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Theory Center Seminar<br>
Monday, Dec. 9, 2013<br>
1:00 p.m. (coffee at 12:45 p.m.)<br>
CEBAF Center Auditorium<br>
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Martin Hentschinski<br>
Brookhaven National Laboratory<br>
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<b>Proton Structure Functions at Small x Explored Through Linear
Evolution </b><br>
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Proton structure functions are currently described with excellent
accuracy in terms of parton distribution functions, defined in terms
of collinear factorization and DGLAP evolution. With decreasing x
however, parton densities increase and are ultimately expected to
saturate. In this regime DGLAP evolution is expected to break down
and nonlinear evolution equations will take over. In the first part
of the talk we present recent results on an implementation of
physical DGLAP evolution. Unlike the conventional description in
terms of parton distribution functions, the former describes
directly the Q dependence of the measured structure functions and is
therefore insensitive to factorization scheme and scale ambiguities.
As a consequence it provides a more stringent test of DGLAP
evolution and eases the manifestation of (nonlinear) small x
effects. In the second part we present a recent analysis of the
small x region of the combined HERA data on the structure function
F2. We demonstrate that (linear) next-to-leading order BFKL
evolution is able to describe the combined HERA data, once a
resummation of collinear enhanced terms is included and the
renormalization scale is fixed using the BLM optimal scale setting
procedure. <br>
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