158 research outputs found
LIDAR studies on microbursts
Preliminary analysis of requirements for future airborne windshear detection systems is presented. The following topics are covered: flight mechanics; microbursts modeling; microburst detection with airborne systems (LIDAR, radar, passive IR sensors); microbursts prediction with ground systems (VHF interferometry). A short overview of these studies is presented and some results are discussed
Enhanced thermal production of hard dileptons by processes
In the framework of the Hard Thermal Loop effective theory, we calculate the
two-loop contributions to hard lepton pair production in a quark-gluon plasma.
We show that the result is free of any infrared and collinear singularity. We
also recover the known fact that perturbation theory leads to integrable
singularities at the location of the threshold for . It
appears that the process calculated here significantly enhances the rate of low
mass hard dileptons.Comment: 32 latex pages, 14 postscript figure
A simple sum rule for the thermal gluon spectral function and applications
In this paper, we derive a simple sum rule satisfied by the gluon spectral
function at finite temperature. This sum rule is useful in order to calculate
exactly some integrals that appear frequently in the photon or dilepton
production rate by a quark gluon plasma. Using this sum rule, we rederive
simply some known results and obtain some new results that would be extremely
difficult to justify otherwise. In particular, we derive an exact expression
for the collision integral that appears in the calculation of the
Landau-Pomeranchuk-Migdal effect.Comment: 24 latex pages, 2 postscript figure
Dileptons from hot heavy static photons
We compute the production rate of lepton pair by static photons at finite
temperature at two-loop order. We treat the infrared region of the gluon phase
space carefully by using a hard thermal loop gluon propagator. The result is
free of infrared and collinear divergences and exhibits an enhancement which
produces a result of order instead of as would be
expected from ordinary perturbation theory.Comment: 14 pages, 2 figure
A Parton Shower Model for Hadronic Two-Photon Process in e^+e^- Scatterings
A new model of QCD parton shower is proposed which is dedicated to two-photon
process in scattering. When hadron jets are produced, the photon may
resolve into quark-antiquark pairs so that the structure functions of the
photon should be introduced. Based on the Altarelli-Parisi equation for these
functions, an algorithm is formulated that allows us to construct a model for
parton showers for the photon. Our model consists of two parts, one of which
describes the deep inelastic scattering of the photon and the other one the
scattering of two quasi-real photons. Using the model some results are
presented on parton distributions and jet production.Comment: LaTeX file 16 pages 7 figures available on requis
Anomalous mass dependence of radiative quark energy loss in a finite-size quark-gluon plasma
We demonstrate that for a finite-size quark-gluon plasma the induced gluon
radiation from heavy quarks is stronger than that for light quarks when the
gluon formation length becomes comparable with (or exceeds) the size of the
plasma. The effect is due to oscillations of the light-cone wave function for
the in-medium transition. The dead cone model by Dokshitzer and
Kharzeev neglecting quantum finite-size effects is not valid in this regime.
The finite-size effects also enhance the photon emission from heavy quarks.Comment: 8 pages, 3 figure
Exploring the polarization of gluons in the nucleon
We give an overview of the current status of investigations of the
polarization of gluons in the nucleon. We describe some of the physics of the
spin-dependent gluon parton distribution and its phenomenology in high-energy
polarized hadronic scattering. We also review the recent experimental results.Comment: 10 pages, 13 figures. Talk presented at the "Second Meeting of the
APS Topical Group on Hadronic Physics", Nashville, Tennessee, October 22-24,
2006. Reference adde
Prompt photon hadroproduction at high energies in off-shell gluon-gluon fusion
The amplitude for production of a single photon associated with quark pair in
the fusion of two off-shell gluons is calculated. The matrix element found is
applied to the inclusive prompt photon hadroproduction at high energies in the
framework of kt-factorization QCD approach. The total and differential cross
sections are calculated in both central and forward pseudo-rapidity regions.
The conservative error analisys is performed. We used the unintegrated gluon
distributions in a proton which were obtained from the full CCFM evolution
equation as well as from the Kimber-Martin-Ryskin prescription. Theoretical
results were compared with recent experimental data taken by the D0 and CDF
collaborations at Fermilab Tevatron. Theoretical predictions for the LHC
energies are given.Comment: 32 pages, 18 figure
Comments on two papers by Kapusta and Wong
We critically examine recently published results on the thermal production of
massive vector bosons in a quark-gluon plasma. We claim the production rate is
a collinear safe observable.Comment: 6 pages LATEX documen
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