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We construct a generalization of the JIMWLK Hamiltonian, going beyond the eikonal approximation, which governs the high-energy evolution of the scattering between a dilute projectile and a dense target with an arbitrary longitudinal extent (a nucleus, or a slice of quark-gluon plasma). Different physical regimes refer to the ratio L/τ between the longitudinal size L of the target and the lifetime τ of the gluon fluctuations. When L/τ ≪1, meaning that the target can be effectively treated as a shockwave, we recover the JIMWLK Hamiltonian, as expected. When L/τ ≫1, meaning that the fluctuations live inside the target, the new Hamiltonian governs phenomena like transverse momentum broadening and radiative energy loss, which accompany the propagation of an energetic parton through a dense QCD medium. Using this Hamiltonian, we derive a non-linear equation for the dipole amplitude (a generalization of the BK equation), which describes the high-energy evolution of jet quenching. As compared to the original BK-JIMWLK evolution, the new evolution is remarkably different: the plasma saturation momentum evolves much faster with increasing energy (or decreasing Bjorken’s x) than the corresponding scale for a shockwave. This widely opens the transverse phase-space for the evolution in the vicinity of the saturation line and implies the existence of large radiative corrections, enhanced by the double logarithm ln2(LT ), with T the temperature of the medium. This confirms from a wider perspective a recent result by Liou, Mueller, and Wu (arXiv:1304.7677). The dominant, double-logarithmic, corrections to the dipole amplitude are smooth enough to be absorbed into a renormalization of the jet quenching parameter \( \widehat{q} \). This renormalization is universal: it applies to all the phenomena, like the transverse momentum broadening or the radiative energy loss, which can be computed from the dipole amplitude.
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Iancu, E. The non-linear evolution of jet quenching. J. High Energ. Phys. 2014, 95 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2014)095
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