Published November 1, 2010 | Version v1
Journal article

Endpoint behavior of high-energy scattering cross sections

  • 1. Department of Physics, Korea University, Seoul 136-701 (Korea, Republic of)
  • 2. Theory Division, Department of Physics, CERN, CH-1211 Geneva 23 (Switzerland)

Description

In high-energy processes near the endpoint, there emerge new contributions associated with spectator interactions. Away from the endpoint region, these new contributions are suppressed compared to the leading contribution, but the leading contribution becomes suppressed as we approach the endpoint and the new contributions become comparable. We present how the new contributions scale as we reach the endpoint and show that they are comparable to the suppressed leading contributions in deep inelastic scattering by employing a power-counting analysis. The hadronic tensor in deep inelastic scattering is shown to factorize including the spectator interactions, and it can be expressed in terms of the light cone distribution amplitudes of initial hadrons. We also consider the contribution of the spectator contributions in Drell-Yan processes. Here the spectator interactions are suppressed compared to double parton annihilation according to the power counting.

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
82
Journal Issue
9
Journal Page Range
p. 094021-094021.13
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
42095965
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
Descriptors DEI
AMPLITUDES; ANNIHILATION; CROSS SECTIONS; DEEP INELASTIC SCATTERING; DISTRIBUTION; DRELL MODEL; LIGHT CONE
Descriptors DEC
INELASTIC SCATTERING; INTERACTIONS; LEPTON-BARYON INTERACTIONS; LEPTON-HADRON INTERACTIONS; LEPTON-NUCLEON INTERACTIONS; PARTICLE INTERACTIONS; SCATTERING; SPACE-TIME

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