Extracting the dipole cross-section from photo- and electro-production total cross-section data

TL;DR

This paper presents a method to extract the dipole-proton cross-section at high energies using photo- and electro-production data, constrained by photon dissociation ratios, advancing understanding of dipole interactions.

Contribution

It introduces a novel extraction technique for the dipole cross-section from experimental total cross-section data, incorporating photon dissociation constraints.

Findings

Successfully extracted the dipole cross-section from experimental data.

Demonstrated the method's consistency with known theoretical constraints.

Provided new insights into high-energy dipole-proton interactions.

Abstract

We report on a successful attempt to extract the cross-section for the high-energy scattering of colour dipoles of fixed transverse size off protons using electroproduction and photoproduction total cross-section data, subject to the constraint provided by the ratio of the overall photon dissociation cross-section to the total cross-section.