Constraining the free parameter of the high parton density effects

The high parton density effects are strongly dependent of the spatial gluon distribution within the proton, with radius R, which cannot be derived fro m perturbative QCD. In this paper we assume that the unitarity corrections are present in the HERA kinematical region and constrain the value of R usi ng the data for the proton structure function and its slope. We obtain that the gluons are not distributed uniformly in the whole proton disc, but beh ave as concentrated in smaller regions. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.