We study how f
actoriz
ation bre
aking ch
anges when going from diffr
active deep inel
astic sc
attering to diffr
active photoproduction of dijets. These processes offer
a sensitive probe of the interpl
ay of soft
and h
ard mech
anisms in QCD. We demonstr
ate th
at unit
arity effects
are
alre
ady import
ant in the gluon distribution for
x
align=center border=0 SRC=/images/glyphs/BKF.GIF>10−4, for quite
a wide r
ange of
Q2.