The evolution of the virtual photon-proton cross section with coherence length

12 Apr 2016, 09:00
15m
SR4b (DESY Hamburg)

SR4b

DESY Hamburg

Small-x, Diffraction and Vector Mesons WG5 Small-x and Diffraction

Speaker

Allen Caldwell (Max Planck Institute)

Description

Assuming the form $\sigma^{\gamma P} \propto l^{\lambda_{\rm eff}}$ at fixed $Q^2$ for the behavior of the virtual-photon proton scattering cross section, where $l$ is the coherence length of the photon fluctuations, it is seen that the extrapolated values of $\sigma^{\gamma P}$ for different $Q^2$ cross for $l\approx 10^8$~fm. It is argued that this behavior is not physical, and that the behavior of the cross sections must change before this coherence length $l$ is reached. The behavior is compared to expectations to expectations from various models.

Primary author

Allen Caldwell (Max Planck Institute)

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