Geometric scaling for the total γ*p cross section in the low x region

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Stasto, AM
Golec-Biernat, K
Kwiecinski, J
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[1] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sezione Firenze, I-50125 Florence, Italy
[2] H Niewodniczanski Inst Nucl Phys, Dept Theoret Phys, PL-31342 Krakow, Poland
[3] Univ Hamburg, Inst Theoret Phys 2, D-22761 Hamburg, Germany
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.596
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O4 [物理学];
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We observe that the saturation model of deep inelastic scattering predicts a geometric scaling of the total gamma *p cross section in the region of small Bjorken variable x. The geometric scaling in this case means that the cross section is a function of only one dimensionless variable tau = Q(2)R(0)(2)(x), where the function R-0(x) decreases with decreasing x. We show that the experimental data from HERA in the region x < 0.01 confirm the expectations of this scaling over a very broad region of Q(2). We suggest that the geometric scaling is more general than the saturation model.
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