A unified BFKL/DGLAP description of Deep Inelastic Scattering

Abstract

We introduce a coupled pair of evolution equations for the unintegrated gluon distribution and the sea quark distribution which incorporate both the resummed leading $\ln (1/x)$ BFKL contributions and the resummed leading $\ln (Q^2)$ DGLAP contributions. We solve these unified equations in the perturbative QCD domain. With only two physically motivated parameters we obtain an excellent description of the HERA $F_2$ data.

Comments: 5 pages, LaTeX, using aipproc.sty, 3 eps figures, talk given by R.G. Roberts at the International Conference on Deep Inelastic Scattering, Chicago, April 1997