Published June 27, 2014 | Version v1
Journal article

Structure of longitudinal chromomagnetic fields in high energy collisions

  • 1. Department of Natural Sciences, Baruch College, New York, NY 10010 (United States)
  • 2. Helsinki Institute of Physics, P.O. Box 64, 00014 University of Helsinki (Finland)
  • 3. Department of Physics, P.O. Box 35, 40014 University of Jyväskylä (Finland)
  • 4. Akita International University, Yuwa, Akita-city 010-1292 (Japan)

Description

We compute expectation values of spatial Wilson loops in the forward light cone of high-energy collisions. We consider ensembles of gauge field configurations generated from a classical Gaussian effective action as well as solutions of high-energy renormalization group evolution with fixed and running coupling. The initial fields correspond to a color field condensate exhibiting domain-like structure over distance scales of order the saturation scale. At later times universal scaling emerges at large distances for all ensembles, with a nontrivial critical exponent. Finally, we compare the results for the Wilson loop to the two-point correlator of magnetic fields

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2014.05.005

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physletb.2014.05.005;
arXiv
arXiv:1401.4124v2;
PII
S0370-2693(14)00307-4;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics Letters. Section B
Journal Volume
734
Journal Issue
Complete
Journal Page Range
p. 7-12
ISSN
0370-2693
CODEN
PYLBAJ

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