Quark production in heavy ion collisions I: formalism and boost invariant fermionic light-cone mode functions
We revisit the problem of quark production in high energy heavy ion collisions, at leading order in $\alpha_s$ in the color glass condensate framework. In this first paper, we setup the formalism and express the quark spectrum in terms of a set of mode functions of the Dirac equation. We determine a...
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| Format: | Article (Journal) |
| Language: | English |
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8 Feb 2016
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Journal of high energy physics
Year: 2016, Issue: 2, Pages: 126 |
| ISSN: | 1029-8479 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/JHEP02(2016)126 |
| Online Access: | Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP02(2016)126 Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: http://arxiv.org/abs/1506.03327 
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| Author Notes: | F. Gelis, N. Tanji |
| Summary: | We revisit the problem of quark production in high energy heavy ion collisions, at leading order in $\alpha_s$ in the color glass condensate framework. In this first paper, we setup the formalism and express the quark spectrum in terms of a set of mode functions of the Dirac equation. We determine analytically their initial value in the Fock-Schwinger gauge on a proper time surface $Q_s\tau_0\ll 1$, in a basis which makes manifest the boost invariance properties of this problem. We also describe a statistical algorithm to perform the sampling of the mode functions. |
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| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| ISSN: | 1029-8479 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/JHEP02(2016)126 |