Fourier-positivity constraints on QCD dipole models

Abstract

Fourier-positivity, i.e. the mathematical property that a function has a positive Fourier transform, can be used as a constraint on the parametrization of QCD dipole-target cross-sections or Wilson line correlators in transverse position (r) space. They are Bessel transforms of positive transverse momentum dependent gluon distributions. Using mathematical Fourier-positivity constraints on the limit r -> 0 behavior of the dipole amplitudes, we identify the common origin of the violation of Fourier-positivity for various, however phenomenologically convenient, dipole models. It is due to the behavior r^{2+epsilon}, epsilon>0, softer, even slightly, than color transparency. Fourier-positivity seems thus to conflict with the present dipole formalism when it includes a QCD running coupling constant alpha(r).

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