arXiv:2005.14688·v2·High Energy Physics — Phenomenology
Helicity-dependent extension of the McLerran-Venugopalan model
Florian Cougoulic🇺🇸 · Yuri V. Kovchegov🇺🇸
Abstract
We construct a generalization of the McLerran-Venugopalan (MV) model including helicity effects for a longitudinally polarized target (a proton or a large nucleus). The extended MV model can serve as the initial condition for the helicity generalization of the JIMWLK evolution equation constructed in our previous paper, as well as for calculation of helicity-dependent observables in the quasi-classical approximation to QCD.
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