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Scheme Transformations in Non-Linear QCD Evolution: Towards a Stable NLO BK Equation

  • Renaud Boussarie
  • Paul Caucal
  • Piotr Korcyl
  • Yacine Mehtar-Tani
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Abstract

High-energy QCD evolution at NLO suffers from large collinear logarithms that make the perturbative expansion of the Balitsky-Kovchegov (BK) equation unstable. We develop a systematic scheme-transformation framework using the Doi-Peliti formalism to relate projectile (k+) and target (k-) factorization schemes. The transformation of high-energy operators and the evolution kernel generates NLO terms that cancel the problematic double collinear logarithm. The resulting NLO BK equation is free of this instability, with only single collinear and double anti-collinear enhancements remaining. Numerical solutions show stable evolution up to Y=10 for both Golec-Biernat-Wusthoff and McLerran-Venugopalan initial conditions, providing a consistent path toward combining stable NLO evolution with rotated NLO impact factors.

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@misc{boussarie2026scheme,
  title = {{Scheme Transformations in Non-Linear QCD Evolution: Towards a Stable NLO BK Equation}},
  author = {Renaud Boussarie and Paul Caucal and Piotr Korcyl and Yacine Mehtar-Tani},
  howpublished = {arXiv},
  year = {2026},
  month = sep,
  doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.33821},
  eprint = {2609.33821},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.33821},
  note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
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TY  - UNPB
TI  - Scheme Transformations in Non-Linear QCD Evolution: Towards a Stable NLO BK Equation
AU  - Renaud Boussarie
AU  - Paul Caucal
AU  - Piotr Korcyl
AU  - Yacine Mehtar-Tani
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/09/27
PB  - arXiv
DO  - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.33821
UR  - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.33821
AB  - High-energy QCD evolution at NLO suffers from large collinear logarithms that make the perturbative expansion of the Balitsky-Kovchegov (BK) equation unstable. We develop a systematic scheme-transformation framework using the Doi-Peliti formalism to relate projectile (k^+) and target (k^-) factorization schemes. The transformation of high-energy operators and the evolution kernel generates NLO terms that cancel the problematic double collinear logarithm. The resulting NLO BK equation is free of this instability, with only single collinear and double anti-collinear enhancements remaining. Numerical solutions show stable evolution up to Y=10 for both Golec-Biernat-Wusthoff and McLerran-Venugopalan initial conditions, providing a consistent path toward combining stable NLO evolution with rotated NLO impact factors.
ER  -