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arxiv: 1411.6630 · v3 · pith:74UBBV56new · submitted 2014-11-24 · ✦ hep-ph · nucl-th

Anisotropy of the semi-classical gluon field of a large nucleus at high energy

classification ✦ hep-ph nucl-th
keywords fieldsgluonnucleusacker-williamsamplitudesanisotropicanisotropiesanisotropy
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The McLerran-Venugopalan model describes a highly boosted hadron/nucleus as a sheet of random color charges which source soft classical Weizs\"acker-Williams gluon fields. We show that due to fluctuations, individual configurations are azimuthally anisotropic. We present initial evidence that impact parameter dependent small-x JIMWLK resummation preserves such anisotropies over several units of rapidity. Finally, we compute the first four azimuthal Fourier amplitudes of the S-matrix of a fundamental dipole in such background fields.

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