Color Correlations in the Proton
Abstract
A general QCD light front formalism to compute many-body color charge correlation functions due to quarks in the proton was constructed~Dumitru:2018vpr. These enable new studies of color charge distributions in the nucleon. The analogies between such correlation functions to electric and magnetization charge densities in the proton and also to nucleon-nucleon correlations in the nucleus are discussed. Including the color charge correlations leads naturally to the removal of infrared divergences that occurs in two- and three-gluon exchange interactions in q q-proton scattering. Extensions to include gluonic color charge correlations are discussed.
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