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The Gluon Propagator in non-Abelian Weizs\"{a}cker-Williams fields

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-28 v1

Abstract

We carefully compute the gluon propagator in the background of a non--Abelian Weizs\"{a}cker--Williams field. This background field is generated by the valence quarks in very large nuclei. We find contact terms in the small fluctuation equations of motion which induce corrections to a previously incorrect result for the gluon propagator in such a background field. The well known problem of the Hermiticity of certain operators in Light Cone gauge is resolved for the Weizs\"{a}cker--Williams background field. This is achieved by working in a gauge where singular terms in the equations of motion are absent and then gauge transforming the small fluctuation fields to Light Cone gauge.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9501324,
  title  = {The Gluon Propagator in non-Abelian Weizs\"{a}cker-Williams fields},
  author = {Alejandro Ayala and Jamal Jalilian-Marian and Larry McLerran and Raju Venugopalan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9501324},
  year   = {2009}
}

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Latex, 23 pages, no figures