Multipomeron Cuts and Hard Processes on Nuclei

Abstract

With nuclear targets comes a new scale into the pQCD description of hard processes - the saturation scale. In the saturation regime, the familiar linear k_\perp-factorization breaks down and must be replaced by a nonlinear k_\perp-factorization, which accounts for absorptive and multiple scattering corrections to the hard process. Predictions for partial cross sections corresponding to a fixed number of cut Pomerons (the topological cross sections) can be obtained in a surprisingly straightforward manner. We discuss some applications to deep inelastic scattering.

Comments: 4 pages, 2 figures, a talk given at Diffraction 2008: International Workshop On Diffraction In High Energy Physics; 9-14 Sep 2008, La Londe-les-Maures, France