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Asymptotic properties of the solutions of a differential equation appearing in QCD
We establish the asymptotic behaviour of the ratio for
, where is a solution, vanishing at infinity,
of the differential equation
on the domain and . Some results are valid for more general 's.Comment: 6 pages, late
Dynamical screening away from equilibrium: hard photon production and collisional energy loss
We investigate the production rate for hard real photons and the collisional
energy loss in the quark-gluon plasma away from chemical equilibrium. Applying
the Hard-Thermal-Loop resummation scheme away from equilibrium, we can show
that Landau damping provides dynamical screening for both fermion and boson
exchange present in the two quantities.Comment: 5 pages RevTeX, 2 figures, remarks for clarification and one
reference added, typos correcte
Emission of polarized photons from unpolarized electrons moving in crystals
Radiation emitted by unpolarized high-energy electrons penetrating crystals
may be linearly polarized. This occurs when the particle velocity makes an
angle, with respect to some major crystal axis, being sufficiently larger than
the axial-channelling angle. For such orientation, a complete description of
spectral and polarization characteristics of the radiation is derived. At
planar channelling, a non-perturbative contribution to the probability of the
process appears caused by the plane field, and we must solve exactly a
one~-~dimensional mechanical problem. For that, the approximate form of the
actual plane potential is suggested which provides a precise fit for any
crystal plane and an analytical solution to the motion problem. In a practical
case, we must consider electron-photon showers developing in sufficiently thick
crystals. For the first time, this development is described taking into account
the polarization of photons. We discuss qualitative features of the phenomenon,
present results of numerical calculations for thin and thick crystals, and
evaluate the possibility of the use of differently oriented crystals in a
polarized hard photon source.Comment: 16 pages, 7 PostScript figure
Dynamical screening in hot systems away from (chemical) equilibrium
Within the Closed Time Path Formalism of Thermal Field Theory we calculate
the hard photon emission rate as well as the collisional energy-loss rate for a
quark-gluon plasma away from chemical equilibrium. Mass singularities are shown
to be dynamically screened within HTL-resummed perturbation theory also away
from equilibrium. Additional (pinch) singularities are absent and well defined
results are obtained.Comment: Talk given at the Japanese Workshop on Thermal Quantum Field Theories
and their Applications, Kyoto, Japan, 25.-27. August 1999, 6 page
Deviation from standard QED at large distances: influence of transverse dimensions of colliding beams on bremsstrahlung
The radiation at collision of high-energy particles is formed over a rather
long distances and therefore is sensitive to an environment. In particular the
smallness of the transverse dimensions of the colliding beams leads to
suppression of bremsstrahlung cross section for soft photons. This beam-size
effect was discovered and investigated at INP, Novosibirsk around 1980. At that
time an incomplete expression for the bremsstrahlung spectrum was calculated
and used because a subtraction associated with the extraction of pure
fluctuation process was not performed. Here this procedure is done. The
complete expression for the spectral-angular distribution of incoherent
bremsstrahlung probability is obtained. The case of Gaussian colliding beams is
investigated in details. In the case of flat beams the expressions for the
bremsstrahlung spectrum are simplified essentially. Comparison of theory with
VEPP4 and HERA data is performed. Possible application of the effect to linear
collider tuning is discussed.Comment: 23 pagers,5 figure
Energy loss of quarks in deconfined matter at RHIC: photon-tagged jets, single electron and dilepton spectra from open charm
We report a first attempt (i) to derive constraints on the energy loss of
charm quarks in a deconfined medium from the recent PHENIX data of
single-electron transverse momentum spectra and (ii) to estimate the resulting
suppression of dileptons from correlated semi-leptonic decays of open charmed
mesons. The momentum imbalance of photon-tagged light-quark jets is also
considered.Comment: contribution to Quark Matter 2002, Nantes, France, July 18 - 24, 200
Luminosity segregation in galaxy clusters as an indication of dynamical evolution
Theoretical models describing the dynamical evolution of self-gravitating systems predict a spatial mass segregation for more evolved systems, with the more massive objects concentrated toward the center of the configuration. From the observational point of view, however, the existence of mass segregation in galaxy clusters seems to be a matter of controversy. A special problem in this connection is the formation of cD galaxies in the centers of galaxy clusters. The most promising scenarios of their formation are galaxy cannibalism (merger scenario) and growing by cooling flows. It seems to be plausible to consider the swallowing of smaller systems by a dominant galaxy as an important process in the evolution of a cD galaxy. The stage of the evolution of the dominant galaxy should be reflected by the surrounding galaxy population, especially by possible mass segregation effects. Assuming that mass segregation is tantamount to luminosity segregation we analyzed luminosity segregation in roughly 40 cD galaxy clusters. Obviously there are three different groups of clusters: (1) clusters with luminosity segregation, (2) clusters without luminosity segregation, and (3) such objects exhibiting a phenomenon which we call antisegregation in luminosity, i.e. a deficiency of bright galaxies in the central regions of clusters. This result is interpreted in the sense of different degrees of mass segregation and as an indication for different evolution stages of these clusters. The clusters are arranged in the three segregation classes 2, 1, and 0 (S2 = strong mass segregation, S1 = moderate mass segregation, S0 = weak or absent mass segregation). We assume that a galaxy cluster starts its dynamical evolution after virialization without any radial mass segregation. Energy exchange during encounters of cluster members as well as merger processes between cluster galaxies lead to an increasing radial mass segregation in the cluster (S1). If a certain degree of segregation (S2) has been established, an essential number of slow-moving and relative massive cluster members in the center will be cannibalized by the initial brightest cluster galaxy. This process should lead to the growing of the predominate galaxy, which is accompanied by a diminution of the mass segregation (transition to S1 and S0, respectively) in the neighborhood of the central very massive galaxy. An increase of the areal density of brighter galaxies towards the outer cluster regions (antisegregation of luminosity), i.e. an extreme low degree of mass segregation was estimated for a substantial percentage of cD clusters. This result favors the cannibalism scenario for the formation of cD galaxies
Spin transport, spin diffusion and Bloch equations in electron storage rings
We show how, beginning with the Fokker--Planck equation for electrons
emitting synchrotron radiation in a storage ring, the corresponding equation
for spin motion can be constructed. This is an equation of the Bloch type for
the polarisation density.Comment: 7 pages. No figures. Latex: Minor corrections in the tex
Partonic Energy Loss and the Drell-Yan Process
We examine the current status of the extraction of the rate of partonic
energy loss in nuclei from A dependent data. The advantages and difficulties of
using the Drell-Yan process to measure the energy loss of a parton traversing a
cold nuclear medium are discussed. The prospects of using relatively low energy
proton beams for a definitive measurement of partonic energy loss are
presented.Comment: 12 pages, 2 figure
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