Deep inelastic scattering in the dipole picture at next-to-leading order
Ducloue, B., Hänninen, H., Lappi, T., & Zhu, Y. (2017). Deep inelastic scattering in the dipole picture at next-to-leading order. Physical Review D, 96 (9), 094017. doi:10.1103/physrevd.96.094017
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We study quantitatively the importance of the recently derived next-to-leading-order corrections to the
deep inelastic scattering structure functions at small x in the dipole formalism. We show that these
corrections can be significant and depend on the factorization scheme used to resum large logarithms of
energy into renormalization group evolution with the Balitsky-Kovchegov equation. This feature is similar
to what has recently been observed for single inclusive forward hadron production. Using a factorization
scheme consistent with the one recently proposed for the single inclusive cross section, we show that it is
possible to obtain meaningful results for the deep inelastic scattering cross sections.