Experimental aspects of diffraction in hadronic physics

TL;DR

This paper reviews key experimental results on hadronic diffraction from HERA and Tevatron, discusses new insights into nucleon structure, and explores challenges for diffraction studies at the LHC, including Higgs discovery.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive review of diffraction phenomena and discusses future challenges in high-energy physics experiments at the LHC.

Findings

Summarizes important diffractive results from HERA and Tevatron.

Discusses nucleon tomography and its implications.

Outlines challenges for diffraction studies at the LHC.

Abstract

The most important results on subnuclear diffractive phenomena obtained at HERA and Tevtaron are reviewed and new issues in nucleon tomography are discussed. Some challenges for understanding diffraction at the LHC, including the discovering of the Higgs boson, are outlined.