Quantum structure of the non-Abelian Weizsacker-Williams field for a very large nucleus
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2016-08-24 v1
Abstract
We consider the McLerran-Venugopalan model for calculation of the small- part of the gluon distribution function for a very large ultrarelativistic nucleus at weak coupling. We construct the Feynman diagrams which correspond to the classical Weizs\"{a}cker-Williams field found previously [Yu. V. Kovchegov, Phys. Rev. D 54, 5463 (1996)] as a solution of the classical equations of motion for the gluon field in the light-cone gauge. Analyzing these diagrams we obtain a limit for the McLerran-Venugopalan model. We show that as long as this limit is not violated a classical field can be used for calculation of scattering amplitudes.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9701229,
title = {Quantum structure of the non-Abelian Weizsacker-Williams field for a very large nucleus},
author = {Yuri V. Kovchegov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9701229},
year = {2016}
}
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13 pages, REVTeX, 9 figures