Inclusive and diffractive dijet photoproduction at the Electron-Ion Collider in NLO QCD

Abstract

In the framework of collinear factorization and next-to-leading order (NLO) perturbative QCD, we make predictions for inclusive and diffractive dijet photoproduction in electron-proton and electron-nucleus scattering in the EIC kinematics. We establish kinematic ranges in the pT , η, x obs A and x obs γ variables, quantify sensitivity to small-x nuclear PDFs, and analyze various scenarios of factorization breaking in the case of diffractive scattering.