230 research outputs found
Nuclear bound states of antikaons, or quantized multiskyrmions?
The spectrum of strange multibaryons is considered within the chiral soliton
model using one of several possible SU(3$ quantization models (the bound state
rigid oscillator version). The states with energy below that of antikaon and
corresponding nucleus can be interpreted as antikaon-nucleus bound states. In
the formal limit of small kaon mass the number of such states becomes large,
for real value of this mass there are at least several states. For large values
of binding energies interpretation of such states just as antikaon-nuclear
bound states becomes more ambiguous.Comment: Corrections, amendments and additions made, references adde
Quenching of high-pT hadrons: Energy Loss vs Color Transparency
High-pT hadrons produced in hard collisions and detected inclusively bear
peculiar features: (i) they originate from jets whose initial virtuality and
energy are of the same order; (ii) such jets are rare and have a very biased
energy sharing among the particles, namely, the detected hadron carries the
main fraction of the jet energy. The former feature leads to an extremely
intensive gluon radiation and energy dissipation at the early stage of
hadronization, either in vacuum or in a medium. As a result, a leading hadron
must be produced on a short length scale. Evaluation within a model of
perturbative fragmentation confirms the shortness of the production length.
This result is at variance with the unjustified assumption of long production
length, made within the popular energy loss scenario. Thus we conclude that the
main reason of suppression of high-pT hadrons in heavy ion collisions is the
controlled by color transparency attenuation of a high-pT dipole propagating
through the hot medium. Adjusting a single parameter, the transport
coefficient, we describe quite well the data from LHC and RHIC for the
suppression factor R_{AA} as function of pT, collision energy and centrality.
We observe that the complementary effect of initial state interaction causes a
flattening and even fall of R_{AA} at large pT. The azimuthal anisotropy of
hadron production, calculated with no further adjustment, also agrees well with
data at different energies and centralities.Comment: 17 pages, 19 figure
Lagrangian approach in spin-oscillations problem
Lagrangian of electronic liquid in magneto-inhomogeneous micro-conductor has
been constructed. A corresponding Euler-Lagrange equation has been solved. It
was shown that the described system has eigenmodes of spin polarization and
total electric current oscillations. The suggested approach permits to study
the spin dynamics in an open-circuit which contains capacitance and/or
inductivity.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figure
Quantum-mechanical description of in-medium fragmentation
We present a quantum-mechanical description of quark-hadron fragmentation in
a nuclear environment. It employs the path-integral formulation of quantum
mechanics, which takes care of all phases and interferences, and which contains
all relevant time scales, like production, coherence, formation, etc. The cross
section includes the probability of pre-hadron (colorless dipole) production
both inside and outside the medium. Moreover, it also includes inside-outside
production, which is a typical quantum-mechanical interference effect (like
twin-slit electron propagation). We observe a substantial suppression caused by
the medium, even if the pre-hadron is produced outside the medium and no energy
loss is involved. This important source of suppression is missed in the usual
energy-loss scenario interpreting the effect of jet quenching observed in heavy
ion collisions. This may be one of the reasons of a too large gluon density,
reported by such analyzes.Comment: 20 pages, 7 figure
Diffractive Excitation of Heavy Flavors: Leading Twist Mechanisms
Diffractive production of heavy flavors is calculated within the light-cone
dipole approach. Novel leading twist mechanisms are proposed, which involve
both short and long transverse distances inside the incoming hadron.
Nevertheless, the diffractive cross section turns out to be sensitive to the
primordial transverse momenta of projectile gluons, rather than to the hadronic
size. Our calculations agree with the available data for diffractive production
of charm and beauty, and with the observed weak variation of the
diffraction-to-inclusive cross section ratios as function of the hard scale.Comment: Latex, 19 pages, 12 figures. A short commenting on previously done
computations is adde
Breakdown of PCAC in diffractive neutrino interactions
We test the hypothesis of partially conserved axial current (PCAC) in high
energy diffractive neutrino production of pions. Since the pion pole
contribution to the Adler relation (AR) is forbidden by conservation of the
lepton current, the heavier states, like the a_1 pole, \rho-\pi-cut, etc.,
control the lifetime of the hadronic fluctuations of the neutrino. We evaluate
the deviation from the AR in diffractive neutrino-production of pions on proton
and nuclear targets. At high energies, when all the relevant time scales
considerably exceed the size of the target, the AR explicitly breaks down on an
absorptive target, such as a heavy nucleus. In this regime, close to the black
disc limit, the off-diagonal diffractive amplitudes vanish, while the diagonal
one, \pi->\pi, which enters the AR, maximizes and saturates the unitarity
bound. At lower energies, in the regime of short lifetime of heavy hadronic
fluctuations the AR is restored, i.e. it is not altered by the nuclear effects.Comment: 10 pages, 5 figure
Real Compton Scattering via Color Dipoles
We study photoabsorption reaction and real Compton scattering (RCS) within
the color dipole model. We rely on a photon wave function derived in the
instanton vacuum model, and on the energy dependent phenomenological elastic
dipole amplitude. Data for the photoabsorption cross section at high energies
agree with our parameter free calculations. We also provide predictions for the
differential RCS cross section. Although no data for small angle Compton
scattering are available so far, this process can be measured in
ultra-peripheral hadronic and nuclear collisions at the LHC.Comment: 9 pages, 4 figures. Some statements clarified, bibliographic
inaccuracy correcte
On the quantization of SU(3)-skyrmions
The quantization condition derived previously for SU(2) solitons quantized
with SU(3)-collective coordinates is generalized for SU(3) skyrmions with
strangeness content different from zero. Quantization of the dipole-type
configuration with large strangeness content found recently is considered as an
example.Comment: 7 pages, 2 figures (available by request
Number of Collisions in the Glauber Model and Beyond
The so called number of hadron-nucleus collisions n_coll(b) at impact
parameter b, and its integral value N_coll, which are used to normalize the
measured fractional cross section of a hard process, are calculated within the
Glauber-Gribov theory including the effects of nucleon short-range
correlations. The Gribov inelastic shadowing corrections are summed to all
orders by employing the dipole representation. Numerical calculations are
performed at the energies of the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and
CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). We found that whereas the Gribov corrections
generally increase the value of N_coll, the inclusion of nucleon correlations,
acting in the opposite directions, decreases it by a comparable amount. The
interplay of the two effects varies with the value of the impact parameter.Comment: Text expanded; typos corrected; results and conclusions unchanged. To
appear in Phys. Rev.
Large Rapidity Gap Processes in Proton-Nucleus Collisions
The cross sections for a variety of channels of proton-nucleus interaction
associated with large gaps in rapidity are calculated within the Glauber-Gribov
theory. We found inelastic shadowing corrections to be dramatically enhanced
for such events. We employ the light-cone dipole formalism which allows to
calculate the inelastic corrections to all orders of the multiple interaction.
Although Gribov corrections are known to make nuclear matter more transparent,
we demonstrate that in some instances they lead to an opaqueness. Numerical
calculations are performed for the energies of the HERA-B experiment, and the
RHIC-LHC colliders.Comment: 19 page
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