Diffractive parton distributions: the role of the perturbative Pomeron

Abstract

We consider the role of the perturbative Pomeron-to-parton splitting in the formation of the diffractive parton distributions.

8 pages, 4 figures. To appear in the proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Elastic and Diffractive Scattering: Forward Physics and QCD, DESY, Hamburg, Germany, 21-25 May 2007