COMMENTS ON PARTON SATURATION AT SMALL x IN LARGE NUCLEI
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چکیده
It is argued that the gluon density introduced by A.Mueller [5] in relation to the saturation phenomenon is different from the standardly defined one, which turned out to have a soliton-like form in the numerical calculations. It is shown that A.Mueller’s densities obtained from the latter possess the same saturation properties as originally predicted.
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