Paving the Way Towards Precision Physics in Saturation Studies Through Exclusive Diffractive Light Neutral Vector Meson Production

R. Boussarie, A. V. Grabovsky, D. Yu. Ivanov +2

We perform the first next-to-leading order computation of the ${\gamma }^{(\ast )}\to V$ ($\rho ,\varphi ,\omega$) impact factor in the QCD shockwave approach and in the most general kinematics. This paves…