Regge analysis of deep-inelastic lepton-nucleon scattering

The asymptotic behavior of the structure functions $F_2^{ep}\left(x\right)$ and $F_2^{\nu p}\left(x\right)$ is studied in a quark-parton model. It is shown that the structure functions have the expected Regge behavior. The calculated Regge residues agree well with those obtained from pion-nucleon cross sections by an extrapolation in Q² via a weak form of generalized scaling. The total photoabsorption cross section is also reproduced in this scheme, once the over-all scale is fixed.