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We consider the flavour non-singlet Reggeon within the context of perturbative QCD. This consists of ladders built out of “reggeized” quarks. We propose a method for the numerical solution of the integro-differential equation for the amplitude describing the exchange of such a Reggeon. The solution is known to have a sharp rise at low values of Bjorken-x when applied to non-singlet quantities in deep-inelastic scattering. We show that when the running of the coupling is taken into account this sharp rise is further enhanced, although the \(Q^2\) dependence is suppressed by the introduction of the running coupling. We also investigate the effects of simulating non-perturbative physics by introducing a constituent mass for the soft quarks and an effective mass for the soft gluons exchanged in the t-channel.
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Received: 30 June 1999 / Published online: 16 November 1999
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Griffiths, S., Ross, D. Studying the perturbative Reggeon. Eur. Phys. J. C 12, 277–286 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/s100529900240
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s100529900240