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Helicity-dependent extension of the McLerran-Venugopalan model

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2020-11-18 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment Nuclear Experiment Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We construct a generalization of the McLerran-Venugopalan (MV) model including helicity effects for a longitudinally polarized target (a proton or a large nucleus). The extended MV model can serve as the initial condition for the helicity generalization of the JIMWLK evolution equation constructed in our previous paper, as well as for calculation of helicity-dependent observables in the quasi-classical approximation to QCD.

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@article{arxiv.2005.14688,
  title  = {Helicity-dependent extension of the McLerran-Venugopalan model},
  author = {Florian Cougoulic and Yuri V. Kovchegov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.14688},
  year   = {2020}
}

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24 pages, 3 figures. v2 Typos and comments