Published January 2015 | Version v1
Journal article

Initial state angular asymmetries in high energy p+A collisions: Spontaneous breaking of rotational symmetry by a color electric field and C-odd fluctuations

  • 1. The Graduate School and University Center, The City University of New York, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016 (United States)
  • 2. Department of Natural Sciences, Baruch College, CUNY, 17 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10010 (United States)
  • 3. Instituto de Física, Universidade de São Paulo, C.P. 66318, 05315-970 São Paulo, SP (Brazil)

Description

We present a simple model for generating initial-state azimuthal asymmetries in pA collisions from dipole scattering on an anisotropic dense target. Parity even angular harmonics arise from the C-even real part of the dipole S-matrix which spontaneously breaks rotational symmetry in two dimensions due to a condensate for the color electric field. This leads to an angular correlation with the direction of E. Parity odd harmonics are generated by the C-odd imaginary part (odderon) due to coupling to coherent target fluctuations which again break rotational invariance. We perform a first qualitative extraction of the amplitude and cutoff of C-odd fluctuations in the dense target

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2014.10.037

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2014.10.037;
arXiv
arXiv:1406.5781v2;
PII
S0375-9474(14)00532-6;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nuclear Physics. A
Journal Volume
933
Journal Page Range
p. 212-228
ISSN
0375-9474
CODEN
NUPABL

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