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Title: NLO impact factor for inclusive photon + dijet production in e + A DIS at small x

Journal Article · · Physical Review D

We compute the next-to-leading order (NLO) impact factor for inclusive photon +dijet production in electron-nucleus (e+A) deeply inelastic scattering (DIS) at small $$x$$. An important ingredient in our computation is the simple structure of “shock wave” fermion and gluon propagators. This allows one to employ standard momentum space Feynman diagram techniques for higher order computations in the Regge limit of fixed $Q^2$ $$\gg$$ $$Λ^2_{QCD}$$ and x → 0. Our computations in the color glass condensate (CGC) effective field theory include the resummation of all-twist power corrections $$Q^2_s / Q^2$$, where $$Q_s$$ is the saturation scale in the nucleus. We discuss the structure of ultraviolet, collinear and soft divergences in the CGC, and extract the leading logs in x; the structure of the corresponding rapidity divergences gives a nontrivial first principles derivation of the JIMWLK renormalization group evolution equation for multiparton lightlike Wilson line correlators. Explicit expressions are given for the x-independent $$O(α_s)$$ contributions that constitute the NLO impact factor. These results, combined with extant results on NLO JIMWLK evolution, provide the ingredients to compute the inclusive photon + dijet cross section at small $$x$$ to $$O(α^3_s ln(x))$$. First results for the NLO impact factor in inclusive dijet production are recovered in the soft photon limit. A byproduct of our computation is the LO photon + 3 jet (quark-antiquark-gluon) cross section.

Research Organization:
Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0012704
OSTI ID:
1601716
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1606186
Report Number(s):
BNL-213748-2020-JAAM; PRVDAQ; 034028
Journal Information:
Physical Review D, Journal Name: Physical Review D Vol. 101 Journal Issue: 3; ISSN 2470-0010
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 42 works
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