Jet production in pA and AA collisions in the perturbative QCD pomeron model

Abstract

Inclusive cross-sections for gluon jet production are studied numerically in the perturbative QCD pomeron model for pA and central AA collisions at high energies. Two forms for the inclusive cross-sections, with and without emission from the triple pomeron vertex, are compared. The difference was found to reduce to a numerical factor 0.7-0.8 for momenta below the saturation momentum Q_s. Above Q_s no difference was found at all. For pA collisions the jet spectrum was found to be \sim A^{0.7} at momenta below Q_s and \sim A^{0.9} above it. For central AA collisions it was found to be \sim A below Q_s and \sim A^{1.1} above it. At large momenta k the spectrum goes like 1/k^{2.7 - 3.3} flattenung with energy.

19 pages, 16 figures