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Deriving the Jalilian-Marian-Iancu-McLerran-Weigert-Leonidov-Kovner equation with classical and quantum source terms

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-11 v2

Abstract

We discuss the high-energy evolution equation in Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) in the framework of the color glass condensate. We rewrite the generating functional of QCD with the color glass condensate into a representation with the density of states and a simple eikonal coupling. In this representation we introduce an auxiliary variable which is identified as the quantum color charge density consistent with non-commutativity in the operator formalism. We revisit the derivation of the Jalilian-Marian-Iancu-McLerran-Weigert-Leonidov-Kovner (JIMWLK) equation to clarify how the non-commutative nature among the color charge density operators can be disregarded in the regime where the gluon density is high.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0603044,
  title  = {Deriving the Jalilian-Marian-Iancu-McLerran-Weigert-Leonidov-Kovner equation with classical and quantum source terms},
  author = {Kenji Fukushima},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0603044},
  year   = {2009}
}

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14 pages