Gluon production at high transverse momentum in the McLerran-Venugopalan model of nuclear structure functions

May, 1995
17 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 52 (1995) 3809-3814
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Report number:
  • TPI-MINN-95-16-T,
  • NUC-MINN-95-14-T,
  • HEP-MINN-95-1346

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Abstract:
We consider the production of high transverse momentum gluons in the McLerran-Venugopalan model of nuclear structure functions. We explicitly compute the high momentum component in this model. We compute the nuclear target size AA dependence of the distribution of produced gluons.
  • nucleus nucleus: nuclear reaction
  • gluon: hadroproduction
  • hadroproduction: gluon
  • transverse momentum: high
  • nucleus: structure function
  • gauge field theory: Yang-Mills
  • perturbation theory
  • field equations: solution
  • momentum spectrum: (gluon)
  • gluon: multiplicity