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Wee partons in large nuclei: from virtual dream to hard reality

Raju Venugopalan

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/9503378

Abstract

We construct a weak coupling, many body theory to compute parton distributions in large nuclei for x A-1/3. The wee partons are highly coherent, non--Abelian Weizsäcker--Williams fields. Radiative corrections to the classical results are discussed. The parton distributions for a single nucleus provide the initial conditions for the dynamical evolution of matter formed in ultrarelativistic nuclear collisions.

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