Proton structure fluctuations: constraints from HERA and applications to p+A collisions
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⚛️ nucl-th
hep-ph
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protonfluctuationsstructurecollisionsheraanisotropiesapplicationscomparing
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We constrain proton structure fluctuations at small-$x$ by comparing with the HERA diffractive vector meson production data, and find that large geometric fluctuations in the proton wave function are needed. Hydrodynamical simulations of proton-nucleus collisions including the fluctuating proton structure are found to be compatible with the momentum anisotropies measured at the LHC.
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