Endpoint behavior of high-energy scattering cross sections
Creators
- 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.
Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1103/PhysRevD.82.094021;
- arXiv
- arXiv:1007.4395v2;
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
Optional Information
- Notes
- (c) 2010 American Institute of Physics