English

The Quark Impact Factors

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-31 v1

Abstract

We calculate in the next-to-leading approximation the non-forward quark impact factors for both singlet and octet color representation in the tt-channel. The integral representation of the octet impact factor in the general case of arbitrary space-time dimension and massive quark flavors is used to check the so-called "second bootstrap condition" for the gluon Reggeization at the next-to-leading logarithmic approximation in perturbative QCD. We find that it is satisfied for both helicity conserving and non-conserving parts. The integrations are then performed for the explicit calculation of the impact factors in the massless quark case.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9908265,
  title  = {The Quark Impact Factors},
  author = {V. S. Fadin and R. Fiore and M. I. Kotsky and A. Papa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9908265},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

23 pages, LaTeX, 1 EPS figure, uses epsf.sty and axodraw.sty

R2 v1 2026-07-22T14:53:00.047Z