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Energy conservation and saturation in small-x evolution

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Summary, in English

Important corrections to BFKL evolution are obtained from non-leading contributions and from non-linear effects due to unitarisation or saturation. It has been diffcult to estimate the relative importance of these effects, as NLO effects are most easily accounted for in momentum space while unitarisation and saturation are easier in transverse coordinate space. An essential component of the NLO contributions is due to energy conservation effects, and in this paper we present a model for implementing such effects together with saturation in Mueller's dipole evolution formalism. We find that energy conservation severely dampens the small-x rise of the gluon density and, as a consequence, the onset of saturation is delayed. Using a simple model for the proton we obtain a reasonable qualitative description of the x-dependence of F-2 at low Q(2) as measured at HERA even without saturation effects. We also give qualitative descriptions of the energy dependence of the cross section for gamma*gamma* and gamma*-nucleus scattering.

Publishing year

2005

Language

English

Publication/Series

Journal of High Energy Physics

Issue

7

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Springer

Topic

  • Subatomic Physics

Keywords

  • phenomenological models
  • jets
  • QCD
  • parton model

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1029-8479