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Initial Singularity of the Little Bang

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v2

Abstract

The Color Glass Condensate (CGC) predicts the form of the nuclear wavefunction in QCD at very small x. Using this, we compute the wavefunction for the collision of two nuclei, infinitesimally in the forward light cone. We show that the Wigner transformation of this wavefunction generates rapidity dependent fluctuations around the boost invariant classical solution which describe the Glasma in the forward light cone.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0610416,
  title  = {Initial Singularity of the Little Bang},
  author = {Kenji Fukushima and Francois Gelis and Larry McLerran},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0610416},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

27 pages, 3 figures, references added, typos corrected

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