Boost covariant gluon distributions in large nuclei

Larry McLerran; Raju Venugopalan

doi:10.1016/S0370-2693(98)00214-7

Boost covariant gluon distributions in large nuclei

Larry McLerran
, Raju Venugopalan

Physics and Astronomy

University of Minnesota Twin Cities

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Abstract

It has been shown recently that there exist analytical solutions of the Yang-Mills equations for non-Abelian Weizsäcker-Williams fields which describe the distribution of gluons in large nuclei at small x. These solutions however depend on the color charge distribution at large rapidities. We here construct a model of the color charge distribution of partons in the fragmentation region and use it to compute the boost covariant momentum distributions of wee gluons. The phenomenological applications of our results are discussed.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	15-24
Number of pages	10
Journal	Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Volume	424
Issue number	1-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0370-2693(98)00214-7
State	Published - Apr 2 1998

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