Saturation in diffractive deep inelastic scattering

We successfully describe the DESY HERA data on diffractive deep inelastic scattering using a saturation model which has been applied in our earlier analysis of the inclusive $\mathrm{ep}$-scattering data. No further parameters are needed. Saturation already turned out to be essential in describing the transition from large to small values of $Q^2$ in inclusive scattering. It is even more important for diffractive processes and naturally leads to a constant ratio of the diffractive versus inclusive cross sections. We present an extensive discussion of our results as well as detailed comparison with data.