Quantum Corrections to the Weizs\"acker--Williams Distribution Function as Small x
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-10-28 v1
Abstract
We compute the quantum corrections to the gluon distribution function in the background of a non--Abelian Weizs\"acker--Williams field. These corrections are valid to all orders in the effective coupling , where denotes the average valence quark color charge squared per unit area. We find logarithmic corrections to the classical gluon distribution function. The one loop corrections to the classical Weizs\"acker-Williams field do not contribute to these singular terms in the distribution function. Their effect is to cause the running of .
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9508302,
title = {Quantum Corrections to the Weizs\"acker--Williams Distribution Function as Small x},
author = {A. Ayala and J. Jalilian--Marian and L. Mclerran and R. Venugopalan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9508302},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
Latex, 40 pages, 4 figures available upon request to the authors as postscript files