Classical initial conditions in high energy nucleus-nucleus collisions
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✦ hep-ph
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classicalcollisionsenergygaugehighnucleus-nucleusorderbreaks
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An iterative proceedure is proposed to compute the classical gauge field produced in the collision of two heavy nuclei at high energy. The leading order is obtained by linearizing the Yang-Mills equations in the light-cone gauge, and provides a simple formula for gluon production in nucleus-nucleus collisions. At this order $k_t-$factorization breaks down.
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