Published December 1, 2004 | Version v1
Journal article

Scattering of shock waves in QCD

  • 1. Theory Group, Jlab, 12000 Jeffeson Ave, Newport News, Virginia 23606 (United States)
  • 2. Physics Department, ODU, Norfolk Virginia 23529 (United States)

Description

The cross section of heavy-ion collisions is represented as a double functional integral with the saddle point being the classical solution of the Yang-Mills equations with boundary conditions/sources in the form of two shock waves corresponding to the two colliding ions. I develop the expansion of this classical solution in powers of the commutator of the Wilson lines describing the colliding particles and calculate the first two terms of the expansion

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
70
Journal Issue
11
Journal Page Range
p. 114030-114030.24
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ

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(c) 2004 The American Physical Society