DIFFRACTION-2002

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DIFFRACTION 2002

Second International "Cetraro" Workshop
& NATO Advanced Research Workshop

The Workshop covers the following subjects:

1. Phenomenology of soft and hard diffractive processes in hadron-, photon-induced and nuclear collisions:
   • elastic scattering;
   • single and double diffraction; double Pomeron exchange;
   • analysis of cosmic ray data;
   • color evaporation mechanisms and models;
   • color transparency;
   • inelastic diffraction in gamma-gamma interactions.
2. Diffraction in Deep inelastic scattering (DIS):
   • survival of large rapidity gaps;
   • small-x structure functions;
   • DGLAP and BFKL evolution equations in DIS;
   • fracture functions;
   • skewed parton distributions;
   • final state interactions: jets; can diffraction shed light on the production of new particles?
   • deeply virtual Compton scattering;
   • leading baryon production.
3. Diffraction in QCD:
   • perturbative QCD in the next-to-leading order and the Pomeron intercept;
   • Pomeron from non-perturbative QCD;
   • QCD-based models for the Pomeron;
   • Pomeron trajectory and glueball spectroscopy.
4. Experimental results and predictions for future experiments:
   • HERA: H1 and Zeus results;
   • Photo- and electro-production of vector mesons;
   • Tevatron: CDF and D0 results;
   • future programs at HERA, LHC, RHIC and Tevatron.