# Thermal radiation and inclusive production in the CGC/saturation approach at high energies

## TL;DR

This paper analyzes inclusive hadron production at high energies within the CGC/saturation framework, highlighting the role of saturation momentum and thermal radiation contributions, and comparing different confinement models for data description.

## Contribution

It introduces a model incorporating thermal radiation in the CGC approach and compares it with alternative confinement models to explain experimental data.

## Key findings

- Thermal radiation improves data fit in the CGC model.
- Gluon jet production mainly occurs near the saturation momentum.
- Alternative confinement models can describe data without thermal emission.

## Abstract

In this paper, we discuss the inclusive production of hadrons in the framework of CGC/saturation approach. We argue, that the gluon jet inclusive production stems from the vicinity of the saturation momentum, even for small values of the transverse momenta $p_T$. Since in this region, theoretically, we know the scattering amplitude, we claim that we can provide reliable estimates for this process. We demonstrate, that in a widely accepted model for confinement, to describe the experimental data, we require a thermal radiation term. In this model the parton (quark or gluon) with the transverse momenta of the order of $Q_s$ decays into hadrons with the given fragmentation functions. However, we show that other approaches for the confinement could describe the data, without a need for the thermal emission