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We study the rapidity evolution of gluon transverse momentum dependent distributions appearing in processes of particle production and show how this evolution changes from small to moderate Bjorken x.
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Balitsky, I., Tarasov, A. Gluon TMD in particle production from low to moderate x . J. High Energ. Phys. 2016, 164 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP06(2016)164
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