Scattering of shock waves in QCD
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-11-10 v1
Abstract
The cross section of heavy-ion collisions is represented as a double functional integral with the saddle point being the classical solution of the Yang-Mills equations with boundary conditions/sources in the form of two shock waves corresponding to the two colliding ions. I develop the expansion of this classical solution in powers of the commutator of the Wilson lines describing the colliding particles and calculate the first two terms of the expansion.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0409314,
title = {Scattering of shock waves in QCD},
author = {Ian Balitsky},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0409314},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
23 pages, 13 figures