Published November 1, 2003 | Version v1
Journal article

Contributions of gluon recombination to saturation phenomena

  • 1. Department of Physics, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062 (China)

Description

Parton distributions in the small x region are numerically predicted by using a modified Dokshitzer-Gribov-Lipatov-Altarelli-Parisi (DGLAP) equation with Glueck-Reya-Vogt (GRV)-like input distributions. We find that gluon recombination at the twist-4 level obviously suppresses the rapid growth of parton densities with x decreasing. We show that before the saturation scale Qs2 is reached, saturation and partial saturation appear in the small x behavior of parton distributions in the nucleus and free proton, respectively. The antishadowing contributions to the saturation phenomena are also discussed

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Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
68
Journal Issue
9
Journal Page Range
p. 094015-094015.11
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ

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(c) 2003 The American Physical Society