DIFFRACTION 2002: Interpretation of the New Diffractive Phenomena in Quantum Chromodynamics and in t

Preface. Diffractive physics in CDF - Run 2; M.G. Albrow. Diffraction at the Tevatron in perspective; K. Goulianos. Diffraction at HERA: inclusive final states and exclusive vector meson production; A.A. Savin. Exclusive processes at intermediate energies: HERMES results and prospects; A. Borissov. Overview of the COMPETE program; COMPETE Collaboration: V. Ezhela, Yu.V. Kuyanov, K.S. Lugovsky, V.S. Lugovsky, E.A. Razuvaev, M.Yu. Sapunov, N.P. Tkachenko, O.V. Zenin, K. Kang, M.R. Whalley, A. Lengyel, S.K. Kang, J.R. Cudell, E. Martynov, O. Selyugin, P. Gauron, B. Nicolescu. Forward observables at RHIC, the Tevatron Run II and the LHC; COMPETE Collaboration: J.R. Cudell, E. Martynov, K. Kang, V.V. Ezhela, Yu.V. Kuyanov, S.B. Lugovsky, E.A. Razuvaev, N.P. Tkachenko, P.Gauron, B. Nicolescu. Consequences of the t-channel unitarity for the interaction of real and virtual photons at high energies; E.S. Martynov, J.R. Cudell, G. Soyez.Dispersion relations and inconsistency of rho data; O.V. Selyugin. Vector meson photoproduction in the soft dipole pomeron model framework; A. Prokudin, E. Martynov, E. Predazzi. Three-component pomeron in high energy elastic scattering; Yu. Ilyin, A. Lengyel, Z. Tarics. Low-energy diffraction: a direct-channel point of view: the background; L.L. Jenkovszky, S.Yu. Kononenko, V.K. Magas. Generalized distribution amplitudes: new tools to study hadrons' structure and interactions; R. Fiore, A. Flachi, L.L. Jenkovszky, A. Lengyel, V.K. Magas. Investigation of quark-hadron duality: model for nucleon resonance form factors; V.V. Davydovskyy, B.V. Struminsky. QCD hydrodynamics for LHC and RHIC; L.P. Csernai, M.I. Gorenstein, V.K. Magas, D.D. Strottman. Nuclear collision description in terms of the Ginzburg-Landau model; L.F. Babichev, V.I. Kuvhinov, V.A. Shaparau, A.A. Bukach. Soft component of photon wave funcion; L.N. Dakhno. The puzzle of hyperon polarization; S.M. Troshin, S.N. Tyurin.Multiparticle dynamics of hadron diffraction; A.R. Malecki. High-energy elastic scattering and nucleon structure; V. Kundrat, M. Lokajicek. High density QCD, saturation and diffractive DIS; I.P. Ivanov, N.N. Nikolaev, W. Schäfer, B.G. Zakharov, V.R. Zoller. DGLAP and BFKL equations in supersymmetric gauge theories; A.V. Kotikov, L.N. Lipatov, V.N. Velizhanin. Justification of the BFKL approach in the NLA; V.S. Fadin. Fulfillment of the strong bootstrap condition; A. Papa. Reggeized gluon interaction; M. Kotsky. Jet vertex in the next-to-leading log(s) approximation; G.P. Vacca. The QCD coupling behavior in the infrared region; D.V. Shirkov. Single-spin asymmetry in pion production in polarized proton-proton collisions and the odderon; E.N. Antonov, E. Bartos, A. Ahmedov, E.A. Kuraev, E. Zemlyanaya. Leading particles and diffractive spectra in the interacting gluon model; F.O. Durães, F.S. Navarra, G. Wilk. The k&Tgr; factorization phenomenology of the inelastic J/ production at HERA; A.V. Lipatov, N.P. Zotov. Subject index. Author index. List of Contributors.