Gluon production in current nucleus and nucleon - nucleus collisions in a quasiclassical approximation
Feb, 199829 pages
Published in:
- Nucl.Phys.B 529 (1998) 451-479
e-Print:
- hep-ph/9802440 [hep-ph]
Report number:
- CU-TP-876
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Abstract:
We calculate gluon production in deep inelastic scattering of the current j= - (1/4) F_{\mu\nu}^a F_{\mu\nu}^a off a large nucleus and in nucleon-nucleus collisions. In a covariant gauge calculation the transverse momentum spectrum of the gluon is determined by the final state interactions of the gluon with the nucleons in the nucleus. In a light-cone gauge calculation final state interactions are absent and these effects come from the light-cone wavefunction of the nucleus. We work in an approximation which neglects QCD evolution of gluons in the nucleon, that is in a quasi-classical approximation.Note:
- LaTeX, 29 pages, 19 figures Report-no: CU-TP-876
- 24.85.+p
- 12.38.Bx
- 12.38.Mh
- Perturbative QCD
- Small- x physics
- Nuclear collisions
- Small- x physics
- nucleon nucleus: nuclear reaction
- quantum chromodynamics: current
- current: deep inelastic scattering
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