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We model effects of color fluctuations (CFs) in the light-cone photon wave function and for the first time make predictions for the distribution over the number of wounded nucleons ? in the inelastic photon- nucleus scattering. We show that CFs lead to a dramatic enhancement of this distribution at ? = 1 and large ? > 10. We also study the implications of different scales and CFs in the photon wave function on the total transverse energy sum E_T and other observables in inelastic ? A scattering with different triggers. Our predictions can be tested in proton-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus ultraperipheral collisions at the LHC and will help to map CFs, whose first indications have already been observed at the LHC.

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