológico de Valparaíso, Avda. Espana 1680, Casilla 110-V,
Valparaíso, Chile
a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t
Article history:
Received
24 March 2015
Received
in revised form 20 April 2015
Accepted
30 April 2015
Available
online 5 May 2015
Editor:
A. Ringwald
Keywords:
Soft
Pmeron
CGC/saturation
approach
BFKL
Pomeron
Inclusive
production at high energies
In this letter we demonstrate that our dipole model is successful in describing inclusive production within
the same framework as diffractive physics. We believe that this achievement stems from the fact that our
approach incorporates the positive features of the Reggeon approach and CGC/saturation effective theory,
for high energy QCD.
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1. Introduction
The LHC data on inclusive production [1–3] call for a theoretical
understanding of these processes within the framework of QCD.
At first sight it would appear, that this process is a typical soft
process, which occurs at long distances, where one should use the
methods of non-perturbative QCD. Since such methods are only
in an embryonic stage, soft processes at high energy remain in
the arena of high energy phenomenology, based on the concept
of a soft Pomeron. Adopting this approach, inclusive production
can be calculated using the technique of Mueller diagrams [4]. It
has been demonstrated that soft Pomeron based models provide
a reasonable description of the data [5,6]. The advantage of our
approach is the feasibility of describing inclusive production on the
same footing as diffractive production, and elastic scattering.
On
the other hand, in the CGC/saturation approach for inclusive
production [7–13], one has a different scenario. In this approach
the inclusive production occurs in two stages. The first stage is
the production of a mini-jet with the typical transverse momen-
tum
Q
s
, where Q
s
is the saturation scale, which is much larger
than the soft scale. This process is under full theoretical control.
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E-mail
addresses: gotsman@post.tau.ac.il (E. Gotsman), leving@post.tau.ac.il,
eugeny.levin@usm.cl (E. Levin), maor@post.tau.ac.il (U. Maor).
The second stage is the decay of the mini-jet into hadrons, which
has to be treated phenomenologically, using data from the hard
processes. Such an approach leads to a good description of the ex-
perimental
data on inclusive production, both for hadron–hadron,
hadron–nucleus and nucleus–nucleus collisions, and observation of
regularities in the data, such as geometric scaling [14–18]. The
shortcoming of this approach is the fact that it is detached from
diffractive physics.
It
should be mentioned, that the recently published measure-
ments
of the pseudorapidity distributions of charged particles in
proton–proton collisions at an energy of 8TeVprovide an addi-
tional
challenge for model builders, which has not yet been suc-
cessfully
answered [2].
In
this letter, we continue (see Refs. [19,20]) to construct a
model for high energy soft interactions, which incorporates the ad-
vantages
of both approaches. This model is based on the Colour
Glass Condensate (CGC)/saturation effective theory (see Ref. [21]
for
the review), and on the perturbative BFKL Pomeron [22]. We
assume that the unknown mechanism for the confinement of
quarks and gluons in QCD, is not important, and its influence
can be reduced to the determination of several parameters related
to the CGC/saturation approach, which depend on long distance
physics.
The
main attributes of the model have been discussed in Refs.
[19,20], in this paper we will only include information that we
require for the discussion of inclusive production.
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