Nn. Nikolaev et al., The color dipole BFKL-Regge expansion: from DIS on protons to pions to rise of hadronic cross sections, PHYS LETT B, 473(1-2), 2000, pp. 157-166
As noticed by Fadin, Kuraev and Lipatov in 1975 incorporation of asymptotic
freedom into the BFKL equation splits the QCD pomeron into a series of iso
lated poles in complex angular momentum plane. Following our earlier work o
n the proton structure function we explore the phenomenological consequence
s of the emerging BFKL-Regge factorized expansion for the small-x structure
function of the pion F-2 pi(x,Q(2)). We calculate F-2 pi in a small-x regi
on and find good agreement with the recent H1 determination of F-2 pi(x,Q(2
)). We also present the BFKL-Regge factorization based evaluation of the co
ntribution from hard scattering to the observed rise of the NN, pi N and re
al photo-absorption gamma N and gamma pi total cross sections. (C) 2000 Pub
lished by Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.