Inclusive Diffraction ∗

Diffraction at HERA, the Tevatron and the LHC

In these lectures, we present and discuss the most recent results on inclusive diffraction from the HERA and Tevatron colliders and give the prospects for the future at the LHC. Of special interest is the exclusive production of Higgs boson and heavy objects (W , top, stop pairs) which will require a better understanding of diffractive events and the link between ep and hadronic colliders, as w...

Inclusive Diffraction at HERA

Inclusive Diffraction at Hera

New precision measurements of inclusive diffractive deep-inelastic ep scattering interactions, performed by the H1 and ZEUS collaborations at the HERA collider, are discussed. A new set of diffractive parton distributions, determined from recent high precision H1 data, is presented.

Combined analysis of diffractive and inclusive structure functions in the semiclassical framework

Small-x DIS is described as the scattering of a partonic fluctuation of the photon off a superposition of target color fields. Diffraction occurs if the emerging partonic state is in a color singlet. Introducing a specific model for the averaging over all relevant color field configurations, both diffractive and inclusive parton distributions at some low scale Q20 can be calculated. A conventio...

Lhc ∗

In these lectures, we present and discuss the most recent results on inclusive diffraction at the Tevatron collider and give the prospects at the LHC. We also describe the search for exclusive events at the Tevatron. Of special interest is the exclusive production of Higgs boson and heavy objects (W , top, stop pairs) at the LHC which will require precise measurements and analyses of inclusive ...

Inclusive diffraction and factorisation at HERA

In this article, recent measurements of diffraction in deep inelastic scattering are presented along with QCD fits to extract the partonic structure of the exchange. These so-called diffractive parton density functions can then be used in predictions for other processes to test factorisation in diffraction. This is an important verification of QCD and has significance for predicting exotic sign...