The Workshop will cover the following topics:
1. Experimental results and prospects
- Inclusive DIS: total cross sections, structure functions, heavy flavor
contributions
- Diffractive DIS: diffractive structure functions
- Exclusive final states in diffractive DIS (vector mesons, DVCS, etc.)
- Diffraction in hadron-hadron collisions
- Diffraction at intermediate energies
2. Phenomenological approaches to diffraction
- Diffraction in hadron-hadron colllisions
- single and double diffraction
- double Pomeron exchange; phenomenology of rapidity gaps
- diffractive Higgs boson production
- limits of factorization in diffraction
- saturation of partonic densities
- interplay between soft and hard physics in diffraction
- analyticity/unitarity models of inclusive/diffractive reactions; Pomeron
trajectory
- phenomenology of diffraction off nuclei
- phenomenology of gamma-gamma collisions
- spin physics in diffraction
3. Progress in theoretical description of diffraction
- perturbative QCD at high energies
- new results in the collinear factorization approach
- vector meson production
- skewed parton distributions
- DVCS
- new results in the BFKL physics
- Progress in next-to-leading order BFKL
- Vector meson production from BFKL
- new results in the color dipole/kt-factorization approach
- DGLAP vs. BFKL vs. non-linear evolution equations
- diffraction from non-perturbative QCD
The proceedings of the Workshop will be published and a copy of
them will be sent to all the participants.
The fee is fixed in 300,00 Euro for the participants to the
Workshop and in 100 Euro for their companions. The payment
can be done only by cash in Euro upon arrival.
Partial financial support will be available for a limited number
of participants. Applicants should send their request by e-mail.