447 research outputs found
Photoinduced magnetism in the ferromagnetic semiconductors
We study the enhancement of the magnetic transition temperature due to
incident light in ferromagnetic semiconductors such as EuS. The photoexcited
carriers mediate an extra ferromagnetic interaction due to the coupling with
the localized magnetic moments. The Hamiltonian consists of a Heisenberg model
for the localized moments and an interaction term between the photoexcited
carriers and the localized moments. The model predicts a small enhancement of
the transition temperature in semi-quantitative agreement with the experiments.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figure
QED Radiative Corrections in Processes of Exclusive Pion Electroproduction
Formalism for radiative correction (RC) calculation in exclusive pion
electroproduction on the proton is presented. A FORTRAN code EXCLURAD is
developed for the RC procedure. The numerical analysis is done in the
kinematics of current Jefferson Lab experiments.Comment: 13 pages, 9 figures; requires RevTeX
Transverse target spin asymmetry in inclusive DIS with two-photon exchange
We study the transverse target spin dependence of the cross section for
inclusive electron-nucleon scattering with unpolarized beam. Such dependence is
absent in the one-photon exchange approximation (Christ-Lee theorem) and arises
only in higher orders of the QED expansion, from the interference of one-photon
and absorptive two-photon exchange amplitudes as well as from real photon
emission (bremsstrahlung). We demonstrate that the transverse spin-dependent
two-photon exchange cross section is free of QED infrared and collinear
divergences. We argue that in DIS kinematics the transverse spin dependence
should be governed by a "parton-like" mechanism in which the two-photon
exchange couples mainly to a single quark. We calculate the normal spin
asymmetry in an approximation where the dominant contribution arises from quark
helicity flip due to interactions with non-perturbative vacuum fields
(constituent quark picture) and is proportional to the quark transversity
distribution in the nucleon. Such helicity-flip processes are not significantly
Sudakov-suppressed if the infrared scale for gluon emission in the photon-quark
subprocess is of the order of the chiral symmetry breaking scale, mu_chiral^2
>> Lambda_QCD^2. We estimate the asymmetry in the kinematics of the planned
Jefferson Lab Hall A experiment to be of the order 10^{-4}, with different sign
for proton and neutron. We also comment on the spin dependence in the limit of
soft high-energy scattering.Comment: 22 pages, 14 figures; uses revtex
Partonic calculation of the two-photon exchange contribution to elastic electron-proton scattering at large momentum transfer
We estimate the two-photon exchange contribution to elastic electron-proton
scattering at large momentum transfer through the scattering off a parton in
the proton. We relate the process on the nucleon to the generalized parton
distributions which also enter in other wide angle scattering processes. We
find that when taking the polarization transfer determinations of the form
factors as input, adding in the 2 photon correction, does reproduce the
Rosenbluth data.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
Beam Single-Spin Asymmetry in Semi-Inclusive Deep Inelastic Scattering
We calculate, in a model, the beam spin asymmetry in semi-inclusive jet
production in deep inelastic scattering. This twist-3, -odd observable is
non-zero due to final state strong interactions. With reasonable choices for
the parameters, one finds an asymmetry of several percent, about the size seen
experimentally. We present the result both as an explicit asymmetry calculation
and as a model calculation of the new transverse-momentum dependent
distribution function .Comment: 10 pages, 6 figures; minor changes made in the discussion; version
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Studies of spin-orbit correlations at JLAB
Studies of single spin asymmetries for pion electroproduction in
semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering are presented using the polarized
\sim6 GeV electrons from at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
(JLab) and the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF) Large
Acceptance Spectrometer (CLAS) with the Inner Calorimeter. The cross section
versus the azimuthal angle {\phi}_h of the produced neutral pion has a
substantial sin {\phi}_h amplitude. The dependence of this amplitude on Bjorken
x_B and on the pion transverse momentum is extracted and compared with
published data.Comment: proceedings of SPIN2010 conference (September-October 2010,
Juelich-Germany
Radiative Correction to the Transferred Polarization in Elastic Electron-Proton Scattering
Model independent radiative correction to the recoil proton polarization for
the elastic electron-proton scattering is calculated within method of electron
structure functions. The explicit expressions for the recoil proton
polarization are represented as a contraction of the electron structure and the
hard part of the polarization dependent contribution into cross-section. The
calculation of the hard part with first order radiative correction is
performed. The obtained representation includes the leading radiative
corrections in all orders of perturbation theory and the main part of the
second order next-to-leading ones. Numerical calculations illustrate our
analytical results.Comment: 14 pages, 4 figure
Soft Contributions to Hard Pion Photoproduction
Hard, or high transverse momentum, pion photoproduction can be a tool for
probing the parton structure of the beam and target. We estimate the soft
contributions to this process, with an eye toward delineating the region where
perturbatively calculable processes dominate. Our soft process estimate is
based on vector meson dominance and data based parameterizations of
semiexclusive hadronic cross sections. We find that soft processes dominate in
single pion photoproduction somewhat past 2 GeV transverse momentum at a few
times 10 GeV incoming energy. The recent polarization asymmetry data is
consistent with the perturbative asymmetry being diluted by polarization
insensitive soft processes. Determining the polarized gluon distribution using
hard pion photoproduction appears feasible with a few hundred GeV incoming
energy (in the target rest frame).Comment: 6 pages, 5 figure
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