Color dipoles and k_t factorization for nuclei

Abstract

We discuss applications of the color dipole approach to hard processes on nuclei. We focus on the relation to k_t--factorisation and the role of a nuclear unintegrated gluon distribution in single-- and two-- particle inclusive spectra in \gamma^*A and pA collisions. Linear k_t factorisation is broken for a wide class of observables, which we exemplify on the case of heavy quark p_t--spectra.

Comments: 4 pp., 1 eps-fig. Talk given at 12th International Workshop on Deep Inelastic Scattering (DIS 2004), Strbske Pleso, Slovakia, 14-18 Apr 2004