Ioffe Times in DIS from a Dipole Model Fit
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2015-05-14 v1
Abstract
We present a study of Ioffe times in deep inelastic electron-proton scattering. We deduce 'experimental' Ioffe-time distributions from the small-x HERA data as described by a particular colour-dipole-model fit. We show distributions for three representative gamma*-proton c.m. energies W and various values of the photon virtuality Q^2. These distributions are rather broad for transversely and very narrow for longitudinally polarised virtual photons. The Ioffe times for W=150 GeV, for example, range from around 1000 fm for Q^2=1 GeV^2 to around 10 fm for Q^2=100 GeV^2. Based on our results we discuss consequences for the limitations of applicability of the dipole picture.
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@article{arxiv.0909.2434,
title = {Ioffe Times in DIS from a Dipole Model Fit},
author = {Carlo Ewerz and Andreas von Manteuffel and Otto Nachtmann},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0909.2434},
year = {2015}
}
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20 pages