TY - JOUR
T1 - Low x physics as an infinite twist (G)TMD framework
T2 - unravelling the origins of saturation
AU - Altinoluk, Taiga
AU - Boussarie, Renaud
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, The Author(s).
PY - 2019/10/1
Y1 - 2019/10/1
N2 - We show how the formulations of low x physics involving Wilson line operators can be fully rewritten into an infinite twist TMD or GTMD framework, respectively for inclusive and exclusive observables. This leads to a perfect match between low x physics and moderate x formulations of QCD in terms of GTMDs, TMDs, GPDs or PDFs. We derive the BFKL limit as a kinematic limit and argue that beyond the Wandzura-Wilczek approximation, 3-body and 4-body unintegrated PFDs should be taken into account even in this regime. Finally we analyse how saturation should be understood as 3 distinct effects: saturation through non-linearities in the evolution equations at small x, saturation through multiple interactions with slow gluons as TMD gauge links, and saturation as the enhancement of genuine twist corrections.
AB - We show how the formulations of low x physics involving Wilson line operators can be fully rewritten into an infinite twist TMD or GTMD framework, respectively for inclusive and exclusive observables. This leads to a perfect match between low x physics and moderate x formulations of QCD in terms of GTMDs, TMDs, GPDs or PDFs. We derive the BFKL limit as a kinematic limit and argue that beyond the Wandzura-Wilczek approximation, 3-body and 4-body unintegrated PFDs should be taken into account even in this regime. Finally we analyse how saturation should be understood as 3 distinct effects: saturation through non-linearities in the evolution equations at small x, saturation through multiple interactions with slow gluons as TMD gauge links, and saturation as the enhancement of genuine twist corrections.
KW - Heavy Ion Phenomenology
U2 - 10.1007/JHEP10(2019)208
DO - 10.1007/JHEP10(2019)208
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85074152081
SN - 1126-6708
VL - 2019
JO - Journal of High Energy Physics
JF - Journal of High Energy Physics
IS - 10
M1 - 208
ER -