Diffractive DIS: Where Are We?

N. N. Nikolaev

Published 2001-11-12, updated 2001-11-20Version 2

A brief review of the modern QCD theory of diffractive DIS is given. The recent progress has been remarkably rapid, all the principal predictions from the color dipole approach to diffraction - the $(Q^2+m_V^2)$ scaling, the pattern of SCHNC, shrinkage of the diffraction cone in hard diffractive DIS, the strong impact of longitudinal gluons in inclusive $J/\Psi$ production at Tevatron -, have been confirmed experimentally.