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Geometric scaling in diffractive deep inelastic scattering

C. Marquet, L. Schoeffel

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/0606079

Abstract

The geometric scaling property observed in the HERA data at small x, that the deep inelastic scattering (DIS) total cross-section is a function of only the variable Q2*xλ, has been argued to be a manifestation of the saturation regime of QCD and of the saturation scale Q2s(x) x-λ. We show that this implies a similar scaling in the context of diffractive DIS and we observe, for several diffractive observables, that the experimental data from HERA confirm the expectations of this scaling.

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