Searching for saturation in forward dijet production at the LHC

TL;DR

This paper reviews recent theoretical and phenomenological developments in forward dijet production at high-energy colliders, focusing on the ITMD framework and its comparison with other approaches.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of the ITMD approach, its Monte Carlo implementation, and compares it with other high-energy QCD frameworks.

Findings

ITMD successfully describes forward dijet data at the LHC.

Comparison shows ITMD's advantages over other models in certain kinematic regimes.

Unpublished phenomenological results offer new insights into small-x dynamics.

Abstract

We review recent results for forward jests at the LHC and EIC as obtained within small-x Improved Transverse Momentum Dependent factorization (ITMD). In addition to elementary overview of various approaches to perturbative QCD at high energy, including High Energy Factorization, Color Glass Condensate and ITMD, we describe the Monte Carlo implementation and discuss the existing and unpublished phenomenological results for forward dijets.