DIFFRACTION 2008
International Workshop on Diffraction in High-Energy Physics
La Londe-les-MauresFranceSeptember 9-14, 2008
organized by:

Université de la Méditerranée et IN2P3 (FRANCE)DESY-Hamburg (GERMANY)
Università della Calabria (ITALY)
Temple University, Philadelphia (USA)

http://www.cs.infn.it/diff2008/
Conveners and Topics(BNL)

MartaRuspa(ZEUS Collab.)
I Diffraction in ep collisions◦ Inclusive DIS: total cross sections, structure functions,heavy flavors◦ Inclusive diffraction and dijets in DIS◦ Exclusive final states in diffractive DIS (vector mesons,DVCS, etc.)

I Heavy ion collisions at RHIC
I Phenomenology of diffraction off nuclei
I QCD studies of nuclear collisions
I New physics via QCD processes at LHC

Igor Ivanov (Univ. of Liegi)
AlessandroBravar(Univ. of Geneva)
I Forward physics in hadron-hadron collisions◦ Diffraction at hadron colliders◦ Results on central exclusive production at Tevatron◦ Central exclusive production and forward physics projects
at the LHC◦ Gamma-p and gamma-gamma collisions at hadronic colliders◦ Low-x Physics at LHCRistoOrava(Univ. of Helsinki)

I Diffraction in DIS◦ Inclusive DIS, structure functions and partonic densities◦ Inclusive diffractive DIS◦ Vector meson production◦ Generalized parton distributions◦ DVCS◦ Analyticity/duality models of inclusive/diffractive reactions;
Pomeron trajectory

AgustinSabioVera(CERN)

I Prospects for QCD studies in the post-LHC era

I Perturbative QCD and factorization issues

I High-energy QCD and astrophysics

I Progress in AdS/QCD and related topics

I Special topic: First results from LHC

I New results in the BFKL physics
I New results in the color dipole/kt-factorizationapproach
Zein-EddineMeziani(Univ. of Temple)
AlexeiProkudin(INFN Torino)
I New results on spin physics (experiment)
I Spin and polarization physics (phenomenology)
I Prospects in spin physics (theory)

LarryMcLerran(BNL)I New results within the Color Glass Condensate

approach
I Saturation and evolution

BorisKopeliovich(Univ. of Valparaiso)

International Advisory Committee
NovaraM. Arneodo
Hamburg
J. Bartels
SLAC
S. Brodsky
Firenze
M. Ciafaloni
CERN
A. de Roeck
Novosibirsk
V.S. Fadin
Cosenza
R. Fiore
New York
K. Goulianos
BNL
W. GurynParis
M. Haguenauer
Kiev
L.L. Jenkovszky
Moscow
A.B. Kaidalov
Valparaiso
B. Kopeliovich
AthensC. Ktorides
Cambridge
P.V. Landshoff
Tel Aviv
E. Levin
Tel Aviv
A. Levy
St. Petersburg
L.N. Lipatov
DESY
B. Löhr
MilanoG. Marchesini
New York
L. McLerranBirmingham
P. Newman
JülichN.N. Nikolaev
Helsinki
R. Orava
TorinoE. Predazzi
SaclayC. RoyonRio de Janeiro
A. Santoro

I Diffraction from non-perturbative QCD

I Diffraction in hadron-hadron colllisions◦ Single and double diffraction◦ Central production in double Pomeron exchange◦ Diffractive Higgs production at Tevatron and LHC◦ Phenomenology of rescattering corrections and gap survival
probability

Organizing Committee
Philadelphia
J. Soffer(Chair)
K. Borras
C. Bourrely
A. Bravar
I. Ivanov
A. Papa
E. Sauvan
C. Vallée

DESY
Marseille
GenèveLiège
Cosenza
CPPM, Marseille
CPPM, Marseille

If you wish to give a talk at the workshop, please contact the appropriate convener.

Address for correspondence to local organizing committee
DIFFRACTION 2008
Phone: +39 0984 496015 (or 496018)
c/o Alessandro PapaFax: +39 0984 494401
Dipartimento di Fisica
Università della Calabria
E-mail(s): diff2008@cs.infn.it
Ponte Bucci, cubo 31C
jsoffer@temple.edu
I-87036 Arcavacata di Rende (Cosenza)
Italy

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