Rapidity distribution of gluons in the classical field model for heavy ion collisions
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2007-05-23 v1 Nuclear Theory
Abstract
The rapidity distribution of gluons produced in heavy ion collisions is studied by a numerical computation in 2+1-dimensional classical Yang-Mills theory. By assuming that the classical source strength g^2 mu depends on rapidity as g^4 mu^2 ~ exp(+- lambda y) and studying collisions of two nuclei with different g^2 mu we find that the rapidity distribution of produced gluons at central rapidities is very broad. The transverse energy is seen to decrease even more slowly as a function of y than the multiplicity. We discuss these results and the range in y and sqrt(s) where they are applicable in the light of experimental results and other theoretical calculations.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0409328,
title = {Rapidity distribution of gluons in the classical field model for heavy ion collisions},
author = {T. Lappi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0409328},
year = {2007}
}
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