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In this paper we revisit the problem of the solution to Balitsky-Kovchegov equation deeply in the saturation domain. We find that solution has the form given in ref. [23] but it depends on variable \( \overline{z}= \ln \left({x}^2{Q}_s^2\right)+\mathrm{Const} \) and the value of Const is calculated in this paper. We propose the solution for full BFKL kernel at large \( \overline{z} \) in the entire kinematic region that satisfies the McLerran-Venugopalan-type [3–7] initial condition.
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Contreras, C., Levin, E. & Meneses, R. Non linear evolution: revisiting the solution in the saturation region. J. High Energ. Phys. 2014, 138 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2014)138
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