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We present general formulae to compute Wilson line correlators with the Color Glass Condensate described by the McLerran-Venugopalan model. We explicitly construct a complete and non-orthogonal set of color-singlet bases and write matrix elements down, so that the exponential of the matrix leads to the Wilson line correlators. We further develop a systematic perturbative expansion of dipole Wilson line correlators in terms of 1/Nc where Nc is the color number. As a phenomenological application we calculate the flow harmonics vn{m} in the dipole model and discuss the Nc scaling.
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Fukushima, K., Hidaka, Y. General formulae for dipole Wilson line correlators with the Color Glass Condensate. J. High Energ. Phys. 2017, 114 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP11(2017)114
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