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Renormalization group evolution of multi-gluon correlators in high energy QCD

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2011-11-16 v1

Abstract

Many-body QCD in leading high energy Regge asymptotics is described by the Balitsky-JIMWLK hierarchy of renormalization group equations for the x evolution of multi-point Wilson line correlators. These correlators are universal and ubiquitous in final states in deeply inelastic scattering and hadronic collisions. For instance, recently measured di-hadron correlations at forward rapidity in deuteron-gold collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) are sensitive to four and six point correlators of Wilson lines in the small x color fields of the dense nuclear target. We evaluate these correlators numerically by solving the functional Langevin equation that describes the Balitsky-JIMWLK hierarchy. We compare the results to mean-field Gaussian and large N_c approximations used in previous phenomenological studies. We comment on the implications of our results for quantitative studies of multi-gluon final states in high energy QCD.

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@article{arxiv.1108.4764,
  title  = {Renormalization group evolution of multi-gluon correlators in high energy QCD},
  author = {Adrian Dumitru and Jamal Jalilian-Marian and Tuomas Lappi and Bjoern Schenke and Raju Venugopalan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1108.4764},
  year   = {2011}
}

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8 pages, 7 figures

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