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On the 2nd Order Corrections to the Hard Pomeron and the Running Coupling Constant

N. Armesto, J. Bartels, M. A. Braun

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/9808340

Abstract

It is shown that solutions to the 2nd order BFKL eigenvalue equation exist for arbitrary large real values of the complex angular momentum j. This corresponds to a cut in the complex j plane along the whole real axis, and it makes the use of the complex angular momentum variable for the calculation of the high-energy behavior somewhat questionable. The eigenfunctions contain non-perturbative pieces which behave as (-1/αs b) and have no counterpart in the leading-log BFKL equation. The high-energy behavior of the 2nd order BFKL Green function as found by other authors, is reproduced by excluding these non-perturbative pieces of the eigenfunctions.

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