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Back-to-back inclusive dijets in DIS at small x: gluon Weizsäcker-Williams distribution at NLO

  • Nantes Université
  • University of California at Los Angeles
  • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  • University of California at Berkeley
  • United States Department of Energy
  • Jagiellonian University in Kraków

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Abstract

In [1], we performed the first complete computation of the back-to-back inclusive dijet cross-section in Deeply Inelastic Scattering (DIS) at small x Bj to next-to-leading order (NLO) in the Color Glass Condensate effective field theory (CGC EFT). We demonstrate here that for dijets with relative transverse momentum P and transverse momentum imbalance q , to leading power in q /P , the cross-section for longitudinally polarized photons can be fully factorized into the product of a perturbative impact factor and the non-perturbative Weizsäcker-Williams (WW) transverse momentum dependent (TMD) gluon distribution to NLO accuracy. The impact factor can further be expressed as the product of a universal soft factor which resums Sudakov double and single logs in P /q and a coefficient function given by a remarkably compact analytic expression. We show that in the CGC EFT the WW TMD satisfies a kinematically constrained JIMWLK renormalization group evolution in rapidity. This factorization formula is valid to all orders in Qs/q for q , Qs ≪ P , where Qs is the semi-hard saturation scale that grows with rapidity.

Original languageEnglish
Article number62
JournalJournal of High Energy Physics
Volume2023
Issue number8
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 2023

Keywords

  • Deep Inelastic Scattering or Small-x Physics
  • Factorization
  • Higher-Order Perturbative Calculations
  • Renormalization Group
  • Resummation

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