| Grant number: | 13/23848-5 |
| Support type: | Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Doctorate |
| Effective date (Start): | April 01, 2014 |
| Effective date (End): | March 31, 2015 |
| Field of knowledge: | Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Physics |
| Principal Investigator: | Francisco de Oliveira Durães |
| Grantee: | André Veiga Giannini |
| Supervisor abroad: | Adrian Dumitru |
| Home Institution: | Instituto de Física (IF). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil |
| Local de pesquisa : | City University of New York, New York (CUNY), United States |
| Associated to the scholarship: | 12/17200-0 - The effects of parton saturation on hadronic and Photoproduction processes, BP.DR |
Abstract We plan to study the mechanism of particle production in proton-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus collisions at the LHC energies using the Color Glass Condensate formalism. This will be done by calculating the transverse momentum and the rapidity distribution of the produced particles in those collisions considering the numerical solution of the running coupling Balitsky-Kovchegov (rcBK) equation and including the impact parameter dependence through the dipole models which are related to the gluon density inside a proton or a nucleus. We also intend to study the size of the running coupling corrections and how they change the naive $k_{T}$-factorization formula for the gluon production cross section in hadronic and nuclear high energy scattering, which has been used to study RHIC data. The inclusion of these corrections will certainly be an improvement in CGC-based computations. (AU) | |