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Scattering Of Shock Waves In Qcd, Ian Balitsky
Scattering Of Shock Waves In Qcd, Ian Balitsky
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The cross section of heavy-ion collisions is represented as a double functional integral with the saddle point being the classical solution of the Yang-Mills equations with boundary conditions/sources in the form of two shock waves corresponding to the two colliding ions. I develop the expansion of this classical solution in powers of the commutator of the Wilson lines describing the colliding particles and calculate the first two terms of the expansion.