Han-Zhong Zhang

Unbiased Data-Driven Determination of the Nuclear Dipole Amplitude in the Color Glass Condensate

Gluon saturation limits the growth of parton densities at small Bjorken-$x$ and is expected to be most pronounced in heavy nuclei. Yet quantitative extractions of the nuclear gluon dipole amplitude have long relied on parametrized initial conditions, introducing uncontrolled model dependence that obscures genuine nucle...