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A Novel Approach For Event-By-Event Early Gluon Fields

Nuclear Theory 2017-06-06 v1

Abstract

We report on efforts to construct an event generator that calculates the classical gluon field generated at early times in high energy nuclear collisions. Existing approaches utilize numerical solutions of the Yang-Mills equations after the collision. In contrast we employ the analytically known recursion relation in the forward light cone. The few lowest orders are expected to lead to reliable results for times of up to the inverse saturation scale, tau_0 ~ 1/Q_s. In these proceedings we sketch some calculational details, and show some preliminary results.

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@article{arxiv.1706.00832,
  title  = {A Novel Approach For Event-By-Event Early Gluon Fields},
  author = {Rainer J. Fries and Steven Rose},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1706.00832},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

Contribution to Hard Probes 2016, accepted for publication in Nuclear and Particle Physics Proceedings; 4 pages, 6 figures

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