Nuclear Shadowing and the Proton Structure Function at Small x

dc.creatorKopeliovich, Boris
dc.creatorPovh, Bogdan
dc.date1995-04-24
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T03:57:33Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T03:57:33Z
dc.descriptionA new scaling variable is introduced in terms of which nuclear shadowing in deep-inelastic scattering is universal, i.e. independent of $A$, $Q^2$ and $x$. This variable can be interpreted as a measure of the number of gluons probed by the hadronic fluctuations of a virtual photon during their lifetime. According to recent data from the H1 and ZEUS experiments, the gluon density in a proton rises steeply as $x$ tends to zero. So nuclei which in the infinite momentum frame have a large surface density of gluons model at larger $x$ values what we expect for the proton at much smaller $x$. Using experimental information on nuclear shadowing we predict the unitarity corrections to the proton structure function at small $x$ and extract the bare Pomeron intercept.
dc.description9 pages, LATEX, 3 uuencoded figures
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9504380
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9504380
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/45469
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenology
dc.titleNuclear Shadowing and the Proton Structure Function at Small x
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