Photoproduction of three jets in the CGC: gluon TMDs and dilute limit

Autor: Tolga Altinoluk, Renaud Boussarie, Cyrille Marquet, Pieter Taels
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol 2020, Iss 7, Pp 1-52 (2020)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1029-8479
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP07(2020)143
Popis: Abstract We study the process γA → q q ¯ g $$ q\overline{q}g $$ + X in the Color Glass Condensate (CGC) effective theory. After obtaining the cross section, we consider two kinematic limits which are encompassed in our result. In the so-called correlation limit, the vector sum of the transverse momenta of the three outgoing particles is small with respect to the individual transverse momenta; the cross section then simplifies considerably and can be written in a factorized form, sensitive to both the unpolarized and linearly-polarized Weizsäcker-Williams transverse momentum dependent gluon distribution function (gluon TMD). The second limit of the CGC cross section that we consider is the dilute limit, which we obtain after performing a weak-field expansion; we recover a typical linear-regime expression, involving a single unintegrated gluon distribution function. Using numerical simulations of the small-x QCD evolution of the TMDs, we investigate the rapidity dependence of the cross section in the correlation limit.
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