Production of gluons in the classical field model for heavy ion collisions

2003/03/31 by T. Lappi · 22 citations
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Gluon #Heavy ion #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Ion #Mathematics #Multiplicity (mathematics) #Nuclear physics #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Physics #Plasma #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Quantum electrodynamics #Quantum mechanics #Quark–gluon plasma #Spectral line #hep-ph #nucl-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevc.67.054903

published as Phys.Rev. C67 (2003) 054903 · 9 pages, 11 figures, RevTeX; error in eq. (11) corrected, figures clarified, published in Phys. Rev. C

openalex publication_date 2003/05/22 · arxiv created 2003/05/26 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

The initial stages of relativistic heavy ion collisions are studied numerically in the framework of a (2+1)-dimensional classical Yang-Mills theory. We calculate the energy and number densities and momentum spectra of the produced gluons. The model is also applied to noncentral collisions. The numerical results are discussed in the light of RHIC measurements of energy and multiplicity and other theoretical calculations. Some problems of the present approach are pointed out.

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