Jet production from the perturbative QCD pomeron with a running coupling constant

Abstract

An analysis of minijet production from the hard pomeron with a running coupling constant is performed. Two supercritical pomerons found in the numerical study are taken into account. The calculated inclusive jet production rate is finite at small $k_{\perp }$ and behaves like $1/k_{\perp }^{-4}$ at high $k_{\perp }$ modulo factors coming from logarithmic terms. The average $k_{\perp }$ is found to be very large ($\sim 10-13GeV/c$) and practically independent of energy. This is interpreted as an indication that at present energies we are still far from the asymptotics and that, apart from supercritical pomerons, other states contribute significantly.