High-energy effective action from scattering of QCD shock waves

Conference · Thu Jun 16 00:00:00 EDT 2005

OSTI ID:895053

Balitsky, Ian

At high energies, the relevant degrees of freedom are Wilson lines - infinite gauge links ordered along straight lines collinear to the velocities of colliding particles. The effective action for these Wilson lines is determined by the scattering of QCD shock waves. I develop the symmetric expansion of the effective action in powers of strength of one of the shock waves and calculate the leading term of the series. The corresponding first-order effective action, symmetric with respect to projectile and target, includes both up and down fan diagrams and pomeron loops.

• Research Organization: Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE - Office of Energy Research (ER)
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-84ER40150
• OSTI ID: 895053
• Report Number(s): JLAB-THY-06-575; DOE/ER/40150-4124
• Resource Relation: Conference: International Conference on QCD and Hadronic Physics, Beijing, China, 16-20 Jun 2005.
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English