Universality of multiparticle production in QCD at high energies

By studying the color structure of multiparticle production processes in p + A-type (dilute-dense) collisions, we find that higher-point functions beyond typical dipoles and quadrupoles, e.g., sex tupoles, octupoles, etc., naturally appear in the cross sections, but are explicitly suppressed in the large-N-c limit. We evaluate the sextupole in the McLerran-Venugopalan model and find that, in general, its analytical form cannot be written as combination of dipoles and quadrupoles. Within the color glass condensate framework, we present a proof that in the large-N-c limit, all multiparticle production processes in the collision of a dilute system off a dense system can, up to all orders in alpha(s), be described in terms of only dipoles and quadrupoles. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.87.034007