On the Nonperturbative Foundations of the Dipole Picture

Abstract

Starting from a genuinely nonperturbative formulation of photon-proton scattering we discuss which approximations and assumptions are required to obtain the dipole picture of high energy scattering.

Comments: 6 pages, talk presented by C. Ewerz at the XIth International Conference on Elastic and Diffractive Scattering, Blois, May 2005