Spacetime structure of (3+1)D color fields in high energy nuclear collisions

We perform an analytic calculation of the color fields in heavy-ion collisions by considering the collision of longitudinally extended nuclei in the dilute limit of the color glass condensate effective field theory of high-energy QCD. Based on general analytic expressions for the color fields in the future light cone, we evaluate the rapidity profile of the transverse pressure within a simple specific model of the nuclear collision geometry and compare our results to (3 + 1)D classical Yang-Mills simulations.

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This study performs an analytic calculation of color fields in heavy-ion collisions by considering the collision of longitudinally extended nuclei in the dilute limit of the color glass condensate effective field theory of high-energy QCD. The rapidity profile of the transverse pressure is evaluated within a simple specific model of nuclear collision geometry and compared to (3 + 1)D classical Yang-Mills simulations, showing a correlation between the results.