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Color glass condensate formalism, Balitsky-JIMWLK evolution, and Lipatov’s high energy effective action

Martin Hentschinski
Phys. Rev. D 97, 114027 – Published 26 June 2018

Abstract

We investigate the question whether Lipatov’s high energy effective action is capable of reproducing quark and gluon propagators that resum the interaction with a strong background field within high energy factorization. Such propagators are frequently employed in calculations within the color glass condensate formalism, in particular when considering scattering of a dilute projectile on a dense target nucleus or nucleon. We find that such propagators can be obtained from the high energy effective action, if a special parametrization of the gluonic field is used, first proposed by Lipatov in the original publication on the high energy effective action. The obtained propagators are used to rederive from the high energy effective action the leading order Balitsky, Jalilian-Marian, Iancu, McLerran, Weigert, Leonidov, Kovner evolution equation in covariant gauge. As an aside, our result confirms the definition of the Reggeized gluon as the logarithm of an adjoint Wilson line, proposed in the literature.

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  • Received 21 February 2018

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.97.114027

Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article’s title, journal citation, and DOI. Funded by SCOAP3.

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Nuclear PhysicsParticles & Fields

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Martin Hentschinski*

  • Departamento de Actuaria, Física y Matemáticas, Universidad de las Américas Puebla, Santa Catarina Martir, 72820 Puebla, Mexico

  • *Corresponding author. martin.hentschinski@udlap.mx

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Vol. 97, Iss. 11 — 1 June 2018

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