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We show explicitly that the leading soft gluon $p_T$ distribution, predicted by Kovner, McLerran, and Weigert after solving classical Yang-Mills equations, can be understood in terms of conventional QCD perturbation theory. We also…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 Xiaofeng Guo

We present a formalism for gluon-gluon elastic scattering in the presence of the classical color field of the protons in high energy collision. The classical field is obtained by solving the classical Yang-Mills equation in the covariant…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-12-01 Man-Fung Cheung , Charles B. Chiu

The dynamics of gluons and quarks in a relativistic nuclear collision are described, within the framework of a classical mean-field transport theory, by the coupled equations for the Yang-Mills field and a collection of colored point…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 W. Poeschl , B. Mueller

We study gluon production in high energy proton-nucleus collisions in the semi-classical framework of the Color Glass Condensate. We develop a general formalism to compute gluon fields in covariant gauge to lowest order in the classical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-06 J. P. Blaizot , F. Gelis , R. Venugopalan

Decoding the internal structure of the proton is a fundamental challenge in physics. Historically, any new discovery about the proton has fuelled advances in several scientific fields. We have reported that gluons inside the proton…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-08 Wei Zhu , Jianhong Ruan , Xurong Chen , Yuchen Tang

Using analytic solutions of the Yang-Mills equations we calculate the initial flow of energy of the classical gluon field created in collisions of large nuclei at high energies. We find radial and elliptic flow which follows gradients in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Rainer J. Fries , Guangyao Chen

Nuclei colliding at very high energy create a strong, quasi-classical gluon field during the initial phase of their interaction. We present an analytic calculation of the initial space-time evolution of this field in the limit of very high…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-01-31 Joseph I. Kapusta , Guangyao Chen , Rainer J. Fries , Yang Li

The leading soft gluon p_T distribution in heavy ion collisions was obtained by Kovner, McLerran, and Weigert after solving classical Yang-Mills equations. I show explicitly this result can be understood in terms of conventional QCD…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Xiaofeng Guo

We find double copy relations between classical radiating solutions in Yang-Mills theory coupled to dynamical color charges and their counterparts in a cubic bi-adjoint scalar field theory which interacts linearly with particles carrying…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-12-29 Walter D. Goldberger , Siddharth G. Prabhu , Jedidiah O. Thompson

In the Color Glass Condensate approach to the description of high energy heavy ion collisions, one needs to superimpose small random Gaussian distributed fluctuations to the classical background field, in order to resum the leading secular…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-16 Thomas Epelbaum , Francois Gelis

Nuclei colliding at very high energy create a strong, quasi-classical gluon field during the initial phase of their interaction. We present an analytic calculation of the initial space-time evolution of this field in the limit of very high…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-01-06 G. Chen , R. J. Fries , J. I. Kapusta , Y. Li

The gluon distribution of a nucleon propagating through a nucleus can change depending on how far the penetration depth is. It is a nonperturbative process that we describe by an evolution equation. The kernel of the integral equation is to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 R. C. Hwa

It has been shown recently that there exist analytical solutions of the Yang-Mills equations for non-Abelian Weizs\"acker-Williams fields which describe the distribution of gluons in large nuclei at small x. These solutions however depend…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-08-17 Larry McLerran , Raju Venugopalan

In high energy proton-nucleus collisions, the single- and double-inclusive soft gluon productions at the leading order have been calculated and phenomenologically studied in various approaches for many years. These studies do not take into…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-14 Ming Li , Vladimir V. Skokov

We present the results of an analytical calculation of the distribution of gluons in the state immediately following a heavy ion collision in the quasi-classical limit of QCD given by McLerran-Venugopalan model. We show that the typical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Yuri V. Kovchegov

We study propagation of a point particle in a massless higher-spin background employing the light-cone gauge approach. We find the point particle action and the associated phase space Poincare charges at the leading order in higher-spin…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-23 Vyacheslav Ivanovskiy , Dmitry Ponomarev

We have studied how lepton pairs from decays of heavy-flavoured mesons produced in p$A$ collisions can be used to determine the modifications of the gluon distribution in the nucleus. Since heavy quark production is dominated by the $gg$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 K. J. Eskola , V. J. Kolhinen , R. Vogt

We extend previous work on high energy nuclear collisions in the Color Glass Condensate model to study collisions of finite ultrarelativistic nuclei. The changes implemented include a) imposition of color neutrality at the nucleon level and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-07-09 Alex Krasnitz , Yasushi Nara , Raju Venugopalan

Within the framework of a generalized collinear factorization for multiple parton scattering in nuclear medium, twist-4 contributions to DIS off a large nucleus can be factorized as a convolution of hard parts and two-parton correlation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-13 Zuo-tang Liang , Xin-Nian Wang , Jian Zhou

We present a brief review of phenomenological applications of the gluon saturation approach to the proton-nucleus collisions at high energies.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Kirill Tuchin