A Direct Test of Perturbative QCD at Small x

Details A Direct Test of Perturbative QCD at Small x A Direct Test of Perturbative QCD at Small x

1994-06-24

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9406385v3

Phys.Lett. B336 (1994) 77-79

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

6 pages, 3 figures in compressed postscript, TeX with harvmac, CERN-TH.7331/94, error in specification of cuts corrected

Scientific paper

10.1016/0370-2693(94)00956-2

We show that recent data from HERA on the proton structure function $F_2$ at small $x$ and large $Q^2$ provide a direct confirmation of the double asymptotic scaling prediction of perturbative QCD. A linear rise of $\ln F_2$ with the scaling variable $\sigma$ is observed throughout the kinematic region probed at HERA, and the measured slope is in excellent agreement with the QCD prediction. This provides a direct determination of the leading coefficient of the beta function. At large values of the scaling variable $\rho$ the data display a small but statistically significant scaling violation.

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