Evolution of the transverse-momentum dependent gluon distribution at small $x$
Abstract
Using the colour dipole picture for photon-nucleus interactions at small together with the Color Glass Condensate (CGC) effective theory, we demonstrate that the next-to-leading (NLO) order corrections to the cross-section for the inclusive production of a pair of hard jets encode not only the JIMWLK evolution with decreasing , but also the DGLAP evolution of the gluon distribution function and the CSS evolution of the gluon transverse momentum dependent (TMD) distribution. The emergent CSS equation takes the form of a rate equation describing the evolution of the dijet distribution in the transverse momentum imbalance when increasing the dijet relative momentum . All three types of evolution become important when both and are much larger than the nuclear saturation momentum and we propose a framework which encompasses all of them. The solution to the JIMWLK equation provides the source term for the DGLAP evolution with increasing , which in turn generates the initial condition for the CSS evolution with increasing .
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@article{arxiv.2406.04238,
title = {Evolution of the transverse-momentum dependent gluon distribution at small $x$},
author = {Paul Caucal and Edmond Iancu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.04238},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
8 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in PRD; for more clarity, the Supplemental Material has been merged within the main text