Lattice gauge description of colliding nuclei

Aug, 1998
8 pages
Published in:
  • J.Phys.G 25 (1999) L109-L115
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Report number:
  • DUKE-TH-98-168

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Abstract:
We propose a novel formalism for simultaneously describing both, the hard and soft parton dynamics in ultrarelativistic collisions of nuclei. The emission of gluons from the initially coherent parton configurations of the colliding nuclei and low-ptp_t color coherence effects are treated in the framework of a Yang-Mills transport equation on a coupled lattice-particle system. A collision term is added to the transport equation to account for the remaining intermediate and high-ptp_t interactions in an infrared finite manner.
Note:
  • 8 pages Report-no: DUKE-TH-98-168
  • scattering: heavy ion
  • model: nuclear reaction
  • model: parton
  • gluon: emission
  • color: coherence
  • transverse momentum: low
  • gauge field theory: SU(N)
  • lattice field theory
  • transport theory