The first fermi in a high energy nuclear collision
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
At very high energies, weak coupling, non-perturbative methods can be used to study classical gluon production in nuclear collisions. One observes in numerical simulations that after an initial ``formation'' time, the produced partons are on shell, and their subsequent evolution can be studied using transport theory. At the initial formation time, a simple non-perturbative relation exists between the energy and number densities of the produced partons, and a scale determined by the saturated parton density in the nucleus.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9910391,
title = {The first fermi in a high energy nuclear collision},
author = {Alex Krasnitz and Raju Venugopalan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9910391},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
Latex, 6 pgs., uses sprocl.sty; invited talk at ISMD99, Brown Univ., august 11th-15th, 1999