Q2 dependence of the fractional momenta carried by small x quarks and gluons in models of proton structure function

Recently, we suggested two alternative analytical models of proton structure function [Formula: see text] and gluon distribution [Formula: see text] at small [Formula: see text] [L. Machahari and D. K. Choudhury, Eur. Phys. J. A 54, 69 (2018); Commun. Theor. Phys. 71, 56 (2019)] derived from the coupled DGLAP equations for quarks and gluons approximated by Taylor expansion. In this work, we compute the partial momentum fractions carried by quarks and gluons in limited small [Formula: see text] range: [Formula: see text] and compare them with few other models available in the current literature. The analysis leads to understand qualitatively the effects of notions like Froissart saturation and self-similarity in the proton at small [Formula: see text]. We also study if our results conform to the total momentum fractions as predicted in perturbative and lattice QCD.

Froissart bound and self-similarity based models of proton structure functions

Froissart bound implies that the total proton–proton cross-section (or equivalently proton structure function) cannot rise faster than [Formula: see text]. Compatibility of such behavior with the notion of self-similarity in proton structure function was suggested by us sometime back. In the present work, we generalize and improve it further by considering more recent self-similarity based models of proton structure functions and compare with recent data as well as with the model of Block, Durand, Ha and McKay.

Momentum fractions carried by quarks and gluons in models of proton structure functions at small x

In this paper, we report an analysis of partial momentum fractions carried by quarks and gluons in six alternative phenomenological models of proton structure function valid in limited small [Formula: see text] regions: [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text] to 6; the limits being determined by phenomenological range of validity in each model. Since the physics of small [Formula: see text] is not completely understood at this point, we have considered both self-similarity-based as well as QCD-based models. The procedure by which one can determine the applicability ranges in [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] of the models is presented. We find that while the self-similarity-based models with linear rise in [Formula: see text] has limited phenomenological ranges of validity, an improved version with linear rise in [Formula: see text] has a wider phenomenological range. We then compare the partial momentum fractions in all the small [Formula: see text] models. Our analysis implies that the role of small [Formula: see text] sea quarks in calculating the second moments of parton distribution is minor one. We have also made a comprehensive comparison of all the phenomenological models considered to the available perturbative QCD, lattice QCD as well as Ads/QCD results.

Decoupling the NLO-coupled QED⊗QCD, DGLAP evolution equations, using Laplace transform method

We analytically solved the QED[Formula: see text]QCD-coupled DGLAP evolution equations at leading order (LO) quantum electrodynamics (QED) and next-to-leading order (NLO) quantum chromodynamics (QCD) approximations, using the Laplace transform method and then computed the proton structure function in terms of the unpolarized parton distribution functions. Our analytical solutions for parton densities are in good agreement with those from CT14QED [Formula: see text] (Ref. 6) global parametrizations and APFEL (A PDF Evolution Library) [Formula: see text] (Ref. 4). We also compared the proton structure function, [Formula: see text], with the experimental data released by the ZEUS and H1 collaborations at HERA. There is a nice agreement between them in the range of low and high [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text].