1999/09/30 by M. Wusthoff, A. D. Martin · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/0954-3899/25/12/201
published as J.Phys.G25:R309-R344,1999 · 39 pages, 14 figures, LaTeX, new references added and some discussion clarified
arxiv created 1999/10/05 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30
We review the application of perturbative QCD to diffractive processes. We introduce the two gluon exchange model to describe diffractive qq(bar) and qq(bar)g production in deep inelastic scattering. We study the triple Regge limit and briefly consider multiple gluon exchange. We discuss diffractive vector meson production at HERA both at t = 0 and large |t|. We demonstrate the non-factorization of diffractive processes at hadron colliders.