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Main Authors: Stewart, Iain, Vaidya, Varun
Format: Preprint
Published: 2023
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.16393
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author Stewart, Iain
Vaidya, Varun
author_facet Stewart, Iain
Vaidya, Varun
contents We present a description of saturation in small $x$ deep inelastic scattering from power counting in a top-down effective theory derived from QCD. A factorization formula isolates the universal physics of the nucleus at leading power in $x$. The onset of saturation is then understood as a breakdown in the expansion in an emergent power counting parameter, which is defined by the matrix element of a gauge invariant operator. We identify a new radiation mode, which enables us to extend previous literature by distinguishing the appearance of the saturation scale from the transition to non-linear evolution.
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spellingShingle Power Counting to Saturation
Stewart, Iain
Vaidya, Varun
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Nuclear Theory
We present a description of saturation in small $x$ deep inelastic scattering from power counting in a top-down effective theory derived from QCD. A factorization formula isolates the universal physics of the nucleus at leading power in $x$. The onset of saturation is then understood as a breakdown in the expansion in an emergent power counting parameter, which is defined by the matrix element of a gauge invariant operator. We identify a new radiation mode, which enables us to extend previous literature by distinguishing the appearance of the saturation scale from the transition to non-linear evolution.
title Power Counting to Saturation
topic High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Nuclear Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.16393