Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
1999-01-25
Phys.Rev. D60 (1999) 074003
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
16 pages, 3 figures, Latex
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.60.074003
Recent concerns about the very large next-to-leading logarithmic (NLL) corrections to the BFKL equation are addressed by the introduction of a physical rapidity-separation parameter $\Delta$. At the leading logarithm (LL) this parameter enforces the constraint that successive emitted gluons have a minimum separation in rapidity, $y_{i+1}-y_i>\Delta$. The most significant effect is to reduce the BFKL Pomeron intercept from the standard result as $\Delta$ is increased from 0 (standard BFKL). At NLL this $\Delta$-dependence is compensated by a modification of the BFKL kernel, such that the total dependence on $\Delta$ is formally next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic. In this formulation, as long as $\Delta\gtrsim2.2$ (for $\alpha_{s}=0.15$): (i) the NLL BFKL pomeron intercept is stable with respect to variations of $\Delta$, and (ii) the NLL correction is small compared to the LL result. Implications for the applicability of the BFKL resummation to phenomenology are considered.
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