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Saturation and forward jets at HERA

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v2

Abstract

We analyse forward-jet production at HERA in the framework of the Golec-Biernat and Wusthoff saturation models. We obtain a good description of the forward jet cross sections measured by the H1 and ZEUS collaborations in the two-hard-scale region kT ~ Q >> Lambda_QCD with two different parametrisations with either significant or weak saturation effects. The weak saturation parametrization gives a scale compatible with the one found for the proton structure function F_2. We argue that Mueller-Navelet jets at the Tevatron and the LHC could help distinguishing between both options.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0407011,
  title  = {Saturation and forward jets at HERA},
  author = {C. Marquet and R. Peschanski and C. Royon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0407011},
  year   = {2008}
}

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9 pages, 4 figures, version to be published in PLB

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