120 research outputs found
A classical Odderon in QCD at high energies
We show that the weight functional for color sources in the classical theory
of the Color Glass Condensate includes a term which generates Odderon
excitations. Remarkably, the classical origin of these excitations can be
traced to the random walk of partons in the two dimensional space spanned by
the SU(3) Casimirs. This term is naturally suppressed for a large nucleus at
high energies.Comment: 19 pages. No figur
Elastic and scattering in the models of unitarized pomeron
Elastic scattering amplitudes dominated by the Pomeron singularity which obey
the principal unitarity bounds at high energies are constructed and analyzed.
Confronting the models of double and triple (at ) Pomeron pole
(supplemented by some terms responsible for the low energy behaviour) with
existing experimental data on and total and differential cross
sections at GeV and GeV we are able to tune
the form of the Pomeron singularity. Actually the good agreement with those
data is received for both models though the behaviour given by the dipole model
is more preferable in some aspects. The predictions made for the LHC energy
values display, however, the quite noticeable difference between the
predictions of models at GeV. Apparently the future
results of TOTEM will be more conclusive to make a true choice.Comment: Revtex4, 8 pages, 5 figures. Text is improved, no changes in figures
and conclusions. Version to be published in Phys. Rev.
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
Heisenberg's Universal (lns)**2 Increase of Total Cross Sections
The (lns)**2 behaviour of total cross-sections, first obtained by Heisenberg
50 years ago, receives now increased interest both on phenomenological and
theoretical levels. In this paper we present a modification of the Heisenberg's
model in connection with the presence of glueballs and we show that it leads to
a realistic description of all existing hadron total cross-section data.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figure
The Process gamma* + p -> eta_c + X: A Test for the Perturbative QCD Odderon
The rates of inclusive photo- and electroproduction of the eta_c meson:
gamma* + p -> eta_c + X are calculated in the triple Regge region, integrated
over the diffractive mass X. For the Regge exchanges we use the hard Pomeron
and Odderon, both being calculated in the framework of perturbative QCD. The
integrated cross-section depends upon the coupling of the BFKL pomeron to two
odderons, and it is found to be of the order 60 pb for photoproduction
and 1.5 pb at Q^2=25 GeV^2.Comment: 19 pages, latex, 7 eps figure
A simple recipe to detect possible C-Odd effects in high energy and
We provide a theorem to suggest that data may already be sufficient to
detect possible asymptotic C-odd (Odderon) contributions. This can be done by
comparing and observables such as total cross sections,
forward angular distributions and ratios of real to imaginary forward
amplitudes for which well defined model independent correlations {must} exist
which could already show up at RHIC energy but definitely at LHC energies.Comment: 10 pages in TeX, no figur
A comparative study on two characteristic parametrizations for high energy pp and \=pp total cross sections
Available high energy data for both pp and \=pp total cross sections ($ 5 \
GeV \ < \ \sqrt s \ < \ 1.8 \ TeV\chi^2/d.o.f.s^{\gamma \approx 2}s^{\epsilon}$) one
Universality of low-energy scattering in (2+1) dimensions
We prove that, in (2+1) dimensions, the S-wave phase shift, , k
being the c.m. momentum, vanishes as either as . The constant is universal and .
This result is established first in the framework of the Schr\"odinger equation
for a large class of potentials, second for a massive field theory from proved
analyticity and unitarity, and, finally, we look at perturbation theory in
and study its relation to our non-perturbative result. The
remarkable fact here is that in n-th order the perturbative amplitude diverges
like as , while the full amplitude vanishes as . We show how these two facts can be reconciled.Comment: 23 pages, Late
Chiral Symmetry and Diffractive Neutral Pion Photo- and Electroproduction
We show that diffractive production of a single neutral pion in
photon-induced reactions at high energy is dynamically suppressed due to the
approximate chiral symmetry of QCD. These reactions have been proposed as a
test of the odderon exchange mechanism. We show that the odderon contribution
to the amplitude for such reactions vanishes exactly in the chiral limit. This
result is obtained in a nonperturbative framework and by using PCAC relations
between the amplitudes for neutral pion and axial vector current production.Comment: 22 pages, 7 figure
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