Green’s function in the color field of a large nucleus

Larry McLerran and Raju Venugopalan
Phys. Rev. D 50, 2225 – Published 1 August 1994
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Abstract

We compute the Green’s function for scalars, fermions, and vectors in the color field associated with the infinite momentum frame wave function of a large nucleus. Expectation values of this wave function can be computed by integrating over random orientations of the valence quark charge density. This relates the Green’s functions to correlation functions of a two-dimensional, ultraviolet finite, field theory. We show how one can compute the sea quark distribution functions and explicitly compute them in the kinematic range of transverse momenta, αs2μ2kt2μ2, where μ2 is the average color charge squared per unit area. When mquark2μ2A1/3, the sea quark contribution to the infinite momentum frame wave function saturates at a value that is the same as that for massless sea quarks.

  • Received 7 March 1994

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.50.2225

©1994 American Physical Society

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Larry McLerran and Raju Venugopalan

  • Theoretical Physics Institute, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455

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Vol. 50, Iss. 3 — 1 August 1994

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