A comment on the LLA method, the kT jet algorithm and the BFKL theory

Abstract

The leading logarithmic approximation method fails to yield the correct asymptotic behavior in some realistic situations: inclusion of the beta-terms to which the LLA method is insensitive may change a power growth to merely logarithmic. The results of [hep-ph/0101058] indicate that the problem of large-s behavior of total cross sections belongs to this class. Similarly, a reference to the LLA method cannot be sufficient to justify constructions such as the kT jet algorithm.

Comments: 6 pages; published in: "Hadron structure and QCD: from low to high energies": HSQCD 2008, Gatchina, Russia, June 30-July 4, 2008. Gatchina : Petersburg nuclear physics inst. of Russian acad. sci., 2010. ISBN 978-5-86763-255-7