Randomness in infinitesimal extent in the McLerran-Venugopalan model

Details Randomness in infinitesimal extent in the McLerran-Venugopalan model Randomness in infinitesimal extent in the McLerran-Venugopalan model

2007-11-15

arxiv.org/abs/0711.2364v2

Phys.Rev.D77:074005,2008

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

11 pages, 11 figures, typos corrected; Introduction and Discussion sections extended

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.77.074005

We study discrepancy between the analytical definition and the numerical implementation of the McLerran-Venugopalan (MV) model. The infinitesimal extent of a fast-moving nucleus should retain longitudinal randomness in the color source distribution even when the longitudinal extent approximates zero due to the Lorentz contraction, which is properly taken into account in the analytical treatment. We point out that the longitudinal randomness is lost in numerical simulations because of lack of the path-ordering of the Wilson line along the longitudinal direction. We quantitatively investigate how much the results with and without longitudinal randomness differ from each other. We finally mention that the discrepancy could be absorbed in a choice of the model parameter in the physical unit, and nevertheless, it is important for a full theory approach.

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