https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-022-10056-y
Letter
Evidence for the maximally entangled low x proton in Deep Inelastic Scattering from H1 data
1
Departamento de Actuaria, Física y Matemáticas, Universidad de las Americas Puebla, San Andrés Cholula, 72820, Puebla, Mexico
2
Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, ul. Radzikowskiego 152, 31-342, Kraków, Poland
Received:
24
October
2021
Accepted:
24
January
2022
Published online:
4
February
2022
We investigate the proposal by Kharzeev and Levin of a maximally entangled proton wave function in Deep Inelastic Scattering at low x and the proposed relation between parton number and final state hadron multiplicity. Contrary to the original formulation we determine partonic entropy from the sum of gluon and quark distribution functions at low x, which we obtain from an unintegrated gluon distribution subject to next-to-leading order Balitsky–Fadin–Kuraev–Lipatov evolution. We find for this framework very good agreement with H1 data. We furthermore provide a comparison based on NNPDF parton distribution functions at both next-to-next-to-leading order and next-to-next-to-leading with small x resummation, where the latter provides an acceptable description of data.
An erratum to this article is available online at https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-023-12343-8.
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