The ratio of the beauty structure functions $R^b=F_L^b/F_2^b$ at low x

Abstract

We study the structure functions $F_k^b(x,Q^2)$ ($k=2,L$) and the reduced cross section ${\sigma }_r^b(x,Q^2)$ for small values of Bjorken${}^{,}$s $x$ variable with respect to the hard (Lipatov) pomeron for the gluon distribution and provide a compact formula for the ratio $R^b$ that is useful to extract the beauty structure function from the beauty reduced cross section, in particular at DESY HERA. Also we show that the effects of the nonlinear corrections to the gluon distribution tame the behavior of the beauty structure function and the beauty reduced cross section at low $x$.

Comments: 12 pages, 5 figurs, 1 table. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:hep-ph/0603017 by other authors