Comparing AdS/CFT calculations to HERA F-2 data

Kovchegov, Yuri V. and Lu, Zhun and Rezaeian, Amir H. (2009) Comparing AdS/CFT calculations to HERA F-2 data. PHYSICAL REVIEW D, 80 (7): 074023. ISSN 2470-0010, 2470-0029

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Abstract

We show that HERA data for the inclusive structure function F-2(x, Q(2)) at small Bjorken-x and Q(2) can be reasonably well described by a color-dipole model with an anti-de Sitter space/conformal field theory (AdS/CFT)-inspired dipole-proton cross section. The model contains only three free parameters fitted to data. In our AdS/CFT-based parameterization the saturation scale varies in the range of 1 divided by 3 GeV becoming independent of energy/Bjorken-x at very small x. This leads to the prediction of x independence of the F-2 and F-L structure functions at very small x. We provide predictions for F-2 and F-L in the kinematic regions of future experiments. We discuss the limitations of our approach and its applicability region, and argue that our AdS/CFT-based model of nonperturbative physics could be viewed as complementary to the perturbative description of data based on saturation/color glass condensate physics.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: COLOR GLASS CONDENSATE; GLUON DISTRIBUTION-FUNCTIONS; WEIZSACKER-WILLIAMS FIELD; HIGH-ENERGY SCATTERING; CROSS-SECTION; SMALL-X; NONLINEAR EVOLUTION; BFKL EQUATION; LARGE NUCLEUS; LOW Q(2);
Subjects: 500 Science > 530 Physics
Divisions: Physics > Institute of Theroretical Physics
Depositing User: Dr. Gernot Deinzer
Date Deposited: 07 Sep 2020 05:06
Last Modified: 07 Sep 2020 05:06
URI: https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/28376

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