Instantons in the saturation environment

DOI10.1016/S0375-9474(01)01276-3MaRDI QIDQ5954008zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Dmitri Kharzeev, Yuri V. Kovchegov, Eugene Levin

Publication date 29 January 2002

Published in Nuclear Physics. A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0106248

zbMATH Keywords

classical gluon field solutioneffective cutoff scaleQCD

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05)

Abstract: We show that instanton calculations in QCD become theoretically well defined in the gluon saturation environment which suppresses large size instantons. The effective cutoff scale is determined by the inverse of the saturation scale. We concentrate on two most important cases: the small-x tail of a gluon distribution of a high energy hadron or a large nucleus and the central rapidity region in a high energy hadronic or heavy ion collision. In the saturation regime the gluon density in a single large ultrarelativistic nucleus is high and gluonic fields are given by the classical solutions of the equations of motion. We show that these strong classical fields do not affect the density of instantons in the nuclear wave function compared to the instanton density in the vacuum. A classical solution with non-trivial topological charge is found for the gluon field of a single nucleus at the lowest order in the instanton perturbation theory. In the case of ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions a strong classical gluonic field is produced in the central rapidity region. We demonstrate that this field introduces a suppression factor of exp{-c ho^4 Q_s^4 / [8 alpha^2 N_c (Q_s au)^2]} in the instanton size distribution, where Q_s is the saturation scale of both (identical) nuclei, au is the proper time and c = 1 is the gluon liberation coefficient. This factor suggests that gluonic saturation effects at the early stages of nuclear collisions regulate the instanton size distribution in the infrared region and make the instanton density finite by suppressing large size instantons.

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