Coulomb corrections to DIS off heavy nuclei

An essential part of experimental program at the future Electron Ion Collider is the study of the nuclear structure and dynamics at low $x$. DIS at low $x$ is characterized by large longitudinal coherence length that by far exceeds radii of heavy nuclei. The coherent behavior is essential feature of the nuclear matter at low $x$. This pertains not only to the strong interactions, but also to electromagnetic ones. Coherent interactions of a projectile with nucleons in a heavy nucleus are characterized by parameters $α_s^2 A^{1/3}\sim 1$ and $αZ\sim 1$ in strong and electromagnetic interactions respectively. Contributions exhibiting non-trivial dependence on $αZ$ are called the Coulomb corrections. We compute the Coulomb corrections to the cross sections of the semi-inclusive and diffractive DIS. We show that they violate the geometric scaling in a wide range of photon virtualities and is weakly $x$-independent. In heavy nuclei at low $Q^2$ the Coulomb correction to the total and diffractive cross sections is about 20% and 40% correspondingly.

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