The QCD pomeron in e+e- collisions

J. Kwiecinski; L. Motyka

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The QCD pomeron in e+e- collisions

J. Kwiecinski·L. Motyka

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The contribution of the QCD pomeron to the processes: e+e- to e+e- J/psi J/psi and e+ e- to e+ e- hadrons (with tagged electrons) is discussed. We focus on reactions which occur via photon-photon collisions, with virtual photons coming from the Weizsaecker-Wiliams spectrum of the electrons. We stress the importance of the non-leading corrections to the BFKL equation and take into account dominant non-leading effects which come from the requirement that the virtuality of the exchanged gluons along the gluon ladder is controlled by their transverse momentum squared. The γ* γ* cross-sections are found to increase with increasing γ* γ* CM energy W as (W^2)^{λ_P} while the cross-section for γγto J/psi J/psi is found to increase as (W^2)^{2λ_P}. The parameter λ_P is slowly varying with energy W and takes the values lambda_P \sim 0.23 - 0.35 depending on the process. We also analyze the contribution of the soft pomeron for the total γ* γ* cross-section. We compare results of our calculations to the recent data from LEP.

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J. Kwiecinski, L. Motyka. 1999-04-27. The QCD pomeron in e+e- collisions. https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9904464

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