Small-x effects in forward-jet production at HERA

Abstract

We investigate small-x effects in forward-jet production at HERA in the two-hard-scale region kT ~ Q>>Lambda_QCD. We show that, despite describing different energy regimes, both a BFKL parametrization and saturation parametrizations describe well the H1 and ZEUS data for dsigma/dx published a few years ago. This is confirmed when comparing the predictions to the latest data.

Comments: 4 pages, 2 figures, Proceedings of the XIIIth International Workshop on Deep Inelastic Scattering (DIS05), Madison, Wisconsin, USA, April 27-May 1 2005