Diffractive Dijet Production and Wigner Distributions from the Color Glass Condensate

Feb 13, 2019
20 pages
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  • Phys.Rev.D 99 (2019) 7, 074004
  • Published: Apr 9, 2019
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Abstract: (APS)
Experimental processes that are sensitive to parton Wigner distributions provide a powerful tool to advance our understanding of proton structure. In this work, we compute gluon Wigner and Husimi distributions of protons within the color glass condensate framework, which includes a spatially dependent McLerran-Venugopalan initial configuration and the explicit numerical solution of the Jalilian-Marian–Iancu–McLerran–Weigert–Leonidov–Kovner equations. We determine the leading anisotropy of the Wigner and Husimi distributions as a function of the angle between the impact parameter and transverse momentum. We study experimental signatures of these angular correlations at a proposed electron-ion collider by computing coherent diffractive dijet production cross sections in e+p collisions within the same framework. Specifically, we predict the elliptic modulation of the cross section as a function of the relative angle between the nucleon recoil and dijet transverse momentum for a wide kinematical range. We further predict its dependence on the collision energy, which is dominated by the growth of the proton with decreasing x.
Note:
  • prefactors for longitudinal and transverse cross sections corrected, figures updated, typos corrected, 20 pages, 22 figures
  • Strong Interactions
  • electron p: colliding beams
  • electron p: scattering
  • color glass condensate
  • diffraction: production
  • dijet: production
  • dijet: transverse momentum
  • Wigner
  • numerical calculations