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Initial energy density and gluon distribution from the Glasma in heavy-ion collisions

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arxiv 0811.0437 v1 pith:GGUE6SRK submitted 2008-11-04 hep-ph

Initial energy density and gluon distribution from the Glasma in heavy-ion collisions

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keywords energydensitycollisionsdistributiongluonheavy-ionassociatedclassical
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We estimate the energy density and the gluon distribution associated with the classical fields describing the early-time dynamics of the heavy-ion collisions. We first decompose the energy density into the momentum components exactly in the McLerran-Venugopalan model, with the use of the Wilson line correlators. Then we evolve the energy density with the free-field equation, which is justified by the dominance of the ultraviolet modes near the collision point. We also discuss the improvement with inclusion of nonlinear terms into the time evolution. Our numerical results at RHIC energy are fairly consistent with the empirical values.

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