Running coupling and power corrections in non-linear evolution at the high-energy limit
- 1. Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge CB3 0WA (United Kingdom)
- 2. Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, J.J. Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0HE (United Kingdom)
- 3. Department of Physical Sciences, University of Oulu, PO Box 3000, FIN-90014 Oulu (Finland)
- 4. Department of Physics, Theory Division, CERN, CH-1211 Geneva (Switzerland)
- 5. Department of Physics, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210 (United States)
Description
A main feature of high-energy scattering in QCD is saturation in the number density of gluons. This phenomenon is described by non-linear evolution equations, JIMWLK and BK, which have been derived at leading logarithmic accuracy. In this paper we generalize this framework to include running coupling corrections to the evolution kernel. We develop a dispersive representation of the dressed gluon propagator in the background of Weiszacker-Williams fields and use it to compute O(β0n-1αsn) corrections to the kernel to all orders in perturbation theory. The resummed kernels present infrared-renormalon ambiguities, which are indicative of the form and importance of non-perturbative power corrections. We investigate numerically the effect of the newly computed perturbative corrections as well as the power corrections on the evolution. We present numerical results for the evolution rate as a function of the saturation scale. We find that running-coupling corrections are necessary for making quantitative predictions even when the saturation scale is very large; at present energies also the power corrections are important
Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2006.12.004;
- arXiv
- arXiv:hep-ph/0609087v1;
- PII
- S0375-9474(06)00970-5;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Nuclear Physics. A
- Journal Volume
- 784
- Journal Issue
- 1-4
- Journal Page Range
- p. 282-340
- ISSN
- 0375-9474
- CODEN
- NUPABL
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Netherlands
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 38087564
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Descriptors DEI
- ACCURACY; CORRECTIONS; COUPLING; DENSITY; GLUONS; KERNELS; NONLINEAR PROBLEMS; PERTURBATION THEORY; PROPAGATOR; QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS; QUARKS; SCATTERING
- Descriptors DEC
- BOSONS; FERMIONS; FIELD THEORIES; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY
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- Copyright
- Copyright (c) 2006 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.