The exponent of the longitudinal structure function $F_{L}$ at low $x$
G.R.Boroun

TL;DR
This paper derives formulas to determine the exponents of the longitudinal structure function at small $x$, revealing their independence from $Q^2$ at NNLO and predicting non-linear effects like shadowing at LHeC.
Contribution
It introduces new formulas for extracting structure function exponents from Regge-like behavior and demonstrates their $Q^2$ independence at NNLO, with implications for non-linear QCD effects.
Findings
Exponents are independent of $Q^2$ at NNLO.
Reduced cross section exponents vary at different $x$ values.
Good agreement with HERA data at small $x$.
Abstract
We present a set of formula to extract exponents of the longitudinal structure function and reduced cross section from the Regge-like behavior at small . The exponents are found to be independent of at NNLO analysis. As a result, we show that the reduced cross section exponents do not have the same behavior at some values of . This difference predicts the non-linear effects and some evidence for shadowing and antishadowing at LHeC. Also the ratio is calculated and compared with the corresponding HERA data. Our calculations show a very good agreement with the DIS experimental data throughout the small values of .
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The exponent of the longitudinal structure function at low
G.R.Boroun
[email protected]; [email protected]
Physics Department, Razi University, Kermanshah 67149, Iran
Abstract
We present a set of formula to extract exponents of the longitudinal structure function and reduced cross section from the Regge-like behavior at small . The exponents are found to be independent of at NNLO analysis. As a result, we show that the reduced cross section exponents do not have the same behavior at some values of . This difference predicts the non- linear effects and some evidence for shadowing and antishadowing at LHeC. Also the ratio is calculated and compared with the corresponding HERA data. Our calculations show a very good agreement with the DIS experimental data throughout the small values of .
pacs:
††preprint: APS/123-QED
Contents
- .1 1. Introduction
- .2 2. Behavior of
- .3 2.1. Gluonic term:
- .4 2.2. Singlet+Gluon terms:
- .5 2.3. Light+Charm terms:
- .6 3. Reduced cross section
- .7 4. Conclusion
- .8 References
.1 1. Introduction
The appropriate framework for the theoretical description of the small- behavior of the structure functions is the Regge approach. The Regge theory gives a good description of the structure functions, where the high-energy scattering can be described by power-like behavior at small-. The following parameterization of the deep inelastic scattering structure function defined by
[TABLE]
that the singlet part of the structure function is controlled by pomeron exchange. Here the term is hard-pomeron and is soft-pomeron exchange [1-2]. The effective intercept behavior, at small values of , exhibited for the fast growth of the singlet structure function. The exponent is found to be in Refs.[3-4]. It can be recast into the symbolic form as
[TABLE]
According to the Regge theory the charm component of is governed entirely by hard pomeron exchange. In perturbative quantum chromodynamics (pQCD) the charmed quark originates from a gluon in the proton. Therefore the small- behavior of the gluon distribution function is dominated with hard-pomeron intercept as
[TABLE]
where [1-6]. This implies that the gluon distribution is dominated by the hard pomeron behavior. Indeed this steep behavior of the gluon distribution generates a similar steep behavior of at small where in high-order corrections.
We now consider the proton*,*s longitudinal structure function . It is known that the dominant source for the longitudinal structure function, at small-, is the gluon density. It is become traditional to believe that the longitudinal intercept has the same behavior of the gluon intercept. As a alternative, one can study the power-like behavior of via analytical solutions of the evolution equations. It is tempting, however, to explore the possibility of obtaining analytical solutions of the longitudinal intercept in the restricted domain of small at least. In this paper we suggest the power like behavior of the longitudinal structure function as
[TABLE]
at high-order corrections [7].
In pQCD, the Altarelli-Martinelli equation for longitudinal structure function in terms of coefficient functions is given by [8-9]
[TABLE]
At small , the nonsinglet contribution is negligible and can be ignored. Here and are the flavour singlet and gluon distribution function, where stand for the average of the charge for the active quark flavours () and denotes the number of active light flavours.
[9] where denotes the order in as at NNLO analysis the running coupling constant has the following form
[TABLE]
Here are the high-order corrections to the QCD -function and where is the QCD cut-off parameter. In Eq.(5) we use the NLO expression for the longitudinal charm structure function [10-11] where the charm cross-section is generated by photon-gluon fusion. This is called the fixed flavour number scheme (FFNS) and incorporates the correct threshold behavior for and extended to the zero mass variable flavour number scheme (ZM-VFNS) above this threshold [12]. In the framework of this scheme we consider the heavy flavor physics in the DGLAP [13] dynamics. Further simplification is obtained by neglecting the contributions caused by incoming light quark and antiquarks at small values of .
The contribution of the longitudinal structure function to the cross section can be sizeable only at large values of the inelasticity [14]. The reduced cross section is defined as
[TABLE]
where . At small- the relation holds to a very good approximation as the cross section rises with decreasing ( where is the center of mass energy squared). However, at very high- a characteristic bending of the cross section is attributed to the longitudinal structure function contribution [15-16].
In this paper, we suggest analytical solutions of the high-order corrections for the longitudinal structure function exponent at small . The results have been included in the reduced cross section exponent. The behavior of these exponents are compared with the gluon and singlet exponents where hard pomeron is dominant.
.2 2. Behavior of
.3 2.1. Gluonic term:
The perturbative predictions for the gluonic longitudinal structure function can be written as
[TABLE]
where . The evolution of at fixed is obtained by the following form
[TABLE]
where . Here we used the Regge-like behavior of the gluon distribution function in Eq.(8). Using Eqs.(8) and (9) and simplifying derivative of the longitudinal structure function, we get
[TABLE]
where . We note that exponents and are given as the derivatives
[TABLE]
Therefore, the longitudinal exponent with respect to the gluonic term is defined as follows
[TABLE]
here
[TABLE]
.4 2.2. Singlet+Gluon terms:
The standard collinear factorization formula for the longitudinal structure function in terms of singlet and gluon structure function at small- is given by
[TABLE]
Taking the derivative of Eq.(14) with respect to for each value of constant , we get
[TABLE]
where . Exploiting the small- behavior of the distribution functions according to the hard-pomeron. Then equation (14) can be rewritten as
[TABLE]
Now, using Eqs.(15) and (16), the longitudinal exponent is found directly from the singlet and gluon exponents, namely
[TABLE]
where [17]. We observe that equation (17) implies a relationship between the longitudinal exponent and singlet-gluon exponents for even . Thus an analytical expression for the longitudinal exponent is suggested at LO, NLO and NNLO.
.5 2.3. Light+Charm terms:
In a similar manner, the charm contribution to the longitudinal structure function is considered and the longitudinal exponent can be determined at small with help of the light and gluon exponents as
[TABLE]
where =Eq.(14) with for (number of active light flavours).
With respect to the recent measurements of HERA [18], the charm contribution to the structure function at small is a large fraction of the total. This behavior is directly related to the growth of the gluon distribution at small [11] as
[TABLE]
where and is the mass factorization scale. The factorization scale is equal to the renormalization scales or . Here is the charm coefficient functions in LO and NLO analysis [19-21] as
[TABLE]
where and in the NLO analysis
[TABLE]
with and .
After doing the integration over , Eq.(19) can be rewritten as
[TABLE]
where
[TABLE]
The -derivative of the longitudinal structure function is defined by
[TABLE]
Following the suggestion of the power-like behavior of the logarithmic -derivative of the distribution functions we have the longitudinal exponent for , as
[TABLE]
Therefore, equations (12), (17) and (25) are a set of formulas to extract the longitudinal exponent from the singlet and gluon exponents at gluonic, singlet+gluon and light +charm terms respectively in LO, NLO and NNLO.
We now discuss how the presented results give the exponents for the longitudinal structure functions at small . In Ref.[4] the authors have suggested that singlet and gluon effective exponents can be reasonably defined by color dipole model and hard-pomeron exponents. The exponents of and are found to be and respectively [4]. Based on the coefficient functions [9] and effective exponents we present result for the longitudinal exponents at LO, NLO and NNLO using Eqs.(12), (17) and (25) respectively.
In Eq.(12) the longitudinal exponent behavior for the gluonic contribution is determined. After doing the integration and using the required coefficient functions the longitudinal exponents, in the range and , are determined in Fig.1. In this figure the obtained results are compared with . We observe that at NLO and NNLO analysis. In all the graphs, is equal to at very low values. For all values of we observe that only at LO analysis. In this case the longitudinal exponent is hard-pomeron dominated. Therefore the averaged value to all exponents has the effective constraint where the effective longitudinal exponent has the following value as
[TABLE]
In the following the longitudinal exponent is obtained using the singlet and gluon terms from Eq.(17) with respect to the exponents in Fig.2. In this figure, the longitudinal exponent is plotted against for different values of in comparison with singlet () and gluon () exponents at LO, NLO and NNLO analysis. Since is an analytical function of , it can not be exactly constant at small . This is due to the coefficient function and dispersion of data. Nevertheless, we observe that does not strongly depends on at [22]. In fact, it is more likely that exponent depends weakly on . However the averaged value to all exponents in this case has the following value at NNLO as
[TABLE]
In Fig.3, the values of longitudinal exponent are shown as a function of at four different fixed values with respect to the light ()+charm coefficient functions. After doing some derivation of the heavy quarks we observe that the longitudinal exponents have the same behavior as discussed in Figs.1 and 2. The merit of this plot, in comparison with another one, is mainly due to its relation with the charm distribution. The data have the property that the charm structure function require a hard-pomeron component [1-2,5,18]. The averaged value to all exponents for the light and charm distribution at NNLO has the following value
[TABLE]
It can be clearly seen that the longitudinal exponents decrease as active flavours increases, but with a somewhat smaller rate. It can be well described by
[TABLE]
Furthermore, these solutions predict that in a wide range of values at high order corrections.
In Fig.4 we compare these predictions for longitudinal exponents as a function of . The exponent of the longitudinal structure function is observed that depends weakly on . It can be represented by a constant which is almost independent of and . This is consistent with the hard-pomeron defined by Donnachie and Landshoff [1-2,5]. So the simplest form to the small behavior of the longitudinal structure function corresponds to . Having conclude that the data for require a hard pomeron component with condition of Eq.(29).
.6 3. Reduced cross section
The extraction of the reduced double differential cross section is based on two proton structure functions and . When , the reduced cross section tends to . An important advantage of HERA is used to perform an extraction of the longitudinal structure function with respect to the extrapolation and derivative methods [15,23].
As discussed in section 2, the behavior of the proton structure functions and are and at fixed respectively. On this basis the reduced cross section distribution can be parametrised as
[TABLE]
We analysis the reduced cross section behavior with a power-like behavior at small at fixed as
[TABLE]
where
[TABLE]
In order to do this, the derivative of , taken at fixed , is given by
[TABLE]
Hence, the reduced cross section exponent is defined by an analytical expression as
[TABLE]
when . For the reduced cross section exponent tends to the limit
[TABLE]
and tends to the limit
[TABLE]
when . We note that the behavior of in Eq.(34) is controlled at two limited region (Eqs.(35) and (36)). In Fig.5, the behavior of at fixed and values is shown that lead to rapid depletion and enhancement in the small- region (). To better illustration this behavior at small , the reduced cross section exponent is plotted versus the variable (see Fig.6). It can be clearly seen that this result is dependence to the ratio of the structure functions behavior. In color dipole model [24-25], a strict bound for the ratio is defined as . For realistic dipole-proton cross-section [26] the bound is reduced to . From the new measurement of at HERA, a phenomenological model derive ratio of structure functions where lead to the bound in a wide range of values [17]. In Fig.6 the effects of these bounds for the reduced cross section exponent have been presented. For a constant , the reduced cross section exponent has the same behavior of the singlet exponent at and . There is some violation at . In this range a depletion and then an enhancement is observable in all figures as decreases.
In Fig.7 the form for the reduced cross section parametrization at small is plotted. For fixed , the reduced cross section at HERA data [15] rises with decreasing as . The increase of towards small- is consistent with the high-order QCD corrections. This behavior is reflecting the decrease of the reduced cross section towards small-. In Fig.7 this characteristic of the reduced cross section is observed with respect to the depletion behavior at this region. This behavior is consistence with the available HERA data [15]. Thus we observe a continuous increase then decrease towards small .
In H1 analysis, the measured reduced cross section is represented as
[TABLE]
where the value is generally assumed that is constant for all bins. In HERA analysis, the observations obtained with the general methods such as derivative method, offset method and fitted method [15]. We now discuss how the presented results give an analytical analysis for the ratio with respect to the effective exponents at small . In order to obtain the ratio , the derivative of the reduced cross section, taken at fixed , is used as
[TABLE]
Using the fact that cross section and distribution functions have a power-law behavior with an effective exponent. Considering the relationship between the functions and effective exponents, shows a similar relation as we have
[TABLE]
Now, using Eqs.(7) and (39), the ratio is found directly from the exponents, namely
[TABLE]
Here we used the pomeron value of the exponents assumed for small region by the available H1 data. In Fig.8 a comparison is made between our obtained values and the available data. The results of analytical solutions with respect to the exponents for the ratio clearly show significant agreement over a wide range of and values. At very small the nonlinear corrections have to be take into account. Extension of current result to the nonlinear effect is also a valuable task to follow it in future.
.7 4. Conclusion
In this section, a set of new formulas connecting the longitudinal exponent with the gluon and singlet exponents at small have been presented. Based upon the hard pomeron behavior of the gluon and singlet exponents, the behavior of the longitudinal exponent at high order corrections is considered. We found that longitudinal exponent behavior is dependence to the active flavors. The value of the longitudinal exponent is similar to the one predicted for the singlet and gluons. This exponent is almost independent of for . We see that . This exponent as a function of is consistent with the hard pomeron behavior. Thus the behavior of at small is consistent with a dependence throughout that region.
Also we analyse the behavior of the exponent for the reduced cross section. The behavior of at high and very low- values is considered as this behavior is linear and equal to zero. But in the region (at four value determined), the behavior of this function () can no longer be neglected. The deviation of this expression from zero shows the importance of non-linear effects. A depletion in the low (high ) is called shadowing whereas an enhancement is called anti-shadowing [27].
The oscillating behavior for can be explained by new effects at low-, such as the nonlinear recombination. The behavior of the function increase as decreases. The negative shadowing and the positive anti-shadowing corrections to this behavior can be explain by the non- linear effects to the structure functions. In view of these results for the exponents, we may infer some evidence for non- linear effects at LHeC [28].
Considering these determined exponents and using the derivatives methods to find the ratio and finally comparing with the H1 data, one concludes that this new method is capable of determining the ratio with considerable precision.
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