Diffraction and Low-x 2018

Scientific Programme

Diffraction in e-p and e-A collisions

Conveners: Jochen Bartels, Abhay Deshpande, Marta Ruspa

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

Diffraction and photon physics in hadron-hadron and heavy-ion collisions

Conveners: Valentina Avati, Alan Martin, Christina Mesropian, Boris Kopeliovich

Soft and hard diffraction at the hadron colliders
Total and inelastic cross section measurements
Odderon physics
Central exclusive production
Forward physics at the LHC
Forward detectors
Gamma-p and gamma-gamma collisions at hadron colliders
Low-x physics at LHC
Beyond standard model and photon exchange processes
Phenomenology of gap survival probability
Monte Carlo for soft and hard processes
Heavy ion collisions at RHIC and EIC
Phenomenology of diffraction off nuclei
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 parton saturation physics

Conveners: Victor Goncalves, Dmitry Ivanov, Timothy Raben

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 in the color dipole/kt-factorization approach
New results within the Color Glass Condensate model
Saturation and evolution
Diffraction from non-perturbative QCD

Low-x, PDFs and hadronic final state

Conveners: Amanda Cooper Sarkar, Paolo Gunnellini, Lech Szymanowski

PDFs at low and high x
Jet cross sections
Fat jets
Multiplicities
Vector meson, pion, etc. productions