Purpose and history

The aim of the workshop is to encourage experimentalists and theorists to discuss new results, hot topics and open problems in low x physics and diffraction at HERA, the Tevatron and beyond. It will also provide a forum for discussion of the opportunities at the LHC and RHIC.

The Low x Workshop grew out of the 1991/92 working group on HERA physics at DESY and has met almost every year since then: Saclay (1994), Cambridge (1995), Durham (1996), Madrid (1997), Berlin (1998), Tel Aviv (1999), Oxford (2000), Kraków (2001), Antwerpen (2002) and Nafplio (2003).

Topics

• DIS at small x and structure functions of the proton, photon and pomeron
• diffractive events and the problem of the pomeron
• diffractive Higgs production at the Tevatron and LHC
• diffraction at HERA vs. Tevatron
• investigation of hadronic final states
• photoproduction and DIS at low Q²
• vector meson production
• prospects in hard photon-photon physics
• other hot topics (open to suggestions)