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A Semianalytical Method to Evolve Parton Distributions

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2014-11-17 v2

Abstract

We present a new method to solve in a semianalytical way the Dokshitzer-Gribov-Lipatov-Altarelli-Parisi evolution equations at NLO order in the x-space. The method allows to construct an evolution operator expressed in form of a rapidly convergent series of matrices, depending only on the splitting functions. This operator, acting on a generic initial distribution, provides a very accurate solution in a short computer time (only a few hundredth of second). As an example, we apply the method, useful to solve a wide class of systems of integrodifferential equations, to the polarized parton distributions.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9807572,
  title  = {A Semianalytical Method to Evolve Parton Distributions},
  author = {Pietro Santorelli and Egidio Scrimieri},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9807572},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

15 pages LaTeX + 6 figures; typos corrected, added reference, to appear in Phys. Lett. B