Dipole-pion cross section in the saturation regime

Abstract

We analyse HERA data on leading neutron production in one-pion exchange approximation. The dipole-pion cross section as function of transverse separation $\bf r$ at small Bjorken variable $\beta$ is parameterized within the bSat model. The evolution of the dipole-pion cross section is performed applying the Laplace transformation technique. We demonstrate that geometric scaling for the dipole-pion cross section hold approximately within a wide kinematic region of $rQ_s$. The geometrical scaling is improved applying the evolution method. That is compared with the constituent quark picture and the color dipole BFKL expansion. The cross section saturates at large dipole sizes.

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