Electromagnetic Structure Functions of Nucleons in the Region of Very Small X

A two component model describing the electromagnetic nucleon structure functions in the low-x region, based on generalized vector dominance and color dipole approaches is briefly described.Comment: 3 pages, 1 figure, Talk given at the 14th Lomonosov Conference, Moscow, August 200

Physical mechanism of the (tri)critical point generation

We discuss some ideas resulting from a phenomenological relation recently declared between the tension of string connecting the static quark-antiquark pair and surface tension of corresponding cylindrical bag. This relation analysis leads to the temperature of vanishing surface tension coefficient of the QGP bags at zero baryonic charge density as T_\sigma = 152.9 +- 4.5 MeV. We develop the view point that this temperature value is not a fortuitous coincidence with the temperature of (partial) chiral symmetry restoration as seen in the lattice QCD simulations. Besides, we argue that T_\sigma defines the QCD (tri)critical endpoint temperature and claim that a negative value of surface tension coefficient recently discovered is not a sole result, but should also exist in ordinary liquids at the supercritical temperatures.Comment: Talk given at the Conference "Critical Point and Onset of Deconfinement (CPOD)" that held on August 23 - 29, 2010, JINR, Dubna, Russia. Contains minimal change