We extend a recently proposed dipole model which relates the virtual photon-proton cross section to the dipole-proton forward scattering amplitude in momentum space investigating the effects of the gluon number fluctuations. The model interpolates between well known asymptotic behaviours predicted by perturbative QCD from the Balitsky-Kovchegov equation, which describes the rapidity evolution of the dipole-proton scattering amplitude in the mean field approximation. The model was shown to be successful in describing the last HERA data for the case where the strong coupling constant αs is fixed, showing also some important advantages when compared with other dipole models - all of them in coordinate space - in the literature. Based on the fact that the fluctuations may be important in the small-x evolution and on recent results obtained in coordinate space beyond the mean field approximation, we use this model to parametrize the proton structure function and confront it to HERA data using the average (physical) amplitude - then including fluctuations - within the momentum space framework.

An alternative process is proposed for the diffractive Higgs boson production inspired in the Durham model, exploring it through the photon-proton interaction. In this sense, we estimate the production cross section of the Higgs boson, comparing some sets of parton distributions in the proton and confronting this results with those from other processes.

The rate for inclusive charm production in neutral current neutrino-nucleus interactions is calculated. The interaction of high energy neutrinos on hadron targets is an outstanding probe to test Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) and shed light in the understanding of the parton properties of hadron structure. We have considered the QCD color dipole picture for such an interaction and have in addition used parton saturation models. In particular, the dipole cross section is taken from recent phenomenology on deep inelastic scattering (DIS) at DESY-HERA. The theoretical predictions are compared to available theoretical predictions and experimental results from NuTeV detector at Fermilab. Moreover, we compute the relative rate of the associated cross section in deep inelastic neutrino-nucleus interactions, σ(ccv)σNCtot, from CHORUS Collaboration. As a byproduct, a QCD analysis of the F2, F L and F3 structure functions for the neutral current case also is presented.

In this work we investigate the high density QCD system through the dilepton production. First, the dilepton production in the color dipole approach is investigated, studing perturbative unitarity corrections to the dipole cross section and its consequence in the transverse momentum distribution of the dileptons at RHIC and LHC energies. Second, the dilepton production in the context of the Color Glass Condensate is investigated. The transverse momentum distribution and the rapidity distribution are investigated to dilepton production at RHIC and LHC energies in this framework.

It has been shown that the transition to the saturation regime of high energy QCD is similar to the formation of the front of a traveling wave. In particular, it can be verified that Balitsky-Kovchegov (BK) evolution equation reduces, after some approximations, to the nonlinear Fisher and Kolmogorov-Petrovsky-Piscounov (FKPP) equation, well-known from statistical physics. In these proceedings, based on the current knowledge of the asymptotic solutions of the BK equation, we propose a parametrization for the forward scattering amplitude which interpolates between the traveling wave solution and the saturation region.

In this contribution we present an exploratory QCD analysis of the neutrino structure functions in charged current DIS using the color dipole formalism. The corresponding dipole cross sections are taken from recent phenomenological and theoretical studies in deep inelastic inclusive production, including nuclear shadowing corrections. The theoretical predictions are compared to the available experimental results in the small-x region.