Deep inelastic scattering at strong coupling from gauge/string duality: The saturation line

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2008, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Hatta, Y ^a   Iancu, E ^a   Mueller, A H ^b  

^a CEA SACLAY   (France)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Deep inelastic scattering; Gauge gravity correspondence; Parton model

Indexed keywords

EID: 38949105096     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2008/01/026     Document Type: Article

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