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The shape of the proton at high energies

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-06-22 v1 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We present first calculations of the fluctuating gluon distribution in a proton as a function of impact parameter and rapidity employing the functional Langevin form of the JIMWLK renormalization group equation. We demonstrate that when including effects of confinement by screening the long range Coulomb field of the color charges, the evolution is unitary. The large-x structure of the proton, characterized by the position of three valence quarks, retains an effect on the proton shape down to very small values of x. We determine the dipole scattering amplitude as a function of impact parameter and dipole size and extract the rapidity evolution of the saturation scale and the proton radius.

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@article{arxiv.1407.8458,
  title  = {The shape of the proton at high energies},
  author = {Soeren Schlichting and Bjoern Schenke},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1407.8458},
  year   = {2015}
}

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8 pages, 6 figures