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PHYSICAL REVIEW D
Volume 99, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.99.054032
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- U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Nuclear Physics [DE-SC0004286, DE-AC52-06NA25396]
- U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science under the DOE Early Career Program
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We rederive the small-x evolution equations governing quark helicity distribution in a proton using solely an operator-based approach. In our previous works on the subject, the evolution equations were derived using a mix of diagrammatic and operator-based methods. In this work, we rederive the double-logarithmic small-x evolution equations for quark helicity in terms of the polarized Wilson lines, the operators consisting of light-cone Wilson lines with one or two noneikonal local operator insertions which bring in helicity dependence. For the first time we give explicit and complete expressions for the quark and gluon polarized Wilson line operators, including insertions of both the gluon and quark subeikonal operators. We show that the double-logarithmic small-x evolution of the polarized dipole amplitude operators, made out of regular light-cone Wilson lines along with the polarized ones constructed here, reproduces the equations derived in our earlier works. The method we present here can be used as a template for determining the small-x asymptotics of any transverse momentum-dependent (TMD) quark (or gluon) parton distribution functions (PDFs), and is not limited to helicity.
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