arXiv:hep-ph/0202144·v1·High Energy Physics — Phenomenology
Parton Production Via Vacuum Polarization
Dennis D. Dietrich (Frankfurt U.)🇩🇪 · Gouranga C. Nayak (LANL)🇺🇸 · Walter Greiner (Frankfurt U)🇩🇪
Abstract
We discuss the production mechanism of partons via vacuum polarization during the very early, gluon dominated phase of an ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collision in the framework of the background field method of quantum chromodynamics.
Comments: 3 pages, Latex, 3 figures (eps), to be published in JPhysG, SQM2001 proceedings