Coherent gluon production in very high energy heavy ion collisions
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-11-07 v1 Nuclear Experiment
Nuclear Theory
Abstract
The early stages of a relativistic heavy-ion collision are examined in the framework of an effective classical SU(3) Yang-Mills theory in the transverse plane. We compute the initial energy and number distributions, per unit rapidity, at mid-rapidity, of gluons produced in high energy heavy ion collisions. We discuss the phenomenological implications of our results in light of the recent RHIC data.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0108092,
title = {Coherent gluon production in very high energy heavy ion collisions},
author = {Alex Krasnitz and Yasushi Nara and Raju Venugopalan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0108092},
year = {2009}
}
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4 pages, 2 figures