We calculate azimuthal correlations between the exclusively produced vector meson and the scattered electron in Deep Inelastic Scattering processes at the future Electron-Ion Collider (EIC). We identify "kinematical" and "intrinsic" contributions to these correlations, and show that the correlations are sensitive to the non-trivial correlations in the gluon distribution of the target. Realistic predictions at the EIC kinematics are provided using two different approaches to describe the dipole-proton interaction at relatively small x.
@article{arxiv.2105.10144,
title = {Azimuthal correlations in diffractive scattering at the Electron-Ion Collider},
author = {Adrian Dumitru and Heikki Mäntysaari and Risto Paatelainen and Kaushik Roy and Farid Salazar and Björn Schenke},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.10144},
year = {2021}
}
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Contribution to the proceedings of DIS 2021, to be submitted to SciPost Proceedings