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20202026
most citedRelativistic corrections to the vector meson light front wave function

72 citations · 170 across the 27 of their papers we have counts for

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30 papers

hep-ph2026

One-point charge correlator as a probe for the odderon

Haotian Cao, Zhong-Bo Kang, Diego Padilla +1

We propose the one-point charge correlator (OPCC) in transversely polarized deep inelastic scattering as a new probe of the spin-dependent odderon. The OPCC is an infrared and coll…

hep-ph2026

Energy-Energy Correlators in -Tagged Jets in Collisions

João Barata, Zhong-Bo Kang, Xoán Mayo López +2

We present predictions for the collinear energy-energy correlator (EEC) measured inside -tagged jets in proton-proton collisions across the confinement transition. Our framework…

hep-ph2026

Saturation effects in diffractive deep inelastic scattering

Jani Penttala, Christophe Royon, Jarno Vierros

We study the production of and quarks in photon-induced processes as a probe of gluon saturation, with a focus on the high-energy region accessible in ultra-peripheral coll…

hep-ph2026

Matching collinear factorization with color-glass condensate for inclusive and exclusive deep inelastic scattering

Shohini Bhattacharya, Chuan-Qi He, Zhong-Bo Kang +2

Collinear factorization and color-glass condensate (CGC) effective field theory are generally treated as separate approaches for calculating scattering amplitudes, valid in differe…

hep-ph2026★ 1 cited

A numerical implementation of the NLO DIS structure functions in the dipole picture

Henri Hänninen, Heikki Mäntysaari, Jani Penttala

We present a numerical program that evaluates deep inelastic scattering (DIS) structure functions at next-to-leading order (NLO) accuracy in the dipole picture. In this numerical i…

hep-ph2026

One-point energy correlator for deep inelastic scattering at small

Zhong-Bo Kang, Robert Kao, Meijian Li +1

We derive the expressions for the one-point energy correlator (OPEC) in deep inelastic scattering in the high-energy (small-) limit within the Color Glass Condensate framework.…

hep-ph2025

Exploring nuclear modification using one-point energy correlator at the electron-ion collider

Yu Fu, Zhong-Bo Kang, Jani Penttala +1

We study the one-point energy correlator (OPEC) at both the back-to-back and collinear limits in electron-proton and electron-nucleus collisions. We provide the factorization forma…

hep-ph2025

Exploring rapidity regularization schemes at low with the DIS longitudinal structure function

Tolga Altinoluk, Guillaume Beuf, Jani Penttala

We propose three possible rapidity regulators for higher-order calculations in low QCD with gluon saturation, as alternatives to the usual lower cut-off for the integrals over…

hep-ph2025★ 2 cited

Determination of the initial condition for the Balitsky-Kovchegov equation with transformers

Meisen Gao, Zhong-Bo Kang, Jani Penttala +1

In the high-energy limit of QCD, scattering off nucleons and nuclei can be described in terms of Wilson-line correlators whose energy dependence is perturbative. The energy depende…

hep-ph2025

Diffractive deep inelastic scattering in the dipole picture: the contribution in exact kinematics

Abhiram Kaushik, Heikki Mäntysaari, Jani Penttala

We compute the contribution to the diffractive structure functions in high-energy deep inelastic scattering. The obtained result corresponds to a finite part of the nex…

hep-ph2025

Parton distributions in the shockwave formalism

Shohini Bhattacharya, Chuan-Qi He, Zhong-Bo Kang +2

In this work, we calculate a broad class of parton distributions - including parton distribution functions (PDFs), transverse-momentum-dependent distributions (TMDs), generalized p…

hep-ph2025

Color-glass condensate beyond the Gaussian approximation

Jani Penttala

In the high-energy limit, perturbative calculations in QCD are conveniently done using the dipole picture which factorizes the scattering amplitude into a perturbative part and the…

hep-ph2025

Probing the Sivers Asymmetry with Transverse Energy-Energy Correlators in the Small- Regime

Shohini Bhattacharya, Zhong-Bo Kang, Diego Padilla +1

We investigate transverse energy-energy correlators (TEECs) for both polarized and unpolarized targets in the small- regime at the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC). Focusing on the a…

hep-ph2025

Transverse Energy--Energy Correlators at Small for Photon--Hadron Production

Zhong-Bo Kang, Robert Kao, Meijian Li +1

We study the transverse energy--energy correlator (TEEC) observable in photon--hadron and photon--jet production in p+p and p+A collisions at small . We derive the relevant expr…

hep-ph2025

Forward dijet and vector meson production at the LHC

C. Royon, J. Penttala

We first describe the predictions concerning jet production in the very forward region, especially in the FOCAL kinematic region of the ALICE collaboration at CERN as a test of sat…

hep-ph2024

Determination of the strong coupling constant and the Collins-Soper kernel from the energy-energy correlator in collisions

Zhong-Bo Kang, Jani Penttala, Congyue Zhang

We have conducted the first simultaneous global fit of the strong coupling constant and the Collins-Soper (CS) kernel using the energy-energy correlators (EEC) of $e^{+} e^{-…

hep-ph2024★ 11 cited

Gluon Saturation Effects in Exclusive Heavy Vector Meson Photoproduction

Jani Penttala, Christophe Royon

We study exclusive and photoproduction for proton and Pb targets in the high-energy limit, with the energy dependence computed using the linear Balitsky-Fadin-Kuraev-Lipa…

hep-ph2024★ 16 cited

Finite-size effects on small- evolution and saturation in proton and nuclear targets

Heikki Mäntysaari, Jani Penttala, Farid Salazar +1

Within the Color Glass Condensate effective field theory, we assess the importance of including a finite size for the target on observables sensitive to small- evolution. To thi…

hep-ph2024★ 15 cited

Energy-Energy Correlator for jet production in and collisions

João Barata, Zhong-Bo Kang, Xoán Mayo López +1

In this Letter, we study the collinear limit of the Energy-Energy Correlator (EEC) in single-inclusive jet production in proton-proton () and proton-nucleus () collisions.…

hep-ph2024★ 2 cited

Transverse Energy-Energy Correlator for Vector Boson-Tagged Hadron Production in and collisions

Zhong-Bo Kang, Sookhyun Lee, Jani Penttala +2

We investigate the transverse energy-energy correlator (TEEC) event-shape observable for back-to-back and production in both and collisions. Our study inco…

hep-ph2024

Diffractive deep inelastic scattering at NLO in the dipole picture

Guillaume Beuf, Tuomas Lappi, Heikki Mäntysaari +2

We compute the transverse and longitudinal diffractive structure functions to full next-to-leading order accuracy in the dipole picture of deep inelastic scattering. Our calculatio…

hep-ph2023★ 11 cited

Transverse Energy-Energy Correlators in the Color-Glass Condensate at the Electron-Ion Collider

Zhong-Bo Kang, Jani Penttala, Fanyi Zhao +1

We investigate the transverse energy-energy correlators (TEEC) in the small- regime at the upcoming Electron-Ion Collider (EIC). Focusing on the back-to-back production of elect…

hep-ph2023

Diffractive Processes at Next-to-Leading Order in the Dipole Picture

Jani Penttala

In this thesis, we calculate diffractive processes at next-to-leading order (NLO) in the high-energy limit, with an emphasis on exclusive vector meson production and inclusive diff…

hep-ph2023

Proton structure functions in the dipole picture at next-to-leading order

Henri Hänninen, Heikki Mäntysaari, Risto Paatelainen +1

We predict heavy quark production cross sections in Deep Inelastic Scattering at high energy by applying the CGC effective theory. We demonstrate that when the calculation is perfo…