Nuclear diffractive structure functions at high energies

Abstract

A future high-energy electron-ion collider would explore the non-linear weakly-coupled regime of QCD, and test the Color Glass Condensate (CGC) approach to high-energy scattering. Hard diffraction in deep inelastic scattering off nuclei will provide many fundamental measurements. In this work, the nuclear diffractive structure function F_{2,A}^D is predicted in the CGC framework, and the features of nuclear enhancement and suppression are discussed.

4 pages, 2 figures, Proceedings of the XLIIIrd Rencontres de Moriond on QCD and High Energy Interactions (Moriond08), La Thuile, Italy, March 8-15 2008