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Unitarized Diffractive Scattering in QCD and Application to Virtual Photon Total Cross Sections
The problem of restoring Froissart bound to the BFKL-Pomeron is studied in an
extended leading-log approximation of QCD. We consider parton-parton scattering
amplitude and show that the sum of all Feynman-diagram contributions can be
written in an eikonal form. In this form dynamics is determined by the phase
shift, and subleading-logs of all orders needed to restore the Froissart bound
are automatically provided. The main technical difficulty is to find a way to
extract these subleading contributions without having to compute each Feynman
diagram beyond the leading order. We solve that problem by using nonabelian cut
diagrams introduced elsewhere. They can be considered as colour filters used to
isolate the multi-Reggeon contributions that supply these subleading-log terms.
Illustration of the formalism is given for amplitudes and phase shifts up to
three loops. For diffractive scattering, only phase shifts governed by one and
two Reggeon exchanges are needed. They can be computed from the
leading-log-Reggeon and the BFKL-Pomeron amplitudes. In applications, we argue
that the dependence of the energy-growth exponent on virtuality for
total cross section observed at HERA can be interpreted as the
first sign of a slowdown of energy growth towards satisfying the Froissart
bound. An attempt to understand these exponents with the present formalism is
discussed.Comment: 41 pages in revtex preprint format, with 10 figure
Double-logarithmic behavior of inelastic fermion form factors in QED and QCD
The effective kinematic diagram technique is applied to study inelastic form
factors of electron and quark in QED and QCD. The explicit expressions for
these form factors in the double-logarithmic approximation are presented. The
self-consistency of the results is shown by demonstrating the fulfillment of
the Kinoshita-Lee-Nauenberg theorem.Comment: 8 pages, REVTeX. Misprints corrected, references adde
Saturation and Wilson Line Distributions
We introduce a Wilson line distribution function bar{W}_tau(v) to study gluon
saturation at small Feynman x_F, or large tau=ln(1/x_F). This new distribution
can be obtained from the distribution W_tau(alpha) of the Color Glass
Condensate model and the JIMWLK renormalization group equation. bar{W}_tau(v)
is physically more relevant, and mathematically simpler to deal with because of
unitarity of the Wilson line v. A JIMWLK equation is derived for bar{W}_tau(v);
its properties are studied. These properties are used to complete Mueller's
derivation of the JIMWLK equation, though for bar{W}_tau(v) and not
W_tau(alpha). They are used to derive a generalized Balitsky-Kovchegov equation
for higher multipole amplitudes. They are also used to compute the unintegrated
gluon distribution at x_F=0, yielding a completely flat spectrum in transverse
momentum squared k^2, with a known height. This is similar but not identical to
the mean field result at small k^2.Comment: One reference and two short comments added. To appear in Physical
Revies
QCD analysis of the diffractive structure function F_2^{D(3)}
The proton diffractive structure function measured in the H1 and
ZEUS experiments at HERA is analyzed in terms of both Regge phenomenology and
perturbative QCD evolution. A new method determines the values of the Regge
intercepts in ``hard'' diffraction, confirming a higher value of the Pomeron
intercept than for soft physics. The data are well described by a QCD analysis
in which point-like parton distributions, evolving according to the DGLAP
equations, are assigned to the leading and sub-leading Regge exchanges. The
gluon distributions are found to be quite different for H1 and ZEUS. A {\it
global fit} analysis, where a higher twist component is taken from models,
allows us to use data in the whole available range in diffractive mass and
gives a stable answer for the leading twist contribution. We give sets of quark
and gluon parton distributions for the Pomeron, and predictions for the charm
and the longitudinal proton diffractive structure function from the QCD fit. An
extrapolation to the Tevatron range is compared with CDF data on single
diffraction. Conclusions on factorization breaking depend critically whether H1
(strong violation) or ZEUS (compatibility at low ) fits are taken into
account.Comment: 24 page
Dijet Production at Large Rapidity Intervals
We examine dijet production at large rapidity intervals at Tevatron energies,
by using the theory of Lipatov and collaborators which resums the leading
powers of the rapidity interval. We analyze the growth of the Mueller-Navelet
-factor in this context and find it to be negligible. However, we do find a
considerable enhancement of jet production at large transverse momenta. In
addition, we show that the correlation in transverse momentum and azimuthal
angle of the tagging jets fades away as the rapidity interval is increased.Comment: 12 pages, preprint DESY 93-139, SCIPP 93/3
Vector Meson Photoproduction from the BFKL Equation II: Phenomenology
Diffractive vector meson photoproduction accompanied by proton dissociation
is studied for large momentum transfer. The process is described by the
non-forward BFKL equation which we use to compare to data collected at the HERA
collider.Comment: 39 pages, 29 figure
Large Scale Rapidity Correlations in Heavy Ion Collisions
We discuss particle production mechanisms for heavy ion collisions. We
present an argument demonstrating how the fluctuations of the number of
produced particles in a series of classical emissions can account for KNO
scaling. We predict rapidity correlations in the particle production in the
event by event analysis of heavy ion collisions on the rapidity scales of the
order of one over the strong coupling constant.Comment: REVTeX, 13 pages, 3 figure
Geometric Scaling in a Symmetric Saturation Model
We illustrate geometric scaling for the photon-proton cross section with a
very simple saturation model. We describe the proton structure function F2 at
small x in a wide kinematical range with an elementary functional form and a
small number of free parameters. We speculate that the symmetry between low and
high Q2 recently discovered in the data could be related to a well-known
symmetry of the two-gluon- exchange dipole-dipole cross section.Comment: 15 pages, 4 figure
Efficacy and safety of the six-dose regimen of artemether-lumefantrine in pediatrics with uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria: A pooled analysis of individual patient data
Patient data from eight clinical trials were pooled and analyzed to study the efficacy and safety of the six-dose versus four-dose regimen of artemether-lumefantrine (coartemether; Coartem) in children weighing 5-25 kg. A total of 544 patients with uncomplicated P. falciparum malaria (six-dose: 343; four-dose: 201), matched for demographic and baseline characteristics and individual coartemether doses were included in the analysis. Analysis of day 28 cure rate based on the intention-to-treat and evaluable populations yielded corrected cure rates for the six-dose regimen of 93% and 96% compared with 61% and 76%, respectively, for the four-dose regimen (P \u3c 0.0001 for both comparisons). Similarly high cure rates were achieved with the six-dose regimen in non-immune infants weighing as little as 5 kg. The six- and four-dose regimens were equally well tolerated. The main finding of this analysis is that the six-dose regimen of coartemether is safe and more efficacious than the four-dose regimen in children. Copyright © 2006 by The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
The Reggeon 2 Reggeons Particle vertex in the Lipatov effective action formalism
The vertex for gluon emission during the splitting of a reggeized gluon into
two is constructed in the framework of Lipatov effective action formalism. Its
reduction to a pure transverse form for the diffractive amplitude gives the
standard Bartels vertex plus an additional contribution corresponding to the
emission from a pointlike splitting vertex. This additional contribution turns
out to be given by a longitudinal integral divergent both in the ultraviolet
and infrared. A certain specific recipe for this part, including the principal
value prescription for the integration, allows to eliminate this unwanted
contribution.Comment: 4 figures; misprints corrected; to be published in Eur.Phys.J.
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