The effect of higher order corrections to the BFKL equation on the perturbative pomeron

1998/04/20 by Douglas A. Ross, D. A. Ross · 6 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #hep-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/s0370-2693(98)00570-x

published as Phys.Lett.B431:161-165,1998 · 6 pages, LATEX, 4 figures

arxiv created 1998/04/20 · openalex publication_date 1998/07/01 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

We discuss the significance of the next-to-leading order term in the BFKL equation on the energy dependence of diffractive processes controlled by the perturbative QCD pomeron. It is shown that whereas the large negative corrections do indeed reduce the rate of growth of diffractive amplitudes with increasing energy, this reduction is considerably less than previously expected.

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