DIFFRACTION 2002: Interpretation of the New Diffractive Phenomena in Quantum Chromodynamics and in the S-Matrix Theory

Diffractive physics in CDF — Run 2.- Diffraction at the Tevatron in perspective.- Diffraction at HERA: inclusive final states and exclusive vector meson production.- Exclusive processes at intermediate energies: HERMES results and prospects.- Overview of the COMPETE program.- Forward observables at RHIC, the Tevatron Run II and the LHC.- Consequences of the t-channel unitarity for the interaction of real and virtual photons at high energies.- Dispersion relations and inconsistency of ? data.- Vector meson photoproduction in the soft dipole pomeron model framework.- Three-component pomeron in high energy elastic scattering.- Low-energy diffraction; a direct-channel point of view: the background.- Generalized distribution amplitudes: new tools to study hadrons’ structure and interactions.- Investigation of quark-hadron duality: the model for nucleon resonance form factors.- QCD hydrodynamics for LHC and RHIC.- Nuclear collision description in terms of the Ginzburg-Landau model.- Soft component of photon wave function in the transition ?*(Q12)?*(Q22) ? Quark — anti-quark meson at moderate virtualities.- The puzzle of hyperon polarization.- Multiparticle dynamics of hadron diffraction.- High-energy elastic scattering and nucleon structure.- High density QCD, saturation and diffractive DIS.- DGLAP and BFKL equations in supersymmetric gauge theories.- Justification of the BFKL approach in the NLA.- Fulfillment of the strong bootstrap condition.- Reggeized gluon interaction.- Jet vertex in the next-to-leading log(s) approximation.- The QCD coupling behavior in the infrared region.- Single-spin asymmetry in pion production in polarized proton-proton collisions and odderon.- Leading particles and diffractive spectra in the interacting gluon model.- The kTfactorization phenomenology of the inelastic J/? production at HERA.- Author index.- List of Contributors.