A model for gluon production in heavy-ion collisions at the LHC with rcBK unintegrated gluon densities

Abstract

This note is a physics manual for a recent numerical implementation of k_t-factorization with running-coupling BK unintegrated gluon distributions. We also compile some results for Pb+Pb collisions at \sqrt{s} = 2.75 TeV, such as predictions for the centrality dependence of the charged particle multiplicity and transverse energy. The model can further be used to obtain initial conditions for hydrodynamic simulations of A+A collisions at the LHC.

Comments: 9 pages and 5 figures. Two plots added and discussion extended