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hep-ph2026

Diffractive structure functions from JIMWLK evolution

Tuomas Lappi, Heikki Mäntysaari, Pyry Runko

We compute diffractive structure functions from Wilson line configurations whose energy evolution is given by the JIMWLK equation. We use a JIMWLK evolution setup that has already…

hep-ph2026

Confronting Color Glass Condensate at next-to-leading order with HERA data

Carlisle Casuga, Heikki Mäntysaari

We perform a global analysis of HERA total inclusive cross section and charm quark production data to extract the non-perturbative initial condition for the next-to-leading order B…

hep-ph2026★ 1 cited

The DIS dipole picture cross section at finite energy

Magnus Bertilsson, Tuomas Lappi, Heikki Mäntysaari +1

We implement a finite energy constraint in the dipole picture of deep inelastic scattering, by restricting the invariant mass of the produced partonic system by the virtual photon-…

hep-ph2025

Bayesian constraint of the initial condition for the Balitsky-Kovchegov equation at NLO

Carlisle Casuga, Henri Hänninen, Heikki Mäntysaari

We use Bayesian inference to constrain the parameters describing the initial amplitude input to the Balitsky-Kovchegov evolution equation at next-to-leading order accuracy against…

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

Exclusive production off a dilute proton within a refined hotspot description

Heikki Mäntysaari, Anh Dung Le

We revisit the calculation of exclusive production in electron-proton scattering within the QCD dipole model, employing a refined description of the proton in terms…

hep-ph2025★ 9 cited

Global Bayesian Analysis of Photoproduction on Proton and Lead Targets

Heikki Mäntysaari, Hendrik Roch, Farid Salazar +3

We perform a global Bayesian analysis of diffractive production in and collisions using a color glass condensate (CGC) based calculation framew…

hep-ph2025★ 7 cited

Initial condition for the Balitsky-Kovchegov equation at next-to-leading order

Carlisle Casuga, Henri Hänninen, Heikki Mäntysaari

We determine the initial condition of the Balitsky-Kovchegov evolution equation at next-to-leading order (NLO) accuracy using HERA deep inelastic scattering data. Posterior distrib…

hep-ph2025

Nucleon Energy Correlators for the Odderon

Heikki Mäntysaari, Yossathorn Tawabutr, Xuan-Bo Tong

We investigate the T-odd nucleon energy correlator (NEC) at small and establish its connection with the spin-dependent odderon. Probing the T-odd NEC involves measuring a singl…

hep-ph2025

Inclusive photoproduction in ultraperipheral collisions

Patricia Gimeno-Estivill, Tuomas Lappi, Heikki Mäntysaari

We compute the differential cross section for inclusive production in ultraperipheral collisions within the Color Glass Condensate framework. Our predictions are fou…

hep-ph2024

Inclusive production in forward proton-proton and proton-lead collisions at high energy

Patricia Gimeno-Estivill, Tuomas Lappi, Heikki Mäntysaari

We calculate the cross section for forward production in proton-proton and minimum bias proton-lead collisions using the Color Glass Condensate (CGC) and Non-Relativ…

hep-ph2023

Coherently diffractive dissociation in electron-hadron collisions: from HERA to the future EIC

Tuomas Lappi, Anh Dung Le, Heikki Mäntysaari

We present numerical results on diffractive dissociation with large invariant mass diffractive final states in the scattering of an electron off a hadron. The diffractive large-mas…

hep-ph2023

Diffractive Deep Inelastic Scattering in the Dipole Picture at Next-to-Leading Order

G. Beuf, H. Hänninen, T. Lappi +2

We calculate the contribution from the state production to the diffractive cross sections in deep inelastic scattering at high energy. The obtained cross section is fi…

hep-ph2023

Single-Inclusive Particle Production from Collision at Next-to-Leading Order

Heikki Mäntysaari, Yossathorn Tawabutr

We present the first fully consistent NLO calculation of the single-inclusive forward hadron production in proton-nucleus (pA) collisions under the color glass condensate (CGC) fra…

hep-ph2023

Collider physics with no PDFs

Tuomas Lappi, Heikki Mäntysaari, Hannu Paukkunen +1

Measurements of Deep Inelastic Scattering (DIS) provide a powerful tool to probe the fundamental structure of protons and other nuclei. The DIS cross sections can be expressed in t…

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…

hep-ph2023★ 14 cited

The case for an EIC Theory Alliance: Theoretical Challenges of the EIC

Raktim Abir, Igor Akushevich, Tolga Altinoluk +167

We outline the physics opportunities provided by the Electron Ion Collider (EIC). These include the study of the parton structure of the nucleon and nuclei, the onset of gluon satu…

hep-ph2021

Higher-order corrections to exclusive heavy vector meson production

Tuomas Lappi, Heikki Mäntysaari, Jani Penttala

We present results for higher-order corrections to exclusive production. This includes the first relativistic correction of order in quark velocity, and next-t…

hep-ph2021

Azimuthal correlations in diffractive scattering at the Electron-Ion Collider

Adrian Dumitru, Heikki Mäntysaari, Risto Paatelainen +3

We calculate azimuthal correlations between the exclusively produced vector meson and the scattered electron in Deep Inelastic Scattering processes at the future Electron-Ion Colli…

hep-ph2021

Impact parameter dependence of color charge correlations in the proton

Adrian Dumitru, Heikki Mäntysaari, Risto Paatelainen

The impact parameter dependence of color charge correlators in the proton is obtained from the light front formalism in light cone gauge. We include NLO corrections due to the $|qq…

hep-ph2021★ 37 cited

Color charge correlations in the proton at NLO: beyond geometry based intuition

Adrian Dumitru, Heikki Mäntysaari, Risto Paatelainen

Color charge correlators provide fundamental information about the proton structure. In this Letter, we evaluate numerically two-point color charge correlations in a proton on the…

hep-ph2020

Electron-Ion Collisions at the LHeC and FCC-he

Heikki Mäntysaari

The LHeC and the FCC-he will open a new realm in our understanding of nuclear structure and the dynamics in processes involving nuclei, in an unexplored kinematic domain. We review…

hep-ph2020★ 6 cited

New opportunities at the photon energy frontier

Jaroslav Adam, Christine Aidala, Aaron Angerami +72

Ultra-peripheral collisions (UPCs) involving heavy ions and protons are the energy frontier for photon-mediated interactions. UPC photons can be used for many purposes, including p…

hep-ph2019

Diffractive dijet production from the Color Glass Condensate and the small- gluon distributions

Heikki Mäntysaari, Niklas Mueller, Björn Schenke

We study exclusive dijet production in electron-proton deep inelastic scattering at a future Electron Ion Collider. We predict the elliptic modulation of the cross section as a fun…