English

Reggeon Field Theory and Self Duality: Making Ends Meet

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2020-12-02 v2 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

Motivated by the question of unitarity of Reggeon Field Theory, we use the effective field theory philosophy to find possible Reggeon Field Theory Hamiltonians HRFTH_{RFT}. We require that HRFTH_{RFT} is self dual, reproduce all known limits (dilute-dense and dilute-dilute) and exhibits all the symmetries of the JIMWLK Hamiltonian. We find a family of Hamiltonians which satisfy all the above requirements. One of these is identical in form to the so called "diamond action" discussed in \cite{diamond,Balitsky05}. However we show by explicit calculation that the so called "diamond condition" is not satisfied beyond leading perturbative order.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2007.12132,
  title  = {Reggeon Field Theory and Self Duality: Making Ends Meet},
  author = {Alex Kovner and Eugene Levin and Ming Li and Michael Lublinsky},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.12132},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

42 pages, 7 figures; revised version responding to referee report

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