S-matrix unitarity, impact parameter profiles, gluon saturation and high-energy scattering

DOI10.1016/S0375-9474(02)01042-4zbMATH Open1065.81603arXivhep-ph/0202012MaRDI QIDQ696095FDOQ696095

Authors: A. I. Shoshi, Frank Daniel Steffen, Hans-Jürgen Pirner 

Publication date: 10 September 2002

Published in: Nuclear Physics. A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A model combining perturbative and non-perturbative QCD is developed to compute high-energy reactions of hadrons and photons and to investigate saturation effects that manifest the S-matrix unitarity. Following a functional integral approach, the S-matrix factorizes into light-cone wave functions and the universal amplitude for the scattering of two color-dipoles which are represented by Wegner-Wilson loops. In the framework of the non-perturbative stochastic vacuum model of QCD supplemented by perturbative gluon exchange, the loop-loop correlation is calculated and related to lattice QCD investigations. With a universal energy dependence motivated by the two-pomeron (soft + hard) picture that respects the unitarity condition in impact parameter space, a unified description of pp, pip, Kp, gamma* p, and gamma gamma reactions is achieved in good agreement with experimental data for cross sections, slope parameters, and structure functions. Impact parameter profiles for pp and longitudinal gamma* p reactions and the gluon distribution of the proton xG(x,Q^2,b) are calculated and found to saturate in accordance with S-matrix unitarity. The c.m. energies and Bjorken x at which saturation sets in are determined.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0202012

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zbMATH Keywords

factorizationnon-perturbative QCDperturbative QCD

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05)

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