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Publications and source records attributed to G. R. Kerley.
We employ values of the colour dipole cross section extracted from electroproduction and photoproduction data to show that gluon saturation effects are not required by the current HERA data but will become important in the THERA energy region.
We explain why it is possible to formulate a wide variety of high energy (small-x) photon-proton processes in terms of a universal dipole cross section and compare and contrast various parameterizations of this function that exist in the literature.
We employ a parameterisation of the proton dipole cross section previously extracted from electroproduction and photoproduction data to predict the diffractive structure function F2D(3)(Q^2, beta, xpom). Comparison with HERA H1 data yields good agreement.