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Small-$x$ Asymptotics of the Gluon Helicity Distribution

Elizabeth Howarth et al.Jun 13, 2017
We determine the small-$x$ asymptotics of the gluon helicity distribution ina proton at leading order in perturbative QCD at large $N_c$. To achieve this,we begin by evaluating the dipole gluon helicity TMD at small $x$. In theprocess we obtain an interesting new result: in contrast to the unpolarizeddipole gluon TMD case, the operator governing the small-$x$ behavior of thedipole gluon helicity TMD is different from the operator corresponding to thepolarized dipole scattering amplitude (used in our previous work to determinethe small-$x$ asymptotics of the quark helicity distribution). We thenconstruct and solve novel small-$x$ large-$N_c$ evolution equations for theoperator related to the dipole gluon helicity TMD. Our main result is thesmall-$x$ asymptotics for the gluon helicity distribution: $\Delta G \sim\left( \tfrac{1}{x} \right)^{\alpha_h^G}$ with $\alpha_h^G = \tfrac{13}{4\sqrt{3}} \, \sqrt{\tfrac{\alpha_s \, N_c}{2 \pi}} \approx 1.88 \,\sqrt{\tfrac{\alpha_s \, N_c}{2 \pi}}$. We note that the power $\alpha_h^G$ isapproximately 20$\%$ lower than the corresponding power $\alpha_h^q$ for thesmall-$x$ asymptotics of the quark helicity distribution defined by $\Delta q\sim \left( \tfrac{1}{x} \right)^{\alpha_h^q}$ with $\alpha_h^q =\tfrac{4}{\sqrt{3}} \, \sqrt{\tfrac{\alpha_s \, N_c}{2 \pi}} \approx 2.31 \,\sqrt{\tfrac{\alpha_s \, N_c}{2 \pi}}$ found in our earlier work.