Proton structure fluctuations: constraints from HERA and applications to p+A collisions

Abstract

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.

Comments: 4 pages, 4 figures. Talk by H.M. at Quark Matter 2017