{"total":15,"items":[{"citing_arxiv_id":"2606.31712","ref_index":9,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.98,"is_internal_anchor":true,"paper_title":"Collinearly Improved Balitsky-Kovchegov Evolution of the Gluon Wigner Distribution","primary_cat":"hep-ph","submitted_at":"2026-06-30T14:18:06+00:00","verdict":"UNVERDICTED","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":5.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"Collinearly improved BK evolution shifts the elliptic node position and alters the rapidity and hard-scale dependence of the coherent dijet cos2φ signal rather than producing a simple normalization change.","context_count":0,"top_context_role":null,"top_context_polarity":null,"context_text":null},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2606.31708","ref_index":31,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.98,"is_internal_anchor":true,"paper_title":"Energy-Flow Moments for Elliptic Gluon Wigner Tomography","primary_cat":"hep-ph","submitted_at":"2026-06-30T14:15:06+00:00","verdict":"UNVERDICTED","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":7.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"The normalized cos2φ moment of energy flow in DIS dijet production provides a linear projection of the elliptic gluon Wigner harmonic after kinematic subtraction within leading-power small-x factorization.","context_count":0,"top_context_role":null,"top_context_polarity":null,"context_text":null},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2606.08830","ref_index":1,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.98,"is_internal_anchor":true,"paper_title":"Nuclear parton distributions and nuclear shadowing","primary_cat":"hep-ph","submitted_at":"2026-06-07T20:50:47+00:00","verdict":"UNVERDICTED","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":2.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"A review summarizing experimental evidence, theoretical models of nuclear shadowing, model-agnostic nuclear PDF extractions, and prospects for LHC and EIC studies.","context_count":1,"top_context_role":"background","top_context_polarity":"background","context_text":"consists of a quark-field operators ψq and its conjugate, a Dirac gamma matrix γ+, and a Wilson line W over a light-like distance z. For understanding how these factors come into play and for the definition of the gluon PDF, we refer the reader to the textbook by Collins (2011) and the corresponding chapter in this Encyclopedia. 2.1 Connecting the parton distributions of nuclear and nucleonic degrees of freedom The function f A i (xA,Q 2) above depends on the fraction xA ∈ [0, 1] of the total momentum PA carried by the entire nucleus. It turns out to be useful to describe the nuclear PDFs in terms of a scaled variable xN = AxA ∈ [0,A ] (where the subscript N is often dropped for brevity), which now refers to a fraction of theaverage nucleon momentum PA/A carried by the parton. In fact, nuclear PDFs are typically given in terms ofx N distributions"},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2605.28747","ref_index":5,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.98,"is_internal_anchor":true,"paper_title":"Maximum phase-space density of linearly polarized gluon TMDs in the saturation region","primary_cat":"hep-ph","submitted_at":"2026-05-27T17:02:42+00:00","verdict":"UNVERDICTED","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":5.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"Computes maximum phase-space density of linearly polarized gluon TMD h1^⊥g as ~2 α_s^{-3/2} (dipole) in saturation using Mueller occupancy and prior WW/dipole distributions, with numerical Collins-Soper study.","context_count":0,"top_context_role":null,"top_context_polarity":null,"context_text":null},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2605.15494","ref_index":8,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.98,"is_internal_anchor":true,"paper_title":"Forward hadron production in pp collisions at LHC energies from an event generator based on the color glass condensate framework","primary_cat":"hep-ph","submitted_at":"2026-05-15T00:19:14+00:00","verdict":"UNVERDICTED","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":4.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"MC-CGC simulations with rcBK evolution favor HERA-tuned MV^γ and MV^e initial conditions for LHCb forward hadron data, show kT factorization outperforming DHJ at mid-rapidity, and provide predictions for ALICE FoCal neutral mesons and jets.","context_count":0,"top_context_role":null,"top_context_polarity":null,"context_text":null},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2605.14092","ref_index":2,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.98,"is_internal_anchor":true,"paper_title":"Matching collinear factorization with color-glass condensate for inclusive and exclusive deep inelastic scattering","primary_cat":"hep-ph","submitted_at":"2026-05-13T20:21:01+00:00","verdict":"ACCEPT","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":7.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"Collinear factorization amplitudes exactly reproduce the large-Q² expansion of CGC amplitudes for inclusive DIS, DVCS, and DVMP at the amplitude level.","context_count":0,"top_context_role":null,"top_context_polarity":null,"context_text":null},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2605.10413","ref_index":79,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.9,"is_internal_anchor":false,"paper_title":"Light-front Hamiltonian jet evolution in the Glasma","primary_cat":"hep-ph","submitted_at":"2026-05-11T11:51:42+00:00","verdict":"UNVERDICTED","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":7.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"A light-front Hamiltonian method evolves a quark through Glasma fields to obtain transverse momentum broadening and jet quenching consistent with classical scaling in saturation momentum.","context_count":1,"top_context_role":"background","top_context_polarity":"background","context_text":"Vienna, Tech. 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Initially, the nuclei experience extreme rela- tivistic length contraction which compresses them into two-dimensional sheets of energy den- sity. In the earliest moments of the collision, the system undergoes extreme non-equilibrium dynamics; this phase remains the subject of active research [68, 69, 70, 71, 72]. By approx- imatelyO(1 fm/c), the medium reaches a near-equilibrium thermalized state that serves as the initial condition for subsequent evolution via relativistic viscous hydrodynamics [35, 36]. This fluid-like behavior persists through the confinement phase transition from a QGP into a hadron resonance gas (HRG), a gas of hadrons and hadronic resonance states."},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2605.01527","ref_index":8,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.9,"is_internal_anchor":false,"paper_title":"Probing Saturation Effect in Heavy Meson Pair Correlation in Forward $pA$ Collisions","primary_cat":"hep-ph","submitted_at":"2026-05-02T16:39:25+00:00","verdict":"UNVERDICTED","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":5.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"Heavy meson pair correlations in forward pA collisions are computed in the CGC framework with Sudakov resummation, reproducing LHCb data and showing a mass hierarchy in R_pA that strengthens at higher rapidity.","context_count":1,"top_context_role":"background","top_context_polarity":"background","context_text":"shows comparisons between theoretical predictions and LHCb data for the self-normalizedA T distribution of the J/ψmeson pair decaying fromb ¯bpair [86] in forwardpp collisions. The result forp J/ψ i >7 GeV is very similar to that forp J/ψ i >5 GeV. Our numerical calculations pro- vide a good description of the LHCb experimental data in both cases. 1 1.5 2 2.5 √s = 5.36 TeV,Q2 s0,A= 5Q2 s0,p pi = [8, 15] GeV, yi = 4.5 (a) 1 σ dσ d∆ϕ pp D ¯D B ¯B pPb D ¯D B ¯B 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9 3 3.10.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 (b) ∆ϕ RpA(∆ϕ) D ¯D B ¯B 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9 3 3.1 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8 (c) √s = 5.36 TeV pi = [8,15] GeV, Q2 s0,A= 5Q2 s0,p ∆ϕ RpA(∆ϕ) yi = 2.5 D ¯D B ¯B yi = 3.5 D ¯D B ¯B yi = 4.5 D ¯D B ¯B FIG. 6. Upper panel: Predictions of the normalized ∆ϕ distributions ofD ¯DandB ¯Bpairs in very forwardppand"},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2605.00454","ref_index":15,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.9,"is_internal_anchor":false,"paper_title":"Nuclear structure and saturation effects from diffractive vector meson production","primary_cat":"hep-ph","submitted_at":"2026-05-01T06:40:44+00:00","verdict":"UNVERDICTED","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":4.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"Predictions for vector meson production in light-nucleus UPCs show t-differential observables sensitive to nuclear structure models and saturation suppression that grows with nuclear mass and collision energy.","context_count":1,"top_context_role":"background","top_context_polarity":"background","context_text":"we quantify to what extent future diffractive J/ψpro- duction measurements can probe details of the neon and oxygen shape at small momentum fractionx. Light-ion collisions also provide a unique opportu- nity to study the transition from a dilute regime to the dense, saturated state of nuclear matter predicted by the Color Glass Condensate (CGC) effective theory of QCD [15]. CGC calculations typically predict that arXiv:2605.00454v1 [hep-ph] 1 May 2026 2 the squared nuclear saturation scale scales approximately withA 1/3 (with a proportionality constant smaller than unity; see, e.g., [16]). Recent LHC measurements of J/ψphotoproduction off lead nuclei have shown indica- tions of strong saturation effects, as discussed, for exam-"},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2604.24629","ref_index":49,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.9,"is_internal_anchor":false,"paper_title":"On the Two $R$-Factors in the Small-$x$ Shockwave Formalism","primary_cat":"hep-ph","submitted_at":"2026-04-27T15:56:02+00:00","verdict":"UNVERDICTED","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":5.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"Replacing the rapidity argument of the dipole amplitude with ln min{1/|x|, 1/|ξ|} and refining initial conditions for non-linear evolution can eliminate two R-factors in small-x shockwave calculations.","context_count":1,"top_context_role":"background","top_context_polarity":"background","context_text":"[46] Y. Hatta and J. Zhou,Small-xevolution of the gluon GPDE g,Phys. Rev. Lett.129(2022) 252002, [2207.03378]. [47] S. Bhattacharya, C.-Q. He, Z.-B. Kang, D. Padilla and J. 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Consequently, up- coming high-precision nuclear deep inelastic scattering (DIS) measurements at the electron-ion collider (EIC) [2] provide a powerful probe of the saturated regime of the nuclear wave function. At high energy, DIS can be described in the dipole picture [3], where, at leading order, the incoming virtual photon fluctuates into a quark-antiquark dipole. The dipole interacts eikonally with the gluon-dense target as described within the CGC framework. The time scale difference between theγ ∗ →q¯qsplitting and the dipole- target interaction allows for a factorization of the to- tal DIS cross section into a process-dependent hard fac-"},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2604.08520","ref_index":16,"ref_count":1,"confidence":0.9,"is_internal_anchor":false,"paper_title":"Kinetic and canonical momentum broadening in the Glasma","primary_cat":"hep-ph","submitted_at":"2026-04-09T17:56:07+00:00","verdict":"UNVERDICTED","verdict_confidence":"LOW","novelty_score":6.0,"formal_verification":"none","one_line_summary":"Derives gauge-invariant equations of motion for kinetic and canonical momentum of particles in a classical non-Abelian background, finding that transverse fields contribute to kinetic momentum broadening even in the eikonal limit, and shows that an initial transverse Coulomb gauge reduces numerical ","context_count":1,"top_context_role":"background","top_context_polarity":"background","context_text":"A65, 689 (1970). [13] M. Ruggieri and S. K. 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