Rotating the Color Glass Condensate: Stabilizing High-Energy Evolution at NLO

6 May 2026, 14:30
20m
Sala SATURNO A, First Floor (Hotel Carlton)

Sala SATURNO A, First Floor

Hotel Carlton

Talk WG2 Small-x, Diffraction and Vector Mesons WG2 Small-x, diffraction and vector mesons

Speaker

Piotr Korcyl (Jagiellonian University)

Description

High-energy QCD evolution beyond leading order suffers from instabilities driven by large collinear logarithms. We present a framework, consistent with the standard high-energy operator product expansion (OPE), that restores perturbative stability order by order. The method involves a change of basis in the space of high-energy operators, which modifies both the evolution kernel and the coefficient functions while leaving physical observables invariant. Within this factorization scheme, we derive a next-to-leading-order renormalization-group equation whose numerical solution exhibits stable evolution up to large rapidities, thereby establishing a solid foundation for precision studies of gluon saturation at current and future colliders.

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Authors

Piotr Korcyl (Jagiellonian University) Yacine Mehtar-Tani (BNL)

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