Predictions for high-energy real and virtual photon–photon scattering from color dipole BFKL–Regge factorization |
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Authors: | NN Nikolaev J Speth VR Zoller |
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Institution: | (1) Institut für Kernphysik, Forschungszentrum Jülich, 52425 Jülich, Germany , DE;(2) L.D. Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Chernogolovka, Moscow Region 142 432, Russia , RU;(3) Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow 117218, Russia , RU |
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Abstract: | High-energy virtual photon–virtual photon scattering can be viewed as an interaction of small size color dipoles from the
beam and target photons, which makes scattering at high energies (LEP, LEP200 and NLC) an indispensable probe of the short distance properties of the QCD pomeron
exchange. Based on the color dipole representation, we investigate the consequences for the scattering of the incorporation of asymptotic freedom into the BFKL equation which makes the QCD pomeron a series of isolated
poles in the angular momentum plane. The emerging color dipole BFKL–Regge factorization allows us to relate in a model-independent
way the contributions of each BFKL pole to scattering and DIS off protons. Numerical predictions based on our early works on the color dipole BFKL phenomenology of
DIS on protons are in good agreement with the experimental data on the photon structure function and the most recent data on the cross section from the OPAL and L3 experiments at LEP200. We discuss the role of non-perturbative dynamics and predict a pronounced effect
of the Regge-factorization breaking due to large unfactorizable non-perturbative corrections to the perturbative vacuum exchange.
We comment on the salient features of the BFKL–Regge expansion for scattering including the issue of the decoupling of subleading BFKL poles and the soft plus rightmost hard BFKL pole dominance.
Received: 9 January 2001 / Revised version: 25 September 2001 / Published online: 7 December 2001 |
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