The hard QCD Pomeron: some aspects of its phenomenology and interactions

Abstract

The Regge limit in perturbative QCD for processes as DIS (low x) and photon or onia-particles scattering is considered. In the first part a phenomenological approach for the inclusion of the running coupling, preserving the gluon reggeization property, is analyzed. In particular the spectrum of the hard pomeron equation and the asymptotic form of the solution are used to study scattering processes with also inclusive jet production. The singlet part of the proton structure function is evolved towards the low x region according to the full equation. In the second part the problem of unitarity in the QCD is considered. Following the general Bartels approach the four reggeized gluon system is studied in the large number of colours limit. The interplay between double pomeron exchange and triple pomeron vertex contributions is studied. The conformal invariance of the three pomeron vertex is shown in terms of a building block function, and the coupling to pomerons has been considered to make contact with the colour dipole picture which presents a similar triple pomeron interaction. It is also shown that in the A.H. Mueller approach his equation for higher order colour dipole densities leads to solutions which can be represented as fan diagrams with only triple pomeron vertices. Finally we draw some conclusion and open problems.