On the energy dependence of the dipole-proton cross section in deep inelastic scattering

DOI10.1007/JHEP03(2011)062zbMATH Open1301.81281arXiv1101.0288MaRDI QIDQ475968FDOQ475968

Carlo Ewerz, Otto Nachtmann, A. von Manteuffel

Publication date: 27 November 2014

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the dipole picture of high-energy virtual-photon-proton scattering. It is shown that different choices for the energy variable in the dipole cross section used in the literature are not related to each other by simple arguments equating the typical dipole size and the inverse photon virtuality, contrary to what is often stated. We argue that the good quality of fits to structure functions that use Bjorken-x as the energy variable - which is strictly speaking not justified in the dipole picture - can instead be understood as a consequence of the sign of scaling violations that occur for increasing Q^2 at fixed small x. We show that the dipole formula for massless quarks has the structure of a convolution. From this we obtain derivative relations between the structure function F_2 at large and small Q^2 and the dipole-proton cross section at small and large dipole size r, respectively.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1101.0288

zbMATH Keywords

QCDdeep inelastic scattering

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nuclear physics (81V35) Inelastic and multichannel quantum scattering (81U35) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05)

Cites Work

• Towards a nonperturbative foundation of the dipole picture. I: Functional methods
• Towards a nonperturbative foundation of the dipole picture. II: High energy limit
• Pomeron Physics and QCD

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• Dipole-based description of the \(pp\) interaction
• Deep inelastic cross sections in the statistical multistep direct formalism

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