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On running coupling in the JIMWLK evolution and its Langevin formulation

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2024-03-19 v2

Abstract

Various conventional running coupling prescriptions reproducing β0\beta_ 0-dependent terms of NLO JIMWLK are reviewed and found to be theoretically inconsistent: the JIMWLK evolution Hamiltonian with running coupling violates the requirement of positive semidefiniteness. This requirement appears to be tightly related to the possibility of having a Langevin formulation for the evolution. We also review the scheme that attributes a part of β0\beta_0-dependent terms to the DGLAP evolution of the projectile. The remaining β0\beta_0-dependent contributions sum up into so-called the ``daughter dipole'' prescription, which leads to a manifestly positive semidefinite Hamiltonian.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2310.10738,
  title  = {On running coupling in the JIMWLK evolution and its Langevin formulation},
  author = {Tolga Altinoluk and Guillaume Beuf and Michael Lublinsky and Vladimir V. Skokov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.10738},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

28 pages; version accepted for publication

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