Renormalisation group improved small-x Green's function

We investigate the basic features of the gluon density predicted by a renormalisation group improved small-x equation which incorporates both the gluon splitting function at leading collinear level and the exact BFKL kernel at next-to-leading level. We provide resummed results for the Green's function and its hard Pomeron exponent ωs(αs), and for the splitting function and its critical exponent ωc(αs). We find that non-linear resummation effects considerably extend the validity of the hard Pomeron regime by decreasing diffusion corrections to the Green's function exponent and by slowing down the drift towards the non-perturbative Pomeron regime. As in previous analyses, the resummed exponents are reduced to phenomenologically interesting values. Furthermore, significant preasymptotic effects are observed. In particular, the resummed splitting function departs from the DGLAP result in the moderate small-x region, showing a shallow dip followed by the expected power increase in the very small-x region. Finally, we outline the extension of the resummation procedure to include the photon impact factors. (orig.)