DIFFRACTION 2016

The Workshop will cover the following topics:

1. Experimental results and prospects

  • Forward physics in hadron-hadron collisions
    • diffraction at hadron colliders (LHC, RHIC, Tevatron)
    • central exclusive production at LHC, RHIC and Tevatron
    • forward physics at the LHC
    • soft diffraction at the LHC
    • gamma-p and gamma-gamma collisions at hadron colliders
  • Low-x physics at LHC
  • Results from LHC
  • Diffraction in e-p collisions
    • inclusive DIS: total cross sections, structure functions, heavy flavors
    • inclusive diffraction and dijets in DIS
    • hard diffractive photoproduction
    • exclusive final states in diffractive DIS (vector mesons, DVCS, etc.)
  • Heavy ion collisions at RHIC
  • Ultraperipheral collisions
  • New results on spin physics
  • Future of hadronic and high-energy nuclear physics: physics at electron-positron, electron-gamma and electron-ion future colliders
     

2. Phenomenological approaches

  • Diffraction in hadron-hadron collisions
    • single and double diffraction dissociation
    • multi-gap diffraction
    • diffractive production at forward rapidities of heavy mesons, Drell-Yan dileptons, gauge bosons and Higgs
    • phenomenology of gap survival probability
    • Monte Carlo for soft processes
  • Diffraction in DIS
    • inclusive DIS, structure functions and partonic densities
    • inclusive diffractive DIS
    • vector meson production
    • generalized parton distributions
    • DVCS
  • Saturation and evolution
  • Analyticity/duality models of inclusive/diffractive reactions; Pomeron trajectory
  • Odderon/Pomeron interference
  • Phenomenology of diffraction off nuclei
  • QCD studies of nuclear collisions
  • Spin and polarization physics
     

3. Progress in the theory

  • Perturbative QCD and factorization issues
  • Leading-twist diffraction and the breakdown of PQCD factorization theorems
  • Leading-twist diffractive DIS and nuclear shadowing
  • Non-universal antishadowing
  • Progress in AdS/QCD and related topics
  • Diffractive dijet, hadrons light-front wavefunction from AdS/QCD, and color transparency
  • New results in the BFKL physics
  • New results within the Color Glass Condensate model
  • New results in the color dipole/kt-factorization approach
  • Diffraction from non-perturbative QCD
  • Prospects in spin physics