Recent Progress in Understanding Quark and Gluon Distribution Functions for Large Nuclei at Small x

Abstract

I discuss the problem of computing the structure functions for very heavy nuclei at small Bjorken x. The approximations used in this description are physically motivated, and recent computations reviewed.

Comments: LATEX, 14pp, TPI-MINN-93/56-T, NUC-MINN-93/31-T, UMN-TH-1228/93