Ip. Ivanov et Nn. Nikolaev, Deep-inelastic scattering in k factorization and the anatomy of the differential gluon structure function of the proton, PHYS ATOM N, 64(4), 2001, pp. 753-774
The differential gluon structure function of the proton, F(x, Q(2)), introd
uced by Fadin, Kuraev, and Lipatov in 1975 is extensively used in small-x Q
CD. We report here the first determination of F(x, Q(2)) from experimental
data on the small-x proton structure function F-2p(x, q(2)). We give conven
ient parametrizations for F(x, Q(2)) based partly on the available DGLAP ev
olution fits (GRV, CTEQ, and MRS) to parton distribution functions and on r
ealistic extrapolations into the soft region. We discuss the impact of soft
gluons on various observables. The x dependence of the so-determined F(x,
Q(2)) varies strongly with Q(2) and does not exhibit simple Regge propertie
s. Nonetheless, the hard-to-soft diffusion is found to give rise to a viabl
e approximation of the proton structure function F-2p(x, Q(2)) by the soft
and hard Reege components with intercepts Delta (soft) = 0 and Delta (hard)
similar to 0.4. (C) 2001 MAIK "Nauka/Interperiodica".