Geometric scaling in diffractive deep inelastic scattering
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-11-11 v2
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 Q^2*x^\lambda, has been argued to be a manifestation of the saturation regime of QCD and of the saturation scale Q^2_s(x) x^{-\lambda}. 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.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0606079,
title = {Geometric scaling in diffractive deep inelastic scattering},
author = {C. Marquet and L. Schoeffel},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0606079},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
9 pages, 3 figures, references added, version to appear in PLB