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The Energy Dependence of the Saturation Momentum

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-06-25 v1

Abstract

We study BFKL evolution and, in particular, the energy dependence of the saturation momentum in the presence of saturation boundaries limiting the region of linear BFKL evolution. In the case of fixed coupling evolution we confirm the previously found exponential term in Qs(Y)Q_s(Y) and determine the prefactor YY and α\alpha dependences. In the running coupling case we find Y1/6Y^{1/6} corrections to the Y1/2Y^{1/2}exponential behavior previously known. Geometrical scaling of the scattering amplitude is valid in a wide-range of momenta for fixed coupling evolution and in a more restricted region for running coupling evolution.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0205167,
  title  = {The Energy Dependence of the Saturation Momentum},
  author = {A. H. Mueller and D. N. Triantafyllopoulos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0205167},
  year   = {2015}
}

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27 pages, 4 figures, Latex