1997/05/31 by Larry McLerran, Raju Venugopalan
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Abelian group #Color charge #Covariant transformation #Distribution (mathematics) #Gluon #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Mathematical analysis #Mathematical physics #Mathematics #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Parton #Physics #Pure mathematics #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Quantum chromodynamics #Quantum electrodynamics #hep-ph #nucl-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/s0370-2693(98)00214-7
published as Phys.Lett.B424:15-24,1998 · 15 pages, LaTex + 1 figure, revised version, more extensive discussion
arxiv created 1997/11/18 · openalex publication_date 1998/04/01 · arxiv updated 2011/08/17 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
It has been shown recently that there exist analytical solutions of the Yang-Mills equations for non-Abelian Weizsäcker-Williams fields which describe the distribution of gluons in large nuclei at small x. These solutions however depend on the color charge distribution at large rapidities. We here construct a model of the color charge distribution of partons in the fragmentation region and use it to compute the boost covariant momentum distributions of wee gluons. The phenomenological applications of our results are discussed.