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 Qs2 (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.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 471-477 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics |
| Volume | 639 |
| Issue number | 5 |
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| Publication status | Published - 17 Aug 2006 |
| Externally published | Yes |