https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-008-0844-7
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Nuclear DVCS at small x using color-dipole phenomenology
Centro de Ciências Exatas e Tecnológicas, Universidade Federal do Pampa Campus de Bagé, Rua Carlos Barbosa, CEP, 96400-970, Bagé, RS, Brazil
* e-mail: magnus@if.ufrgs.br
Received:
21
October
2008
Revised:
25
November
2008
Published online:
9
January
2009
Using the high-energy color-dipole formalism, we study the coherent and incoherent nuclear DVCS process, γ * A→γ X, in the small-x regime. We consider simple models for the elementary dipole–hadron scattering amplitude that capture the main features of the dependence on atomic number A, on energy and on momentum transfer t. Using the amplitudes obtained we make predictions for the nuclear DVCS cross section at the photon level in collider kinematics.
© Springer-Verlag , 2009
