  The transverse momentum distribution of soft hadrons and jets that accompany
central hard-scattering production at hadron colliders is of great importance,
since it has a direct bearing on the ability to separate new physics signals
from Standard Model backgrounds. We compare the predictions for the gluonic
k_t-distribution using two different approaches: resummed NLL BFKL and DGLAP
evolution. We find that as long as the initial and final virtualities (k_t)
along the emission chain are not too close to each other, the NLL resummed BFKL
results do not differ significantly from those obtained using standard DGLAP
evolution. The saturation momentum Q_s(x), calculated within the resummed BFKL
approach, grows with 1/x even slower than in the leading-order DGLAP case.
