Non-Abelian Weizsacker-Williams field and a two-dimensional effective
  color charge density for a very large nucleus

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Abstract

We consider a very large ultra-relativistic nucleus. Assuming a simple model of the nucleus and weak coupling we find a classical solution for the gluon field of the nucleus and construct the two-dimensional color charge density for McLerran-Venugopalan model out of it. We prove that the density of states distribution, as a function of color charge density, is Gaussian, confirming the assumption made by McLerran and Venugopalan.

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Gluon Production at High Transverse Momentum in the McLerran-Venugopalan Model of Nuclear Structure Functions

Alex Kovner, Larry McLerran, Heribert Weigert (1995)

We consider the production of high transverse momentum gluons in the McLerran-Venugopalan model of nuclear structure functions. We explicitly compute the high momentum component in this model. We compute the nuclear target size \(A\) dependence of the distribution of produced gluons.