Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2009-03-16
Phys.Atom.Nucl.73:672-679,2010
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
16 pages, 4 figures. The contribution to the volume in honor of Lev Okun's 80 birthday
Scientific paper
10.1134/S1063778810040137
One of the well known effects of the asymptotic freedom is splitting of the leading-$\log$ BFKL pomeron into a series of isolated poles in complex angular momentum plane. Following our earlier works we explore the phenomenological consequences of the emerging BFKL-Regge factorized expansion for the small-$x$ charm ($F_2^c$) and beauty ($F_{2}^{b}$) structure functions of the proton. As we found earlier,the color dipole approach to the BFKL dynamics predicts uniquely decoupling of subleading hard BFKL exchanges from $F_2^c$ at moderately large $Q^{2}$. We predicted precocious BFKL asymptotics of $F_2^c(x,Q^2)$ with intercept of the rightmost BFKL pole $\alpha_{\Pom}(0)-1=\Delta_{\Pom}\approx 0.4$. High-energy open beauty photo- and electro-production probes the vacuum exchange at much smaller distances and detects significant corrections to the BFKL asymptotics coming from the subleading vacuum poles. In view of the accumulation of the experimental data on small-$x$ $F_{2}^{c}$ and $F_{2}^{b}$ we extended our early predictions to the kinematical domain covered by new HERA measurements.Our structure functions obtained in 1999 agree well with the determination of both $F_2^c$ and $F_2^b$ by the H1 published in 2006 but contradict to very recent (2008, preliminary) H1 results on $F_2^b$. We present also comparison of our early predictions for the longitudinal structure function $F_L$ with recent H1 data (2008) taken at very low Bjorken $x$. We comment on the electromagnetic corrections to the Okun-Pomeranchuk theorem.
Nikolaev Nikolai N.
Zoller Vladimir R.
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