https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-4724-x
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Non-perturbative inputs for gluon distributions in the hadrons
1
Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute, 194021, Saint Petersburg, Russia
2
St. Petersburg Institute of Nuclear Physics, 188300, Gatchina, Russia
* e-mail: boris.ermolaev@cern.ch
Received:
1
November
2016
Accepted:
21
February
2017
Published online:
17
March
2017
Description of hadronic reactions at high energies is conventionally done in the framework of QCD factorization. All factorization convolutions comprise non-perturbative inputs mimicking non-perturbative contributions and perturbative evolution of those inputs. We construct inputs for the gluon–hadron scattering amplitudes in the forward kinematics and, using the optical theorem, convert them into inputs for gluon distributions in the hadrons, embracing the cases of polarized and unpolarized hadrons. In the first place, we formulate mathematical criteria which any model for the inputs should obey and then suggest a model satisfying those criteria. This model is based on a simple reasoning: after emitting an active parton off the hadron, the remaining set of spectators becomes unstable and therefore it can be described through factors of the resonance type, so we call it the resonance model. We use it to obtain non-perturbative inputs for gluon distributions in unpolarized and polarized hadrons for all available types of QCD factorization: basic, 
-and collinear factorizations.
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