Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
1837833 Nuclear Physics A 2007 24 Pages PDF
Abstract

The Color Glass Condensate (CGC) predicts the form of the nuclear wavefunction in QCD at very small x. Using this, we compute the wavefunction for the collision of two nuclei, infinitesimally in the forward light cone. We show that the Wigner transformation of this wavefunction generates rapidity dependent fluctuations around the boost invariant classical solution which describe the glasma in the forward light cone.

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