Gluon production from non-Abelian Weizsaecker-Williams fields in nucleus-nucleus collisions
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455 (United States)
We consider the collisions of large nuclei using the theory of McLerran and Venugopalan. The two nuclei are ultrarelativistic and sources of non-Abelian Weizseacker-Williams fields. These sources are in the end averaged over all color orientations locally with a Gaussian weight. We show that there is a solution of the equations of motion for the two nucleus scattering problem where the fields are time and rapidity independent before the collision. After the collision the solution depends on proper time, but is independent of rapidity. We show how to extract the produced gluons from the classical evolution of the fields.
- Research Organization:
- University of Minnesota
- DOE Contract Number:
- FG02-94ER40823; FG02-87ER40328
- OSTI ID:
- 132976
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review, D, Journal Name: Physical Review, D Journal Issue: 11 Vol. 52; ISSN PRVDAQ; ISSN 0556-2821
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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