Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2008

DOI

10.1103/PhysRevD.77.014019

Publication Title

Physical Review D

Volume

77

Issue

1

Pages

014019 (43 pp.)

Abstract

The small-x deep inelastic scattering in the saturation region is governed by the nonlinear evolution of Wilson-line operators. In the leading logarithmic approximation it is given by the Balitsky-Kovchegov equation for the evolution of color dipoles. In the next-to-leading order the Balitsky-Kovchegov equation gets contributions from quark and gluon loops as well as from the tree gluon diagrams with quadratic and cubic nonlinearities. We calculate the gluon contribution to the small-x evolution of Wilson lines (the quark part was obtained earlier).

Original Publication Citation

Balitsky, I., & Chirilli, G. A. (2008). Next-to-leading order evolution of color dipoles. Physical Review D, 77(1), 014019-014011. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.77.014019

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