Abstract:
We propose a novel formalism for
simultaneously describing
both, the hard and soft parton dynamics in
ultrarelativistic
collisions of nuclei. The emission of gluons
from the
initially coherent parton configurations of
the colliding
nuclei and low-$p_t$ color coherence effects
are treated in
the framework of a Yang-Mills transport
equation on a
coupled lattice-particle system. A collision
term is added
to the transport equation to account for the
remaining
intermediate and high-$p_t$ interactions in
an infrared
finite manner.