Particle production in high-energy collisions beyond the shockwave limit

Abstract

We compute next to eikonal (NE) and next to next to eikonal (NNE) corrections to the Lipatov vertex due to a finite target thickness. These arise from electric field insertions into the eikonal Wilson lines. We then derive a $k_T$-factorization formula for single inclusive gluon production at NNE accuracy and find that nuclear effects are absent. We also analyze NNE corrections to two-gluon production where some of the contributions are found to exhibit corrections proportional to $A^{2/3}$.

Comments: 11 pages, 5 figures, corrected the result for the vertex, added derivation of two-gluon production cross section, published version