Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
1997-08-07
Eur.Phys.J.C5:303-315,1998
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
latex file with 8 figs. in eps files, small changes in text and in Fig.5
Scientific paper
10.1007/s100520050273
We show how and why the small distance ("hard") interaction, calculable in perturbative QCD, provides a mass cutoff in Gribov's formula for photon-proton collisions. This enables us to find a new and more restrictive bound for this process, $\sigma(\gamma^{*}p)\leq C(ln 1/x)^{5/2}$.A simple model the published experimental data over a wide range of photon virtualities ($Q^2$) and energies ($W$), is developed. This model provides a quantitative way of evaluating the relative rate of the small and large distance contributions, in the different kinematic regions. The main results of the analysis are (i) that even at $Q^2 =0$ and high energies the short distance contribution is not small, and it provides a possible explanation for the experimental rise of the photoproduction cross section; and (ii) at large values of $Q^2$, the long distance processes still contribute to the total cross section.
Gotsman Errol
Levin Eugene M.
Maor Uri
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