Speaker
Haowu Duan
(North Carolina State University)
Description
We provide the first calculation of two-gluon production at mid-rapidity in ultra-peripheral collisions in the Color Glass Condensate framework. To estimate systematic uncertainty associated with poor understanding of the wave function of the nearly real photon, we consider two diametrically different models: the dilute quark-antiquark dipole approximation and a
vector meson, in which color charge density is approximated by McLerran-Venugopalan model. In the experimentally relevant range, the target nucleus can be faithfully approximated by highly saturated state. This simplification enables us to perform efficient numerical simulations and extract the two-gluon correlation functions.
Primary author
Haowu Duan
(North Carolina State University)
Co-authors
Dr
Vladimir Skokov
(North Carolina State University)
Dr
Alex Kovner
(University of Connecticut at Storrs)
