Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2001-09-21
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Invited talk presented at the 9th Blois Workshop On Elastic And Diffractive Scattering, Pruhonice, Prague, Czech Republic
Scientific paper
The diffractive dissociation of a hadron at high energies, by either Coulomb or Pomeron exchange, has a natural description in QCD as the materialization of the projectile's light-cone wavefunctions; in particular, the diffractive dissociation of a meson, baryon, or photon into high transverse momentum jets measures the shape and other features of the projectile's distribution amplitude. Diffractive dissociation can thus test fundamental properties of QCD, including color transparency and intrinsic charm. All of these effects have an impact on exclusive decays of $B$ mesons and the study of $CP$ violation. I also discuss recent work which shows that the structure functions measured in deep inelastic lepton scattering are affected by final-state rescattering, thus modifying their connection to light-cone probability distributions. In particular, the shadowing of nuclear structure functions is due to destructive interference effects from leading-twist diffraction of the virtual photon, physics not included in the nuclear light-cone wavefunctions.
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