Color-Dipole Picture versus Hard Pomeron in Deep Inelastic Scattering

Abstract

For photon virtualities of $Q^2 \gsim 20 {\rm GeV}^2$, the results of the (hard Pomeron) fit in the tensor-Pomeron model in terms of the variables $Q^2$ and the virtual-photon-proton energy squared, $W^2$, provide empirical evidence for the validity of the Color Dipole Picture (CDP). Consistency of the CDP with the perturbative QCD (pQCD) improved parton model implies the prediction of $C_2={\epsilon }_0\cong 0.30$ for the exponent $C_2$ of the energy-squared dependence in agreement with the results of the fits. For $Q^2 \lsim 20 GeV^2$, the CDP yields a parameter-free smooth transition from $Q^2 \gsim 20 {\rm GeV}^2$ to $Q^2=0$ photoproduction, in distinction from the tensor-Pomeron model that relies on the additional parameter quantifying the intercept of the soft-Pomeron trajectory.

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