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

@article{Forshaw1999ExtractingTD,
  title={Extracting the dipole cross-section from photo- and electro-production total cross-section data},
  author={Jeffrey R. Forshaw and G. R. Kerley and Graham Shaw},
  journal={Physical Review D},
  year={1999},
  volume={60},
  pages={074012}
}
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. 
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