Classical initial conditions in high energy nucleus-nucleus collisions
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-11-13 v1
Abstract
An iterative proceedure is proposed to compute the classical gauge field produced in the collision of two heavy nuclei at high energy. The leading order is obtained by linearizing the Yang-Mills equations in the light-cone gauge, and provides a simple formula for gluon production in nucleus-nucleus collisions. At this order factorization breaks down.
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@article{arxiv.0811.1707,
title = {Classical initial conditions in high energy nucleus-nucleus collisions},
author = {Yacine Mehtar-Tani},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0811.1707},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages, to appear in the proceedings of the Strong and Electroweak Matter conference (SEWM 2008), Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 25-29 Aug. 2008