Hard diffraction and the Color Glass Condensate

Abstract

Following the Good-and-Walker picture, hard diffraction in the high-energy/small-x limit of QCD can be described in terms of eigenstates of the scattering matrix off a Color Glass Condensate. From the CGC non-linear evolution equations, it is then possible to derive the behavior of diffractive cross-sections at small $x.$ I discuss recent results, in particular the consequences of the inclusion of Pomeron loops in the evolution.

Comments: 4 pages, 2 figures, Proceedings of the XVth International Workshop on Deep Inelastic Scattering (DIS07), Munich, Germany, April 16-20 2007