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Gluon production from non-Abelian Weizsäcker-Williams fields in nucleus-nucleus collisions

Year: 1995

Type: article

Abstract: We consider the collisions of large nuclei using the theory of McLerran and Venugopalan. The two nuclei are ultrarelativistic and sources of non-Abelian Weizs\ifmmode\ddot\else\textasciidieresis\fi{}acker-Williams fields. These sources are in the end averaged over all color orientations locally with a Gaussian weight. We show that there is a solution of the equations of motion for the two nucleus scattering problem where the fields are time and rapidity independent before the collision. After the collision the solution depends on proper time, but is independent of rapidity. We show how to extract the produced gluons from the classical evolution of the fields.

Source: Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields

DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.52.6231

Authors: Alex Kovner, Larry McLerran, Heribert Weigert

Institution: University of Minnesota

Language: English

Topic: High-Energy Particle Collisions Research

Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics

Field: Physics and Astronomy

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funders: U.S. Department of Energy, Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung

Awards: RESEARCH IN THEORETICAL NUCLEAR PHYSICS, THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS, EXPERIMENTAL AND THEORETICAL HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS