Calculating TMDs of a large nucleus: quasi-classical approximation and quantum evolution

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2015.12.008zbMATH Open1332.81279arXiv1505.01176OpenAlexW2221722981MaRDI QIDQ254965FDOQ254965

Authors: Yuri V. Kovchegov, Matthew D. Sievert 

Publication date: 8 March 2016

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We set up a formalism for calculating transverse-momentum-dependent parton distribution functions (TMDs) using the tools of saturation physics. By generalizing the quasi-classical Glauber-Gribov-Mueller/McLerran-Venugopalan approximation to allow for the possibility of spin-orbit coupling, we show how any TMD can be calculated in the saturation framework. This can also be applied to the TMDs of a proton by modeling it as a large "nucleus." To illustrate our technique, we calculate the quark TMDs of an unpolarized nucleus at large-x: the unpolarized quark distribution and the quark Boer-Mulders distribution. We observe that spin-orbit coupling leads to mixing between different TMDs of the nucleus and of the nucleons. We then consider the evolution of TMDs: at large-x, in the double-logarithmic approximation, we obtain the Sudakov form factor. At small-x the evolution of unpolarized-target quark TMDs is governed by BK/JIMWLK evolution, while the small-x evolution of polarized-target quark TMDs appears to be dominated by the QCD Reggeon.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1505.01176

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zbMATH Keywords

Glauber-Gribov-Mueller/McLerran-Venugopalan approximation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nuclear physics (81V35) Semiclassical techniques, including WKB and Maslov methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81Q20) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05)

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