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Title: Resumming double logarithms in the QCD evolution of color dipoles

Journal Article · · Physics Letters B

The higher-order perturbative corrections, beyond leading logarithmic accuracy, to the BFKL evolution in QCD at high energy are well known to suffer from a severe lack-of-convergence problem, due to radiative corrections enhanced by double collinear logarithms. Via an explicit calculation of Feynman graphs in light cone (time-ordered) perturbation theory, we show that the corrections enhanced by double logarithms (either energy-collinear, or double collinear) are associated with soft gluon emissions which are strictly ordered in lifetime. These corrections can be resummed to all orders by solving an evolution equation which is non-local in rapidity. This equation can be equivalently rewritten in local form, but with modified kernel and initial conditions, which resum double collinear logs to all orders. We extend this resummation to the next-to-leading order BFKL and BK equations. The first numerical studies of the collinearly-improved BK equation demonstrate the essential role of the resummation in both stabilizing and slowing down the evolution.

Research Organization:
Columbia Univ., New York, NY (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE; USDOE Office of Science (SC)
Contributing Organization:
European Research Council; Agence Nationale de la Recherche
Grant/Contract Number:
FG02-92ER40699
OSTI ID:
1197803
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1185120
Journal Information:
Physics Letters B, Journal Name: Physics Letters B Vol. 744 Journal Issue: C; ISSN 0370-2693
Publisher:
ElsevierCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
Netherlands
Language:
English
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Cited by: 114 works
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