Kinetic equation for gluons at the early stage
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2008-11-26 v1
Abstract
We derive the kinetic equation for pure gluon QCD plasma in a general way, applying the background field method. We show that the quantum kinetic equation contains a term as in the classical case, that describes a color charge precession of partons moving in the gauge field. We emphasize that this new term is necessary for the gauge covariance of the resulting equation.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0112314,
title = {Kinetic equation for gluons at the early stage},
author = {Qun Wang and Krzysztof Redlich and Horst Stöcker and Walter Greiner},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0112314},
year = {2008}
}
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6 pages, no figure, to appear in the proceedings of the 6th international conference on strange quarks in matter, Frankfurt, Germany, 25-29 september 2001