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Structure of the Isovector Dipole Resonance in Neutron-Rich Nucleus and Direct Decay from Pygmy Resonance
The structure of the isovector dipole resonance in neutron-rich calcium
isotope, , has been investigated by implementing a careful treatment
of the differences of neutron and proton radii in the continuum random phase
approximation (). The calculations have taken into account the current
estimates of the neutron skin. The estimates of the escape widths for direct
neutron decay from the pygmy dipole resonance () were shown rather wide,
implicating a strong coupling to the continuum. The width of the giant dipole
resonance () was evaluated, bringing on a detailed discussion about its
microscopic structure.Comment: 13 pages, 2 figures, RevTex
Statistical hadronization and hadronic microcanonical ensemble I
We present a full treatment of the microcanonical ensemble of the ideal
hadron-resonance gas in a quantum-mechanical framework which is appropriate for
the statistical model of hadronization. By using a suitable transition operator
for hadronization we are able to recover the results of the statistical theory,
particularly the expressions of the rates of different channels. Explicit
formulae are obtained for the phase space volume or density of states of the
ideal relativistic gas in quantum statistics which, for large volumes, turn to
a cluster decomposition whose terms beyond the leading one account for
Bose-Einstein and Fermi-Dirac correlations. The problem of the computation of
the microcanonical ensemble and its comparison with the canonical one, which
will be the main subject of a forthcoming paper, is addressed.Comment: 15 pages, LaTeX macros svjour.cls and svepj.clo needed, revised
version to be published in Eur. Phys. J.
Two-pion Bose-Einstein correlations in central Pb-Pb collisions at = 2.76 TeV
The first measurement of two-pion Bose-Einstein correlations in central Pb-Pb
collisions at TeV at the Large Hadron Collider is
presented. We observe a growing trend with energy now not only for the
longitudinal and the outward but also for the sideward pion source radius. The
pion homogeneity volume and the decoupling time are significantly larger than
those measured at RHIC.Comment: 17 pages, 5 captioned figures, 1 table, authors from page 12,
published version, figures at
http://aliceinfo.cern.ch/ArtSubmission/node/388
Compact stars in the standard model - and beyond
In the context of the standard model of particle physics, there is a definite
upper limit to the density of stable compact stars. However, if there is a
deeper layer of constituents, below that of quarks and leptons, stability may
be re-established far beyond this limiting density and a new class of compact
stars could exist. These objects would cause gravitational lensing of white
dwarfs and gamma-ray bursts, which might be observable as a diffraction pattern
in the spectrum. Such observations could provide means for obtaining new clues
about the fundamental particles and the origin of cold dark matter.Comment: 16 pages, 6 figures, contribution to the 42nd course of the
international school of subnuclear physics, 'How and where to go beyond the
standard model', Erice, Aug. 29 - Sep. 7, 200
Suppression of charged particle production at large transverse momentum in central Pb-Pb collisions at TeV
Inclusive transverse momentum spectra of primary charged particles in Pb-Pb
collisions at = 2.76 TeV have been measured by the ALICE
Collaboration at the LHC. The data are presented for central and peripheral
collisions, corresponding to 0-5% and 70-80% of the hadronic Pb-Pb cross
section. The measured charged particle spectra in and GeV/ are compared to the expectation in pp collisions at the same
, scaled by the number of underlying nucleon-nucleon
collisions. The comparison is expressed in terms of the nuclear modification
factor . The result indicates only weak medium effects ( 0.7) in peripheral collisions. In central collisions,
reaches a minimum of about 0.14 at -7GeV/ and increases
significantly at larger . The measured suppression of high- particles is stronger than that observed at lower collision energies,
indicating that a very dense medium is formed in central Pb-Pb collisions at
the LHC.Comment: 15 pages, 5 captioned figures, 3 tables, authors from page 10,
published version, figures at http://aliceinfo.cern.ch/ArtSubmission/node/98
The Missing Odderon
In contrast to theoretical expectations, experimental results at sqrt(s)=200
GeV for the reaction gamma p --> pi0 X show no evidence for odderon exchange.
The upper limit on the cross section is an order of magnitude smaller than the
theoretical estimate. It is argued that chiral symmetry leads to a large
suppression, taking the thoeretical estimates well below the data. Two
additional arguments are presented which may decrease the theoretical estimate
further. The calculations are more sensitive to the assumptions made in
evaluating the hadronic scattering amplitude than in the processes considered
previously and lattice gauge calculations indicate that the odderon intercept
may be appreciably lower than usually assumed. These two latter effects are
particularly relevant for the reactions gamma p --> f2(1270)X and gamma p -->
a2(1320)X for which the data upper limits are also below the theoretical
predictions, but not so dramatically as for gamma p --> pi0 X.Comment: 12 pages, 3 figure
Elliptic flow of charged particles in Pb-Pb collisions at 2.76 TeV
We report the first measurement of charged particle elliptic flow in Pb-Pb
collisions at 2.76 TeV with the ALICE detector at the CERN Large Hadron
Collider. The measurement is performed in the central pseudorapidity region
(||<0.8) and transverse momentum range 0.2< < 5.0 GeV/. The
elliptic flow signal v, measured using the 4-particle correlation method,
averaged over transverse momentum and pseudorapidity is 0.087 0.002
(stat) 0.004 (syst) in the 40-50% centrality class. The differential
elliptic flow v reaches a maximum of 0.2 near = 3
GeV/. Compared to RHIC Au-Au collisions at 200 GeV, the elliptic flow
increases by about 30%. Some hydrodynamic model predictions which include
viscous corrections are in agreement with the observed increase.Comment: 10 pages, 4 captioned figures, published version, figures at
http://aliceinfo.cern.ch/ArtSubmission/node/389
Finite-Size Effects and Scaling for the Thermal QCD Deconfinement Phase Transition within the Exact Color-Singlet Partition Function
We study the finite-size effects for the thermal QCD Deconfinement Phase
Transition (DPT), and use a numerical finite size scaling analysis to extract
the scaling exponents characterizing its scaling behavior when approaching the
thermodynamic limit. For this, we use a simple model of coexistence of hadronic
gas and color-singlet Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP) phases in a finite volume. The
Color-Singlet Partition Function (CSPF) of the QGP cannot be exactly calculated
and is usually derived within the saddle point approximation. When we try to do
calculations with such an approximate CSPF, a problem arises in the limit of
small temperatures and/or volumes (VT3<<1), requiring then additional
approximations if we want to carry out calculations. We propose in this work a
new method for an accurate calculation of any quantity of the finite system,
without explicitly calculating the CSPF itself and without any approximation.
By probing the behavior of some useful thermodynamic response functions on the
hole range of temperature, it turns out that in a finite size system, all
singularities in the thermodynamic limit are smeared out and the transition
point is shifted away. A numerical finite size scaling analysis of the obtained
data allows us to determine the scaling exponents of the QCD DPT. Our results
expressing the equality between their values and the space dimensionality is a
consequence of the singularity characterizing a first order phase transition
and agree very well with the predictions of other FSS theoretical approaches
and with the results of both lattice QCD and Monte Carlo models calculations.Comment: 09 pages, 11 Postscript figure
Measurement of the Strong Coupling alpha s from Four-Jet Observables in e+e- Annihilation
Data from e+e- annihilation into hadrons at centre-of-mass energies between
91 GeV and 209 GeV collected with the OPAL detector at LEP, are used to study
the four-jet rate as a function of the Durham algorithm resolution parameter
ycut. The four-jet rate is compared to next-to-leading order calculations that
include the resummation of large logarithms. The strong coupling measured from
the four-jet rate is alphas(Mz0)=
0.1182+-0.0003(stat.)+-0.0015(exp.)+-0.0011(had.)+-0.0012(scale)+-0.0013(mass)
in agreement with the world average. Next-to-leading order fits to the
D-parameter and thrust minor event-shape observables are also performed for the
first time. We find consistent results, but with significantly larger
theoretical uncertainties.Comment: 25 pages, 15 figures, Submitted to Euro. Phys. J.
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