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High Density QCD, Saturation and Diffractive DIS

I. P. Ivanov, N. N. Nikolaev, W. Schäfer, B. G. Zakharov, V. R. Zoller

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/0212176

Abstract

We review a consistent description of the fusion and saturation of partons in the Lorentz-contracted ultrarelativistic nuclei in terms of a nuclear attenuation of color dipole states of the photon and collective Weizsäcker-Williams (WW) gluon structure function of a nucleus. Diffractive DIS provides a basis for the definition of the WW nuclear glue. The point that all observables for DIS off nuclei are uniquely calculable in terms of the nuclear WW glue amounts to a new form of factorization in the saturation regime.

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