Eur. Phys. J. C (1998) 1: 271-283
https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01245817

Infrared contribution to the double-logarithmic small-x asymptotics of structure functions

Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Science, Gatchina, St.Petersburg district, 188350, Russia

Received: 10 March 1997
Published online: 27 February 2005

Abstract

The role playing by the “soft” (κ _T < 1 GeV/c) region in the small-x behaviour ofg ₁(x,Q ²) and the non-singlet structure functionf _{1, NS}(x, Q²) has been studied with the help of the effective QCD Lagrangian which takes into account the lightest degrees of freedom — the constituent quarks and the π-mesons (Goldstone bosons). It has been shown that the quark-quark interaction due to the pion exchange has a negative couplingg for the isovector component (I = 1 in thet-channel) off ₁(x,Q ²) and isosinglet component ofg ₁(x, Q²). Here the pion induced interaction changes mainly the normalization of the quark distribution (it decreasesf _1,NS ^{I = 1} (x,Q ²) two times atx < 3·10⁻³) and changes slightly the effective exponents λ (ℕ_1,NS ,g ₁ ∼x ^−λ atx → 0). On the other hand due to a positive value of couplingg the value of λ increases by 15% for the isovector part ofg ₁ (x,Q ²) and up to λ ≈ 0.5 (instead of λ ≈ 0.2 without the pion contribution) for the isoscalar non-singlet structure functionf _1,NS ^{I = 0} (x,Q ²).