A semi-analytical $x$-space solution for parton evolution -- Application to non-singlet and singlet DGLAP equation

Abstract

We present a novel semi-analytical method for parton evolution. It is based on constructing a family of analytic functions spanning $x$-space which is closed under the considered evolution equation. Using these functions as a basis, the original integro-differential evolution equation transforms into a system of coupled ordinary differential equations, which can be solved numerically by restriction to a suitably chosen finite subsystem. The evolved distributions are obtained as analytic functions in $x$ with numerically obtained coefficients, providing insight into the analytic behavior of the evolved parton distributions. As a proof-of-principle, we apply our method to the leading order non-singlet and singlet DGLAP equation. Comparing our results to traditional Mellin-space methods, we find good agreement. The method is implemented in the code $\text{POMPOM}$ in $\text{Mathematica}$ as well as in $\text{Python}$.

29 pages, 11 figures, ancillary files with Mathematica and Python implementations of POMPOM, updated to match journal version, typos in appendix A corrected

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