17 research outputs found
Longitudinal Momentum Fraction X_L for Two High P_t Protons in pp->ppX Reaction
We present an analysis of new data from Experiment E850 at BNL. We have
characterized the inclusive cross section near the endpoint for pp exclusive
scattering in Hydrogen and in Carbon with incident beam energy of 6 GeV. We
select events with a pair of back-to-back hadrons at large transverse momentum.
These cross sections are parameterized with a form
, where is the ratio of the longitudinal momentum
of the observed pair to the total incident beam momentum. Small value of
may suggest that the number of partons participating in the reaction is large
and reaction has a strong dependence on the center-of-mass energy. We also
discuss nuclear effects observed in our kinematic region.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures, to be published in Proceedings of CIPANP2000,
Quebec, May 22-28, 2000, requires aipproc.sty(included
Energy Dependence of Nuclear Transparency in C(p,2p) Scattering
The transparency of carbon for (p,2p) quasi-elastic events was measured at
beam energies ranging from 6 to 14.5 GeV at 90 degrees c.m. The four momentum
transfer squared q*q ranged from 4.8 to 16.9 (GeV/c)**2. We present the
observed energy dependence of the ratio of the carbon to hydrogen cross
sections. We also apply a model for the nuclear momentum distribution of carbon
to normalize this transparency ratio. We find a sharp rise in transparency as
the beam energy is increased to 9 GeV and a reduction to approximately the
Glauber level at higher energies.Comment: 4 pages, 2figures, submitted to PR
Subprocess Size in Hard Exclusive Scattering
The interaction region of hard exclusive hadron scattering can have a large
transverse size due to endpoint contributions, where one parton carries most of
the hadron momentum. The endpoint region is enhanced and can dominate in
processes involving multiple scattering and quark helicity flip. The endpoint
Fock states have perturbatively short lifetimes and scatter softly in the
target. We give plausible arguments that endpoint contributions can explain the
apparent absence of color transparency in fixed angle exclusive scattering and
the dimensional scaling of transverse rho photoproduction at high momentum
transfer, which requires quark helicity flip. We also present a quantitative
estimate of Sudakov effects.Comment: 16 pages, 4 figures, JHEP style; v2: quantitative estimate of Sudakov
effects and more detailed discussion of endpoint behaviour of meson
distribution amplitude added, few other clarifications, version to appear in
Phys. Rev.
Investigation of the high momentum component of nuclear wave function using hard quasielastic A(p,2p)X reactions
We present theoretical analysis of the first data on the high energy and
momentum transfer (hard) quasielastic reactions. The cross section
of hard reaction is calculated within the light-cone impulse
approximation based on two-nucleon correlation model for the high-momentum
component of the nuclear wave function. The nuclear effects due to modification
of the bound nucleon structure, soft nucleon-nucleon reinteraction in the
initial and final states of the reaction with and without color coherence have
been considered. The calculations including these nuclear effects show that the
distribution of the bound proton light-cone momentum fraction shifts
towards small values (), effect which was previously derived only
within plane wave impulse approximation. This shift is very sensitive to the
strength of the short range correlations in nuclei. Also calculated is an
excess of the total longitudinal momentum of outgoing protons. The calculations
are compared with data on the reaction obtained from the EVA/AGS
experiment at Brookhaven National Laboratory. These data show -shift in
agreement with the calculations. The comparison allows also to single out the
contribution from short-range nucleon correlations. The obtained strength of
the correlations is in agreement with the values previously obtained from
electroproduction reactions on nuclei.Comment: 30 pages LaTex file and 19 eps figure
Nuclear transparency from quasielastic A(e,e'p) reactions uo to Q^2=8.1 (GeV/c)^2
The quasielastic (e,ep) reaction was studied on targets of
deuterium, carbon, and iron up to a value of momentum transfer of 8.1
(GeV/c). A nuclear transparency was determined by comparing the data to
calculations in the Plane-Wave Impulse Approximation. The dependence of the
nuclear transparency on and the mass number was investigated in a
search for the onset of the Color Transparency phenomenon. We find no evidence
for the onset of Color Transparency within our range of . A fit to the
world's nuclear transparency data reflects the energy dependence of the free
proton-nucleon cross section.Comment: 11 pages, 6 figure
Relativistic calculation of nuclear transparency in (e,e'p) reactions
Nuclear transparency in (e,e'p) reactions is evaluated in a fully
relativistic distorted wave impulse approximation model. The relativistic mean
field theory is used for the bound state and the Pauli reduction for the
scattering state, which is calculated from a relativistic optical potential.
Results for selected nuclei are displayed in a Q^2 range between 0.3 and 1.8
(GeV/c)^2 and compared with recent electron scattering data. For Q^2 = 0.3
(GeV/c)^2 the results are lower than data; for higher Q^2 they are in
reasonable agreement with data. The sensitivity of the model to different
prescriptions for the one-body current operator is investigated. The off-shell
ambiguities are rather large for the distorted cross sections and small for the
plane wave cross sections.Comment: 8 pages, 3 figure
Evidence for the Onset of Color Transparency in Electroproduction off Nuclei
We have measured the nuclear transparency of the incoherent diffractive
process in C and Fe targets relative to H
using a 5 GeV electron beam. The nuclear transparency, the ratio of the
produced 's on a nucleus relative to deuterium, which is sensitive to
interaction, was studied as function of the coherence length (),
a lifetime of the hadronic fluctuation of the virtual photon, and the
four-momentum transfer squared (). While the transparency for both
C and Fe showed no dependence, a significant
dependence was measured, which is consistent with calculations that included
the color transparency effects.Comment: 6 pages and 4 figure
Practical divide-and-conquer algorithms for polynomial arithmetic
We investigate two practical divide-and-conquer style algorithms for univariate polynomial arithmetic. First we revisit an algorithm originally described by Brent and Kung for composition of power series, showing that it can be applied practically to composition of polynomials in Z[x] given in the standard monomial basis. We offer a complexity analysis, showing that it is asymptotically fast, avoiding coefficient explosion in Z[x]. Secondly we provide an improvement to Mulders' polynomial division algorithm. We show that it is particularly efficient compared with the multimodular algorithm. The algorithms are straightforward to implement and available in the open source FLINT C library. We offer a practical comparison of our implementations with various computer algebra systems