Correlations in impact-parameter space in a hierarchical saturation model for QCD at high energy

Abstract

In order to get an estimate of the homogeneity of the distribution of matter in a fast hadron or nucleus, we compute the correlations of the saturation scales Q_s between different points in impact-parameter space, in some specific saturation models. We find that these correlations are quite strong: The saturation scale is nearly uniform in domains whose sizes scale like exp[const*ln^2(1/α_s^2)]/Q_s, which means that the density of gluons should not fluctuate significantly over regions of that typical size. We expect these conclusions as well as the explicit analytical expressions we obtain for the correlations to be true also for full QCD in appropriate limits.

30 pages, 8 figures

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