Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2007-03-28
Phys.Rev.D75:114009,2007
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
52 pages, 7 figures; three lines added in section V, two lines added in section VII, references added for section I and V
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.75.114009
We investigate the unpolarized virtual photon structure functions $F_2^gamma(x,Q^2,P^2)$ and $F_L^gamma(x,Q^2,P^2)$ in perturbative QCD for the kinematical region $Lambda^2 ll P^2 ll Q^2$, where $-Q^2(-P^2)$ is the mass squared of the probe (target) photon and $Lambda$ is the QCD scale parameter. Using the framework of the operator product expansion supplemented by the renormalization group method, we derive the definite predictions for the moments of $F_2^gamma(x,Q^2,P^2)$ up to the next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) (the order $alphaalpha_s$) and for the moments of $F_L^gamma(x,Q^2,P^2)$ up to the next-to-leading order (NLO) (the order $alphaalpha_s$). The NNLO corrections to the sum rule of $F_2^gamma(x,Q^2,P^2)$ are negative and found to be $7% sim10%$ of the sum of the LO and NLO contributions, when $P^2=1 {rm GeV}^2$ and $Q^2=30sim 100 {rm GeV}^2$ or $P^2=3 {rm GeV}^2$ and $Q^2=100 {rm GeV}^2$, and the number of active quark flavors $n_f$ is three or four. The NLO corrections to $F_L^gamma$ are also negative. The moments are inverted numerically to obtain the predictions for $F_2^gamma(x,Q^2,P^2)$ and $F_L^gamma(x,Q^2,P^2)$ as functions of $x$.
Sasaki Kaori
Ueda Takahiro
Uematsu Tsuneo
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