Probing Gluon Bose Correlations in Nuclear Wave Function in Deep Inelastic Scattering

Abstract

We extend the results of [Phys.Rev.Lett. 128 (2022) 18], where we argued that in the controlled environment of the Deep Inelastic Scattering experiments, Bose-Einstein correlation between gluons in a hadronic wave function can be accessed through the production of the diffractive dijet plus a third jet. In this observable, Bose-Einstein correlation causes the enhancement of the production cross sections at the zero relative angle between the transverse momentum imbalance of the photon-going dijet and the transverse momentum of the gluon jet, when the magnitude of the momentum imbalance is about the same as the magnitude of the produced gluon. In the present paper, we account for multiple scattering and non-linear effect in the target wave function. Although our equations can be applied to any high-energy DIS kinematics, to make them tractable numerically, we consider the high-momentum limit (momentum larger than $Q_s$) for the total momentum of the dijet, momentum imbalance, and the momentum of the produced gluon. By performing explicit numerical calculations, we confirm that the signal is present after accounting for multiple scattering.