arXiv:hep-ph/0111390·v2·High Energy Physics — Phenomenology
High-Energy Asymptotics of Photon--Photon Collisions in QCD
Stanley J. Brodsky (SLAC)🇺🇸 · Victor S. Fadin (Budker Institute for Nuclear Physics, Novosibirsk)🇷🇺 · Victor T. Kim (St.Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute & CERN) · Lev N. Lipatov (St.Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute)🇷🇺 · Grigorii B. Pivovarov (Institute for Nuclear Research, Moscow)🇷🇺
Abstract
The high-energy behaviour of the total cross section for highly virtual photons, as predicted by the BFKL equation at next-to-leading order (NLO) in QCD, is presented. The NLO BFKL predictions, improved by the BLM optimal scale setting, are in excellent agreement with recent OPAL and L3 data at CERN LEP2.
Comments: 5 pages, 1 figure, presented by VTK at PHOTON2001, Ascona, Switzerland, 2-7 September 2001, to appear in the Proceedings; two references added