After Q_s-adaptive coarse graining, conditional gluon Husimi momentum distributions from fixed-coupling SO(3)-BK evolution collapse as functions of k/Q_s(Y,b), with conditional entropy growing at unit slope versus ⟨ln Q_s²⟩.
Geometric Scaling above the Saturation Scale
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We show that the evolution equations in QCD predict geometric scaling for quark and gluon distribution functions in a large kinematical window, which extends above the saturation scale up to momenta $Q^2$ of order $100 {\rm GeV}^2$. For $Q^2 < Q^2_s$, with $Q_s$ the saturation momentum, this is the scaling predicted by the Colour Glass Condensate and by phenomenological saturation models. For $1 \simle \ln(Q^2/Q_s^2) \ll \ln(Q_s^2/\Lambda^2_{\rm QCD})$, we show that the solution to the BFKL equation shows approximate scaling, with the scale set by $Q_s$. At larger $Q^2$, this solution does not scale any longer. We argue that for the intermediate values of $Q^2$ where we find scaling, the BFKL rather than the double logarithmic approximation to the DGLAP equation properly describes the dynamics. We consider both fixed and running couplings, with the scale for running set by the saturation momentum. The anomalous dimension which characterizes the approach of the gluon distribution function towards saturation is found to be close to, but lower than, one half.
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Emergent Local Phase-Space Scaling in Small-x Gluon Evolution
After Q_s-adaptive coarse graining, conditional gluon Husimi momentum distributions from fixed-coupling SO(3)-BK evolution collapse as functions of k/Q_s(Y,b), with conditional entropy growing at unit slope versus ⟨ln Q_s²⟩.
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Radial-flow fluctuations in the geometrical-scaling framework
Geometrical scaling implies radial-flow fluctuations arise from saturation-momentum fluctuations, yielding a natural single-mode ansatz and the proposed diagnostic A0(N_Δy) via string percolation.