Diffractive production of jets at high-energy in the QCD shock-wave approach

TL;DR

This paper advances the theoretical understanding of jet production in high-energy QCD by calculating impact factors for photon-induced transitions using the shock-wave formalism, aiming to improve phenomenological models.

Contribution

It extends existing calculations of impact factors beyond previous approximations, including real and virtual contributions for photon to quark, antiquark, and gluon transitions.

Findings

Calculated real contributions for photon to quark, antiquark, and gluon transitions.

Reported progress on virtual contribution calculations.

Provides a framework for future phenomenological applications.

Abstract

In view of future phenomenological applications, we study the impact factor for the photon to quark, antiquark and gluon transition within Balitsky's shock-wave formalism. The aim of the present program is to extend existing results beyond approximations discussed in the literature. We present our results of the real contribution, and report on recent progress in calculating the virtual contributions for the photon to quark, antiquark transition.