Hard diffraction from small-size color sources

TL;DR

This paper explores how QCD factorization applies to diffractive hard processes involving small transverse size hadronic systems, aiming to understand the underlying QCD dynamics.

Contribution

It provides a theoretical framework for analyzing diffractive processes with small-size color sources within QCD factorization.

Findings

QCD factorization applies to small-size diffractive systems

Insights into the structure of small transverse size hadronic systems

Guidance for experimental studies of diffraction

Abstract

We describe diffractive hard processes in the framework of QCD factorization and discuss what one can learn from the study of hadronic systems with small transverse size.