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BFKL resummation effects in gamma* gamma* --> rho rho

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2014-11-18 v3

Abstract

We calculate the leading order BFKL amplitude for the exclusive diffractive process \gamma*_L(Q1^2) \gamma*_L(Q2^2) \to \rho_L^0 \rho_L^0 in the forward direction, which can be studied in future high energy e^+e^- linear colliders. The resummation effects are very large compared to the fixed-order calculation. We also estimate the next-to-leading logarithmic corrections to the amplitude by using a specific resummation of higher order effects and find a substantial growth with energy, but smaller than in the leading logarithmic approximation.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0508134,
  title  = {BFKL resummation effects in gamma* gamma* --> rho rho},
  author = {R. Enberg and B. Pire and L. Szymanowski and S. Wallon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0508134},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

23 pages, 13 figures. Numerical bug affecting plots in Figs 12 and 13 corrected