We present the first evaluation of color dipole cross section from experimental data on diffractive photo- and electroproduction of vector mesons. The dipole-size and energy dependence of the found dipole cross section is consistent with expectations from the BFKL dynamics.
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9604419,
title = {Color Dipole Systematics of Diffractive Photo- and Electroproduction of Vector Mesons},
author = {J. Nemchik and N. N. Nikolaev and E. Predazzi and B. G. Zakharov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9604419},
year = {2016}
}