Relying on previous results, that link entanglement entropy and parton distribution functions in deep inelastic scattering, and focusing on the small Bjorken scaling region we present here indications that gluon shadowing might indeed be explained as due to a depletion of the entanglement entropy, between observed and unobserved degrees of freedom, per nucleon within a nucleus, with respect to the free nucleon. We apply to gluon shadowing the general Page approach to the calculation of the entanglement entropy in bipartite systems, giving physical motivations of the results.
Entanglement entropy production in deep inelastic scattering
