Rapidity and energy dependence of average transverse momentum and particle density in saturation models Original Research Article

Saturation models — colour glass condensate and string percolation — impose a strict relation between the average transverse momentum, 〈PT〉, and the rapidity particle densities, dn/dy. By combining this relation with an appropriate evolution equation for dn/dy, and imposing energy–momentum conservation, we obtain a fair description of data, for generic AB collisions (hadron–hadron, hadron–nucleus and nucleus–nucleus) at all rapidities and (high) energies. Predictions are given for the LHC.