Volume 374 - Light Cone 2019 - QCD on the light cone: from hadrons to heavy ions (LC2019) - Contributed
Sub-eikonal corrections and low-$x$ helicity evolution
G.A. Chirilli
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Pre-published on: 2020 May 19
Published on: 2020 May 26
Abstract
Most of the progress in high-energy Quantum Chromodynamics has been obtained within the eikonal approximation and infinite Wilson-line operators. Evolution equations of Wilson lines with respect to the rapidity parameter encode the dynamics of the hadronic processes at high energy. However, even at high energy many interesting
aspects of hadron dynamics are not accessible within the eikonal approximation, the spin physics being an obvious example. The higher precision reached by the experiments and the possibility to probe spin dynamics at future Electron Ion Colliders make the study of deviations from eikonal approximation especially timely.

I will present the high-energy sub-eikonal corrections and the low-$x$ helicity evolution through the high-energy Operator Product Expansion.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.374.0034
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