This book describes the underlying ideas and modern developments of Regge theory,
confronting the theory with quantum chromodynamics and a huge variety of experimental …

Different theoretical methods used for the description of diffractive processes in small-x deep
inelastic scattering are reviewed. The semiclassical approach, where a partonic fluctuation …

We review the application of perturbative QCD to diffractive processes. We introduce the two-
gluon exchange model to describe diffractive and production in deep inelastic scattering. We …

We derive an evolution equation describing the high energy behavior of the cross section for
the single diffractive dissociation in deep inelastic scattering on a hadron or a nucleus. The …

We investigate saturation effects in ep scattering as well as in ultraperipheral pA and AA
collisions at small x with four variants of the impact parameter dependent color dipole model …

We propose a new description of inclusive diffraction in deep inelastic scattering. The
diffractive structure functions are expressed in the dipole picture and contain heavy-quark …

The geometric scaling property observed in the HERA data at small x, that the deep inelastic
scattering (DIS) total cross-section is a function of only the variable Q2xλ, has been argued …

We review diffractive deep inelastic scattering (DIS) in the light of the collinear factorization
theorem. This theorem allows one to define diffractive parton distributions in the leading twist …

The total γ∗ γ∗ cross section is derived in the leading order QCD dipole picture of BFKL
dynamics, and compared with the one from two-gluon exchange. The double leading …

Combining the QCD dipole model with the Good-Walker picture, we formulate the diffractive
dissociation of a photon of virtuality Q 2 off a hadronic target, in the kinematical regime in …