title: Coherent gluon production in very-high-energy heavy-ion collisions.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: CENTRA and Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade do Algarve, Campus de Gambelas, P-8000 Faro, Portugal.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Krasnitz
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Nara
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Venugopalan