Numerical analysis of the Balitsky-Kovchegov equation with running coupling: Dependence of the saturation scale on nuclear size and rapidity

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2005, Pages

  Albacete, J L ^a,b   Armesto, N ^b   Milhano, J G ^b,c   Salgado, C A ^b   Wiedemann, U A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

^b CERN   (Switzerland)

^c INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BALITSKY KOVCHEGOV EQUATION; DENSITY; DIPOLE; GLUON; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR ENERGY; QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS; QUANTUM MECHANICS; RUNNING COUPLING; SCALING WINDOW;

EID: 84927724378     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.71.014003     Document Type: Article

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