1997/04/22 by B. Z. Kopeliovich, Boris Kopeliovich, Bogdan Povh +2 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/s0370-2693(97)00654-0
published as Phys.Lett. B405 (1997) 361-366 · 12 pages of Latex, including 1 figure. Based on a talk presented by B.Z.K. at the Nevis Workshop on Leading Baryon Production, Columbia University, New York, February 1997
arxiv created 1997/04/22 · openalex publication_date 1997/07/01 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We argue that diffractive DIS, dominated by soft interactions, is probably the unique process which allows us to observe unitarity effects in DIS. Guided by a close analogy between the diffractive dissociation of a highly virtual photon and the elastic scattering of hadrons we propose a specific procedure to analyse the data in order to detect the onset of the unitarity limit. Lacking appropriate data, we use the predictions of a realistic model as an input for our analysis, to demonstrate that the output unitarity signal is sufficiently large to be detectable.