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A modified BFKL equation with unitarity

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-30 v2

Abstract

We propose a modified Balitskii-Fadin-Kuraev-Lipatov equation from the viewpoint of the resummation technique, which satisfies the unitarity bound. The idea is to relax the strong rapidity ordering and to restrict phase space for real gluon emissions in the evaluation of the BFKL kernel. It is found that the gluon distribution function rises as a power of the Bjorken variable xx, and then saturates at x0x\to 0. We estimate that the saturation begins to occur for x<104x< 10^{-4}.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9709236,
  title  = {A modified BFKL equation with unitarity},
  author = {Hsiang-nan Li},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9709236},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

Conclusion is revised. One figure is added