Saturation and the Ratio sigmadiff/sigmatot in an electron-ion collider

Abstract

In this paper we investigate the saturation physics in diffractive deep inelastic electron-ion scattering. We estimate the energy and nuclear dependence of the ratio σ di f f /σ tot . We show that saturation physics predicts that up to 37 % of the events observed at eRHIC should be diffractive. We have also studied how our results depend on the prescription to extend the saturation scale to the nuclear case.

Summary talk for ISMD 06

“…Kugeratski presented a theoretical analysis of the diffractive data within a saturation model [16] based on ideas related to the Color Glass Condensate [3]. She argued that diffractive scattering on nuclei provide sensitive tests of these ideas.…”