Scaling violations of the proton structure function f2 at small x

Collaboration
Oct, 1993
10 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Lett.B 321 (1994) 161-167
Report number:
  • DESY-93-146
Experiments:

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Abstract: (Elsevier)
An analysis is presented of scaling violations of the proton structure function F 2 ( x , Q 2 ) measured with the H1 detector at HERA in the range of Bjorken x values between x = 3 × 10 −4 and 10 −2 for four-momentum transfers Q > 2 larger than 8.7 GeV 2 . The structure function F 2 ( x , Q 2 ) is observed to rise linearly with ln Q 2 . Under the assumption that the observed scaling violations at small x ⩽ 0.01 are described correctly by perturbative QCD, an estimate is obtained of the gluon distribution function G ( x , Q 0 2 ) at Q 2 2 = 20 GeV 2 .
  • electron p: deep inelastic scattering
  • deep inelastic scattering: electron p
  • p: structure function
  • structure function: small-x
  • scaling: violation
  • dependence: momentum transfer
  • quantum chromodynamics: perturbation theory
  • leading logarithm approximation
  • gluon: momentum spectrum
  • H1