Time-dependent observables in heavy ion collisions. Part I. Setting up the formalism

Abstract We adapt the Schwinger-Keldysh formalism to study heavy-ion collisions in perturbative QCD. Employing the formalism, we calculate the two-point gluon correlation function G 22 aμ,bν due to the lowest-order classical gluon fields in the McLerran-Venugopalan model of heavy ion collisions and...

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Main Authors: Bin Wu, Yuri V. Kovchegov
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2018-03-01
Series:Journal of High Energy Physics
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/JHEP03(2018)158