DIFFRACTION 2002: Interpretation of the New Diffractive Phenomena in Quantum Chromodynamics and in the S-Matrix Theory

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• Diffractive physics in CDF — Run 2.
• Diffraction at the Tevatron in perspective.
• Diffraction at HERA: inclusive final states and exclusive vector meson production.
• Exclusive processes at intermediate energies: HERMES results and prospects.
• Overview of the COMPETE program.
• Forward observables at RHIC, the Tevatron Run II and the LHC.
• Consequences of the t-channel unitarity for the interaction of real and virtual photons at high energies.
• Dispersion relations and inconsistency of ? data.
• Vector meson photoproduction in the soft dipole pomeron model framework.
• Three-component pomeron in high energy elastic scattering.
• Low-energy diffraction; a direct-channel point of view: the background.
• Generalized distribution amplitudes: new tools to study hadrons’ structure and interactions.
• Investigation of quark-hadron duality: the model for nucleon resonance form factors.
• QCD hydrodynamics for LHC and RHIC.
• Nuclear collision description in terms of the Ginzburg-Landau model.
• Soft component of photon wave function in the transition ?*(Q12)?*(Q22) ? Quark — anti-quark meson at moderate virtualities.
• The puzzle of hyperon polarization.
• Multiparticle dynamics of hadron diffraction.
• High-energy elastic scattering and nucleon structure.
• High density QCD, saturation and diffractive DIS.
• DGLAP and BFKL equations in supersymmetric gauge theories.
• Justification of the BFKL approach in the NLA.
• Fulfillment of the strong bootstrap condition.
• Reggeized gluon interaction.
• Jet vertex in the next-to-leading log(s) approximation.
• The QCD coupling behavior in the infrared region.
• Single-spin asymmetry in pion production in polarized proton-proton collisions and odderon.
• Leading particles and diffractive spectra in the interacting gluon model.
• The kTfactorization phenomenology of the inelastic J/? production at HERA.
• Author index.
• List of Contributors.