Abstract
We discuss the phenomenological extraction of the leading j-plane singularity from singlet structure functions Fs estimated at small x. Using a saddle point method we show that [Formula: see text] is a suitable observable for this purpose in the region x≤10−2. As an application, we confront and distinguish in a model-independent way structure function parametrizations coming from two different QCD evolution equations, namely the Lipatov (or BFKL) equation and the Gribov-Lipatov-Altarelli-Parisi (or GLAP) equation. Recent results on the proton structure function F2 at HERA are discussed in this framework.
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