Non-global jet evolution at finite Nc
Abstract
Resummations of soft gluon emissions play an important role in many applications of QCD, among them jet observables and small x saturation effects. Banfi, Marchesini, and Smye have derived an evolution equation for non-global jet observables that exhibits a remarkable analogy with the BK equation used in the small x context. Here, this analogy is used to generalize the former beyond the leading Nc approximation. The result shows striking analogy with the JIMWLK equation describing the small x evolution of the color glass condensate. A Langevin description allows numerical implementation and provides clues for the formulation of closed forms for amplitudes at finite Nc. The proof of the new equation is based on these amplitudes with ordered soft emission. It is fully independent of the derivation of the JIMWLK equation and thus sheds new light also on this topic.
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