A study of structure functions with the DGLAP: equations at small $x$ with $O(x)$ and $O(x^2)$

Abstract

We obtain a pair of second order differential equations in two variables $x$ and $t$ from the coupled DGLAP QCD evolution equations at small $x$ using the standard Taylor series expansion method.To that end we keep terms upto $O(x^2)$.We use the standard assumption about the relationship between the singlet Structure Function and the gluon distributions available in current literature. We solve the taylor approximated $O(x)$ DGLAP equations by Lagrange's auxiliary method and $O(x^2)$ equation by Method of Separation of Variables and then show that the two solutions obtained in each for $O(x)$ and $O(x^2)$ are not identical in general.Analysis of the results obtained are done in the range of the recent HERA data.

Comments: The paper is of 18 pages and 4 figures