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Rapidity Evolution Of Wilson Lines At The Next-To-Leading Order, Ian Balitsky, Giovanni A. Chirilli
Rapidity Evolution Of Wilson Lines At The Next-To-Leading Order, Ian Balitsky, Giovanni A. Chirilli
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At high energies, particles move very fast, so the proper degrees of freedom for the fast gluons moving along the straight lines are Wilson-line operators—infinite gauge factors ordered along the line. In the framework of operator expansion in Wilson lines, the energy dependence of the amplitudes is determined by the rapidity evolution of Wilson lines. We present the next-to-leading order hierarchy of the evolution equations for Wilson-line operators.