Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2008-01-07
Phys.Rev.D77:054019,2008
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
24 pages, LaTeX, 7 eps figures, REVTeX 4
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.77.054019
We investigate target mass effects in 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. We obtain the Nachtmann moments for the structure functions and then, by inverting the moments, we get the expressions in closed form for $F_2^\gamma(x,Q^2,P^2)$ up to the next-to-next-to-leading order and for $F_L^\gamma(x,Q^2,P^2)$ up to the next-to-leading order, both of which include the target mass corrections. Numerical analysis exhibits that target mass effects appear at large $x$ and become sizable near $x_{\rm max}(=1/(1+\frac{P^2}{Q^2}))$, the maximal value of $x$, as the ratio $P^2/Q^2$ increases.
Kitadono Yoshio
Sasaki Ken
Ueda Takahiro
Uematsu Tsuneo
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