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Diffractive deep inelastic scattering at NLO in the dipole picture

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2024-01-31 v1 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We compute the transverse and longitudinal diffractive structure functions to full next-to-leading order accuracy in the dipole picture of deep inelastic scattering. Our calculation uses the standard light-cone perturbation theory method for the partonic content of the virtual photon, together with the Color Glass Condensate description of the target color field. Our result includes as a subset the qqˉgq\bar{q}g contribution calculated earlier. We show that there is a rapidity divergence that can be factorized into the BK/JIMWLK evolution of the target Wilson lines, and that all other divergences cancel.

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@article{arxiv.2401.17251,
  title  = {Diffractive deep inelastic scattering at NLO in the dipole picture},
  author = {Guillaume Beuf and Tuomas Lappi and Heikki Mäntysaari and Risto Paatelainen and Jani Penttala},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.17251},
  year   = {2024}
}

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47 pages, 26 figures

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