Jan Ryckebusch (Ghent University, Belgium)

Diffractive scattering of hadrons through nuclei

Reactions in which an external probe (an electron, a neutrino, ....) cause a hadron to escape from the target nucleus, play a key role in nuclear and hadron physics. At sufficiently high hadron momenta, Glauber multiple-scattering theory offers an efficient way of dealing with reactions of this type. A relativistic formulation of the theory will be presented. Recent applications include the study of the crossover from hadronic to partonic degree of freedom.