2010

Single Inclusive Hadron Production at RHIC and the LHC from the Color Glass Condensate

Albacete, Javier L., Marquet, Cyrille

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Using the unintegrated gluon distribution obtained from numerical simulations of the Balitsky-Kovchegov equation with running coupling, we obtain a very good description of RHIC data on single inclusive hadron production at forward rapidities in both p+p and d+Au collisions.

No K-factors are needed for charged hadrons, whereas for pion production a rapidity independent K-factor of order 1/3 is needed.
Extrapolating to LHC energies, we calculate nuclear modification factors for light hadrons in p+Pb collision, as well as the contribution of initial state effects to the suppression of the nuclear modification factor in Pb+Pb collisions.

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