Coherent gluon production in very-high-energy heavy-ion collisions.
The early stages of a relativistic heavy-ion collision are examined in the framework of an effective classical SU(3) Yang-Mills theory in the transverse plane. We compute the initial energy and number distributions, per unit rapidity, at midrapidity, of gluons produced in high-energy heavy-ion collisions. We discuss the phenomenological implications of our results in light of the recent Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider data.
Krasnitz
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CENTRA and Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade do Algarve, Campus de Gambelas, P-8000 Faro, Portugal.
Nara
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Venugopalan
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