Parton saturation at small x and in large nuclei

Quark and gluon distributions in the light-cone wavefunction of a high energy hadron or nucleus are calculated in the saturation regime. One loop calculations are performed explicitly using the equivalence between the parton distribution in the light-cone wavefunction and the production distribution of that parton in a current-nucleon (nucleus) scattering. We argue that, except for some overall numerical factors, the Weizsacker-Williams wavefunction correctly gives the physics of the gluon distribution in a light-cone wavefunction. (C) 1999 Published by Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.