GREEN-FUNCTIONS IN THE COLOR FIELD OF A LARGE NUCLEUS

Citation
L. Mclerran et R. Venugopalan, GREEN-FUNCTIONS IN THE COLOR FIELD OF A LARGE NUCLEUS, Physical review. D. Particles and fields, 50(3), 1994, pp. 2225-2233
Citations number
8
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Particles & Fields
ISSN journal
05562821
Volume
50
Issue
3
Year of publication
1994
Part
2
Pages
2225 - 2233
Database
ISI
SICI code
0556-2821(1994)50:3<2225:GITCFO>2.0.ZU;2-4
Abstract
We compute the Green's functions for scalars, fermions, and vectors in the color field associated with the infinite momentum frame wave func tion of a large nucleus. Expectation values of this wave function can be computed by integrating over random orientations of the valence qua rk charge density. This relates the Green's functions to correlation f unctions of a two-dimensional, ultraviolet finite, field theory. We sh ow how one can compute the sea quark distribution functions and explic itly compute them in the kinematic range of transverse momenta, alpha( s)2mu2 << k(t)2 << mu2, where mu is the average color charge squared p er unit area. When m(quark)2 << mu2 approximately A1/3, 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.