inclusive diffraction off nuclei in the dipole picture
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Inclusive diffraction off nuclei in the dipole picture. Cyrille Marquet. Theory Unit, CERN. Inclusive diffraction in DIS. Key features of data. diffractive over inclusive ratio. geometric scaling. C.M. and Schoeffel (2006). at fixed , the scaling variable is. Recent data. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Inclusive diffraction off nuclei in the dipole picture
Cyrille Marquet
Theory Unit, CERN
Inclusive diffraction in DIS
Key features of datadiffractive over inclusive ratio
at fixed , the scaling variable is
C.M. and Schoeffel (2006)geometric scaling
Recent data
Diffraction in the dipole picture
contributions of the different final statesto the diffractive structure function:
at small : quark-antiquark-gluon
at intermediate : quark-antiquark (T)
at large : quark-antiquark (L)
Nuclear diffractive structure functions
Kowalski, Lappi, C.M. and Venugopalan (2008)
From protons to nuclei
averaged with the Woods-Saxon distribution
position of the nucleons
• the dipole-nucleus cross-section Kowalski and Teaney (2003)
in diffraction, averaging at the level of the amplitudecorresponds to a final state where the nucleus is intact
averaging at the cross-section levelallows the breakup of the nucleus into nucleons
• the Woods-Saxon averaging
The ratio F2D,A / F2
D,p
quark-antiquark-gluon
quark-antiquark (T)
quark-antiquark (L)
> 1 and ~ const.
> 1 and decreases with β
< 1 and ~ const.
Auas a function of β :
• for each contribution
the quark-antiquark-gluon contribution dominates
• nuclear effects
enhancement at large
the quark-antiquark contribution dominates
the ratio is almost constant and decreases with A
suppression at small
Diffraction and nuclear breakup
the quark-antiquark contributionsfor β values at which they dominate
• as a function of Q2
in this study the breakup of the nucleus into nucleons is allowed
• as a function of A
for a gold nucleus, the diffractive structure functionis 15 % bigger when allowing breakup into nucleons
the proportion of incoherent diffraction decreases with A