Gluon production in current nucleus and nucleon - nucleus collisions in a quasiclassical approximation

Feb, 1998
29 pages
Published in:
  • Nucl.Phys.B 529 (1998) 451-479
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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