Abstract:
We derive the two-plateau momentum distribution of final state (FS) quarks produced in deep inelastic scattering (DIS) off nuclei in the saturation regime. The diffractive plateau which dominates for small $p$ measures precisely the momentum distribution of quarks in the beam photon, the rôle of the nucleus is simply to provide an opacity. The plateau for truly inelastic DIS exhibits a substantial nuclear broadening of the FS momentum distribution. We discuss the relationship between the FS quark densities and the properly defined initial state (IS) nuclear quark densities.The Weizsäcker-Williams glue of a nucleus exhibits a substantial nuclear dilution, still soft IS nuclear sea saturates because of the anti-collinear splitting of gluons into sea quarks.
Citation:
N. N. Nikolaev, W. Schäfer, B. G. Zakharov, V. R. Zoller, “Saturation of nuclear partons: the fermi statistics or nuclear opacity?”, Pis'ma v Zh. Èksper. Teoret. Fiz., 76:4 (2002), 231–235; JETP Letters, 76:4 (2002), 195–200
This publication is cited in the following 9 articles:
JETP Letters, 83:5 (2006), 192–197
N. N. Nikolaev, W. Schäfer, Phys. Rev. D, 74:7 (2006)
N. N. Nikolaev, W. Schäfer, Phys. Rev. D, 74:1 (2006)
JETP Letters, 82:6 (2005), 325–334
N. N. Nikolaev, W. Schäfer, B. G. Zakharov, Phys. Rev. D, 72:11 (2005)
N. N. Nikolaev, W. Schäfer, B. G. Zakharov, V. R. Zoller, Phys. Rev. D, 72:3 (2005)
N. N. Nikolaev, W. Schäfer, Phys. Rev. D, 71:1 (2005)
N. N. Nikolaev, W. Schäfer, B. G. Zakharov, V. R. Zoller, J. Exp. Theor. Phys., 97:3 (2003), 441
I. P. Ivanov, N. N. Nikolaev, W. Schäfer, B. G. Zakharov, V. R. Zoller, DIFFRACTION 2002: Interpretation of the New Diffractive Phenomena in Quantum Chromodynamics and in the S-Matrix Theory, 2003, 209