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The interplay between Sudakov resummation, renormalons and higher twist in deep inelastic scattering

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-07 v1

Abstract

We claim that factorization implies that the evolution kernel, defined by the logarithmic derivative of the N-th moment of the structure function d ln F_2^N / d ln Q^2, receives logarithmically enhanced contributions (Sudakov logs) from a single source, namely the constrained invariant mass of the jet. Available results from fixed-order calculations facilitate Sudakov resummation up to the next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic accuracy. We use additional all-order information on the physical kernel from the large-beta_0 limit to model the behaviour of further subleading logs and explore the uncertainty in extracting alpha_s and in determining the magnitude of higher-twist contributions from a comparison with data on high moments.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0210429,
  title  = {The interplay between Sudakov resummation, renormalons and higher twist in deep inelastic scattering},
  author = {E. Gardi and R. G. Roberts},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0210429},
  year   = {2009}
}

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32 pages, 12 post-script figures