Eur. Phys. J. C 22, 479-492 (2001)
DOI: 10.1007/s100520100811
Regge models of the proton structure function with and without hard pomeron: A comparative analysis
P. Desgrolard1 and E. Martynov21 Institut de Physique Nucléaire de Lyon, IN2P3-CNRS et Université Claude Bernard, 43 boulevard du 11 novembre 1918, 69622 Villeurbanne Cedex, France
2 Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 03143 Kiev-143, Metrologicheskaja 14b, Ukraine
(Received: 30 June 2001 / Revised version: 17 September 2001 / Published online: 23 November 2001 - © Springer-Verlag / Società Italiana di Fisica 2001 )
Abstract
A comparative phenomenological analysis of Regge models
with
and without a hard pomeron component is performed using a common
set of
recently updated data. It is shown that the data at small
x
do not
indicate explicitly the presence of the hard pomeron. Moreover,
the models
with two soft-pomeron components (simple and double poles in
the angular
momentum plane) with trajectories having intercept equal to one
lead to the
best description of the data not only at
W>3 GeV and at small
x but
also at all
and
GeV
2.
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