Gluon Pair Production from a Space-Time Dependent Classical Chromofield via Vacuum Polarization

Abstract

We investigate the production of gluon pairs from a space-time dependent classical chromofield via vacuum polarization within the framework of the background field method of QCD. The investigation of the production of gluon pairs is important in the study of the evolution of the quark-gluon plasma in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions at RHIC and LHC.

Talk Given at Dynamical Aspects of the QCD Phase Transition, ECT* Trento, Italy, March 12-15, 2001