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Inclusive diffraction off nuclei in the dipole picture Cyrille Marquet Theory Unit, CERN

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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 Presentation

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Page 1: Inclusive  diffraction  off nuclei  in  the dipole picture

Inclusive diffraction off nuclei in the dipole picture

Cyrille Marquet

Theory Unit, CERN

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Inclusive diffraction in DIS

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Key features of datadiffractive over inclusive ratio

at fixed , the scaling variable is

C.M. and Schoeffel (2006)geometric scaling

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Recent data

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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)

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Nuclear diffractive structure functions

Kowalski, Lappi, C.M. and Venugopalan (2008)

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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

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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

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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