Next-to-leading order Balitsky-Kovchegov equation beyond large <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mml:mrow><mml:msub><mml:mrow><mml:mi>N</mml:mi></mml:mrow><mml:mrow><mml:mi>c</mml:mi></mml:mrow></mml:msub></mml:mrow></mml:math>
T. Lappi, Heikki Mäntysaari, Andrecia Ramnath
Abstract
The authors compute next to leading order corrections for the correlator of two Wilson lines at high energy (the Balitsky-Kovchegov equation) for a finite number of colors, ${N}_{c}$. They show that the corrections, expected to be $1/{N}_{c}^{2}$, are truly small, ~ $5$%.
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