Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2005-03-18
JHEP 0507 (2005) 062
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
10.1088/1126-6708/2005/07/062
Important corrections to BFKL evolution are obtained from non-leading contributions and from non-linear effects due to unitarisation or saturation. It has been difficult 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 F2 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.
Avsar Emil
Gustafson Gösta
Lonnblad Leif
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