Review of different approaches to understanding the phenomenon of diffraction

1999/10/04 by A. Hebecker, Arthur Hebecker, Hebecker, A.
Engineering · Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #Ultrasonics and Acoustic Wave Propagation #X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography #hep-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/9910222

4 pages LaTeX, talk at the Int. Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics (EPS-HEP 99), Tampere, Finland, July 15-21, 1999

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Abstract

This brief review of hard diffraction is focussed on the theory of the diffractive structure function F₂^D. Some aspects of diffractive vector meson production and of diffractive processes in hadron-hadron collisions are also discussed.

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