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Collinearly improved kernel suppresses Coulomb tails in the impact-parameter dependent Balitsky-Kovchegov evolution

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2019-04-03 v2

Abstract

We solved the impact-parameter dependent Balitsky-Kovchegov equation with the recently proposed collinearly imporved kernel. We find that the solutions do not present the Coulomb tails that have affected previous studies. We also show that once choosing an adequate initial condition it is possible to obtain a reasonable description of HERA data on the structure function of the proton, as well as on the cross section for the exclusive production of a J/ψ\mathrm{J/}\psi vector meson off proton targets. As a further application of the solutions, we computed the impact-parameter dependent Weisz\"acker-Williams gluon distribution.

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@article{arxiv.1812.02548,
  title  = {Collinearly improved kernel suppresses Coulomb tails in the impact-parameter dependent Balitsky-Kovchegov evolution},
  author = {J. Cepila and J. G. Contreras and M. Matas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.02548},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

6 pages, 4 figures, published version, for downloading the dipole scattering amplitude computed in this work, see https://hep.fjfi.cvut.cz/