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The gluon propagator in non-Abelian Weizsaecker-Williams fields

  • 1. Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (United States). School of Physics and Astronomy
  • 2. Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States). Inst. for Nuclear Theory

Description

The authors carefully compute the gluon propagator in the background of a non-Abelian Weizsaecker-Williams field. This background field is generated by the valence quarks in very large nuclei. They find contact terms in the small fluctuation equations of motion which induce corrections to a previously incorrect result for the gluon propagator in such a background field. The well known problem of the Hermiticity of certain operators in Light Cone gauge is resolved for the Weizsaecker-Williams background field. This is achieved by working in a gauge where singular terms in the equations of motion are absent and then gauge transforming the small fluctuation fields to Light Cone gauge

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23 p.
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DOE/ER/40561--175

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Contract FG06-90ER40561
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USDOE, Washington, DC (United States).