Is charm the key to understanding diffraction in DIS ?

Abstract

This talk concerns the production of open charm in diffractive deep inelastic scattering. This has been calculated recently in the context of the semi-classical approach to diffraction. A comparison is made to approaches in which the diffractive exchange is modelled by the exchange of two gluons in the $t$-channel. Two phenomenological test of the underlying partonic process are discussed.

Comments: 6 pages, latex, 5 figures. Talk given at the diffractive working group of DIS '97, Chicago Il. The required AIP style files are provided