Measuring Color Memory in a Color Glass Condensate at Electron-Ion Colliders

TL;DR

This paper proposes measuring the non-abelian color memory effect, analogous to gravitational memory, through color radiation-induced SU(3) rotations in deep inelastic scattering at electron-ion colliders.

Contribution

It introduces a novel method to observe the color memory effect in a high-energy collider setting, linking gauge theory phenomena with experimental measurement.

Findings

Theoretical proposal for measuring color memory effect.

Connection between gauge theory memory and collider experiments.

Potential to observe non-abelian gauge phenomena experimentally.

Abstract

The color memory effect is the non-abelian gauge theory analog of the gravitational memory effect, in which the passage of color radiation induces a net relative SU(3) color rotation of a pair of nearby quarks. It is proposed that this effect can be measured in the Regge limit of deeply inelastic scattering at electron-ion colliders.