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arxiv: hep-th/0007139 · v3 · submitted 2000-07-18 · ✦ hep-th · hep-ph· nucl-th

Phase Space Description of the Leading Order Quark and Gluon Production from a Space-Time Dependent Chromofield

classification ✦ hep-th hep-phnucl-th
keywords productionsourcetermschromofielddependentspace-timederivedescription
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We derive source terms for the production of quarks and gluons from the QCD vacuum in the presence of a space-time dependent external chromofield A_{cl} to the order of S^{(1)}. We found that the source terms for the parton production processes A_{cl} -> q\bar{q} and A_{cl},A_{cl}A_{cl} -> gg also include the annihilation processes q\bar{q} -> A_{cl} and gg -> A_{cl},A_{cl}A_{cl}. The source terms we derive are applicable for the description of the production of partons with momentum p larger rhan gA which itself must be larger than \Lambda_{QCD}. We observe that these source terms for the production of partons from a space-time dependent chromofield can be used to study the production and equilibration of the quark-gluon plasma during the very early stages of an ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collision.

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