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Eikonal Expansion for Classical Gluon Fields: from Weak to Strong
Shane Brown, Alex DeBrizzi, Alex Kovner
We develop a formal procedure of eikonal expansion for classical fields in gluodynamics. We show that in the weak field limit the expansion is straightforward and determines the ei…
Variational analysis of the deconfinement phase transition
I. I. Kogan, A. Kovner, J. G. Milhano
We study the deconfining phase transition in 3+1 dimensional pure SU(N) Yang-Mills theory using a gauge invariant variational calculation. We generalize the variational ansatz of P…
Spatial 't Hooft loop, hot QCD and Z_N domain walls
C. Korthals-Altes, A. Kovner, M. Stephanov
We show that the deconfinement phase transition in the pure Yang-Mills theory can be characterized by the change of behaviour the spatial 't Hooft loop, V(C). In the confining phas…
Sphaleron Transition Rate in Presence of Dynamical Fermions
A. Kovner, A. Krasnitz, R. Potting
We investigate the effect of dynamical fermions on the sphaleron transition rate at finite temperature for the Abelian Higgs model in one spatial dimension. The fermion degrees of…
Gluon Production at High Transverse Momentum in the McLerran-Venugopalan Model of Nuclear Structure Functions
Alex Kovner, Larry McLerran, Heribert Weigert
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…
Quantum evolution of the disoriented chiral condensates
Y. Kluger, F. Cooper, E. Mottola +2
We study the dynamics of the chiral phase transition expected during the expansion of the quark-gluon plasma produced in a high energy hadron or heavy ion collision, using the $O(4…
Gluon Production from Non-Abelian Weizsäcker-Williams Fields in Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions
Alex Kovner, Larry McLerran, Heribert Weigert
We consider the collisions of large nuclei using the theory of McLerran and Venugopalan. The two nuclei are ultra-relativistic and sources of non-abelian Weizsäcker-Williams fields…