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

Abstract

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.

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Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
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1601716
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OSTI ID: 1606186
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BNL-213748-2020-JAAM
Journal ID: ISSN 2470-0010; PRVDAQ; 034028
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Physical Review D
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Journal Name: Physical Review D Journal Volume: 101 Journal Issue: 3; Journal ID: ISSN 2470-0010
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American Physical Society (APS)
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United States
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English
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73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS; Effective field theory; Electron-ion collisions; Feynman diagrams; Quantum chromodynamics; Quark & gluon jets; Renormalization group; Strong interaction

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Roy, Kaushik, and Venugopalan, Raju. NLO impact factor for inclusive photon + dijet production in e + A DIS at small x. United States: N. p., 2020. Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.101.034028.
Roy, Kaushik, & Venugopalan, Raju. NLO impact factor for inclusive photon + dijet production in e + A DIS at small x. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.101.034028
Roy, Kaushik, and Venugopalan, Raju. Mon . "NLO impact factor for inclusive photon + dijet production in e + A DIS at small x". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.101.034028.
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title = {NLO impact factor for inclusive photon + dijet production in e + A DIS at small x},
author = {Roy, Kaushik and Venugopalan, Raju},
abstractNote = {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.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevD.101.034028},
journal = {Physical Review D},
number = 3,
volume = 101,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Feb 24 00:00:00 EST 2020},
month = {Mon Feb 24 00:00:00 EST 2020}
}

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