Quark production in heavy ion collisions I. Formalism and boost invariant fermionic light-cone mode functions
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2016-03-23 v2 Nuclear Theory
Abstract
We revisit the problem of quark production in high energy heavy ion collisions, at leading order in in the color glass condensate framework. In this first paper, we setup the formalism and express the quark spectrum in terms of a set of mode functions of the Dirac equation. We determine analytically their initial value in the Fock-Schwinger gauge on a proper time surface , in a basis which makes manifest the boost invariance properties of this problem. We also describe a statistical algorithm to perform the sampling of the mode functions.
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@article{arxiv.1506.03327,
title = {Quark production in heavy ion collisions I. Formalism and boost invariant fermionic light-cone mode functions},
author = {F. Gelis and N. Tanji},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1506.03327},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
40 pages, 3 figures, alternate derivation in the new appendix B