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Diffraction and Low-x 2026

6–12 Sept 2026
Hotel Akti Taygetos
Europe/Rome timezone

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Sessions and conveners

  • Low x, PDFs in proton

    Conveners: Amanda Cooper Sarjar, Patrick Connor

    PDFs at low and high x

  • Low x, PDFs, and saturation in heavy ions

    Conveners: Gian Michele Innocenti, Edmond Iancu

    New results within the Color Glass Condensate model
    Saturation and evolution
    Saturation in heavy ion

  • Diffraction in proton-proton and nucleus-nucleus collisions

    Conveners: Michal Praszalowicz, Antonio Vilela Pereira

    Soft diffraction at the hadron colliders
    Total and inelastic cross section measurements
    Odderon physics
    Central exclusive production of low-mass particles
    Glueball production
    Forward physics at the LHC
    Forward detectors
    Phenomenology of gap survival probability
    Monte Carlo for soft processes
    Heavy ion collisions at RHIC and EIC
    Phenomenology of diffraction off nuclei
    Hard diffraction at the hadron colliders
    Monte Carlo for hard processes

  • UPC and gamma gamma physics

    Conveners: Cyrille Marquet, Zaochen Ye

    Gamma-p and gamma-gamma collisions at hadron colliders
    Beyond standard model and photon exchange processes
    Ultraperipheral collisions

  • Spin Physics

    Conveners: Barbara Badelek, Umberto d'Alesio

    New results on spin physics
    Spin and polarization physics
    Prospects in spin physics
    Generalized parton distributions
    Transverse momentum dependent PDFs

  • QCD and hadronic final states

    Conveners: Christophe Royon, Dimitri Colferai

    pQCD predictions
    Jet cross sections and algorithms
    Jet substructures
    Multiplicities
    Vector meson, pion, etc. productions
    Formal developments in QCD (resummation, factorization, evolution)
    New results in the BFKL physics
    New results in the color dipole/kt-factorization approach
    Progress in AdS/QCD, integrability and related topics

  • Diffraction in ep and eA

    Conveners: Janusz Chwastowski, Sanjin Benic

    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.)
    Analyticity/duality models of inclusive/diffractive reactions; Pomeron trajectory
    Diffraction at the EIC
    Forward detectors and Roman pots