Sudakov resummation in the small-x saturation formalism

Phys Rev Lett. 2013 Feb 22;110(8):082301. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.082301. Epub 2013 Feb 20.

Abstract

Through an explicit calculation of massive scalar particle (e.g., Higgs boson) production in high energy pA collisions up to one-loop order, we demonstrate, for the first time, that the Sudakov-type logarithms in hard processes in the small-x saturation formalism can be systematically separated from the small-x logarithms. The generic feature of the Sudakov logarithms and all order resummation is derived. This calculation shall provide us deep insights into the understanding of factorizations in the saturation formalism. We further comment on the phenomenological implications in the LHC energy regime and extension to other hard processes in small-x calculations.