%0 Journal Article %T Nuclear dependence of the saturation scale and its consequences for the electron-ion collider %A Gon£żalves %A V. P. %A Kugeratski %A M. S. %A Navarra %A F. S. %J Brazilian Journal of Physics %D 2007 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %R 10.1590/S0103-97332007000100034 %X we study the predictions of cgc physics for electron-ion collisions at high energies. the nucleus at high energies acts as an amplifier of saturation effects. we have investigated some observables, using a generalization for nuclear targets of the iancu-itakura-munier model, and our results indicate that the experimental analysis of these observables in the future electron-ion collider could discriminate between linear and saturation physics, as well as constrain the behavior of the saturation scale. %K electron-ion collisions %K saturation physics %K color dipole formalism. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0103-97332007000100034&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en