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Vector Meson Production in Coherent Hadronic Interactions: An update on predictions for RHIC and LHC
In this letter we update our predictions for the photoproduction of vector
mesons in coherent and collisions at RHIC and LHC energies using the
color dipole approach and the Color Glass Condensate (CGC) formalism. In
particular, we present our predictions for the first run of the LHC at half
energy and for the rapidity dependence of the ratio between the and
cross sections at RHIC energies.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figure
Geometric Scaling in Inclusive Charm Production
We show that the cross section for inclusive charm production exhibits
geometric scaling in a large range of photon virtualities. In the HERA
kinematic domain the saturation momentum stays below the hard
scale , implying charm production probing mostly the color
transparency regime and unitarization effects being almost negligible. We
derive our results considering two saturation models which are able to describe
the DESY ep collider HERA data for the proton structure function at small
values of the Bjorken variable . A striking feature is the scaling on
above saturation limit, corroborating recent
theoretical studies.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures. Version to be published in Physical Review
Letter
Imaging spontaneous imbibition in full Darcy‐scale samples at pore‐scale resolution by fast X‐ray tomography
Spontaneous imbibition is a process occurring in a porous medium which describes wetting phase replacing nonwetting phase spontaneously due to capillary forces. This process is conventionally investigated by standardized, well-established spontaneous imbibition tests. In these tests, for instance, a rock sample is surrounded by wetting fluid. The following cumulative production of nonwetting phase versus time is used as a qualitative measure for wettability. However, these test results are difficult to interpret, because many rocks do not show a homogeneous but a mixed wettability in which the wetting preference of a rock varies from location to location. Moreover, during the test the flow regime typically changes from countercurrent to cocurrent flow and no phase pressure or pressure drop can be recorded. To help interpretation, we complement Darcy-scale production curves with X-ray imaging to describe the differences in imbibition processes between water-wet and mixed-wet systems. We found that the formation of a spontaneous imbibition front occurs only for water-wet systems; mixed-wet systems show localized imbibition events only. The asymmetry of the front depends on the occurrence of preferred production sites, which influences interpretation. Fluid layers on the outside of mixed-wet samples increase connectivity of the drained phase and the effect of buoyancy on spontaneous imbibition. The wider implication of our study is the demonstration of the capability of benchtop laboratory equipment to image a full Darcy-scale experiment while at the same time obtaining pore-scale information, resolving the natural length and time scale of the underlying processes
QCD evolution and skewedness effects in color dipole description of DVCS
We show the role played by QCD evolution and skewedness effects in the DVCS
cross section at large within the color dipole description of the process
at photon level. The dipole cross section is given by the saturation model,
which can be improved by DGLAP evolution at high photon virtualities. We
investigate both possibilities as well as the off-forward effect through a
simple phenomenological parametrisation. The results are compared to the recent
ZEUS DVCS data.Comment: LaTeX, 6 pages, 5 Figs. Vers 2: Minor modifications. Accepted by EPJ
Retrotransposons and siRNA have a role in the evolution of desiccation tolerance leading to resurrection of the plant Craterostigma plantagineum
Effective action for the Regge processes in gravity
It is shown, that the effective action for the reggeized graviton
interactions can be formulated in terms of the reggeon fields and
and the metric tensor in such a way, that it is local in
the rapidity space and has the property of general covariance. The
corresponding effective currents and satisfy the
Hamilton-Jacobi equation for a massless particle moving in the gravitational
field. These currents are calculated explicitly for the shock wave-like fields
and a variation principle for them is formulated. As an application, we
reproduce the effective lagrangian for the multi-regge processes in gravity
together with the graviton Regge trajectory in the leading logarithmic
approximation with taking into account supersymmetric contributions.Comment: 39 page
Multi-Regge kinematics and the moduli space of Riemann spheres with marked points
We show that scattering amplitudes in planar N = 4 Super Yang-Mills in
multi-Regge kinematics can naturally be expressed in terms of single-valued
iterated integrals on the moduli space of Riemann spheres with marked points.
As a consequence, scattering amplitudes in this limit can be expressed as
convolutions that can easily be computed using Stokes' theorem. We apply this
framework to MHV amplitudes to leading-logarithmic accuracy (LLA), and we prove
that at L loops all MHV amplitudes are determined by amplitudes with up to L +
4 external legs. We also investigate non-MHV amplitudes, and we show that they
can be obtained by convoluting the MHV results with a certain helicity flip
kernel. We classify all leading singularities that appear at LLA in the Regge
limit for arbitrary helicity configurations and any number of external legs.
Finally, we use our new framework to obtain explicit analytic results at LLA
for all MHV amplitudes up to five loops and all non-MHV amplitudes with up to
eight external legs and four loops.Comment: 104 pages, six awesome figures and ancillary files containing the
results in Mathematica forma
Radiative Corrections to QCD Amplitudes in Quasi-Multi-Regge Kinematics
Radiative corrections to QCD amplitudes in the quasi-multi-Regge kinematics
are interesting in particular since the Reggeized form of these amplitudes is
used in the derivation of the NLO BFKL. This form is a hypothesis which must be
at least carefully checked, if not proved. We calculate the radiative
corrections in the one-loop approximation using the s-channel unitarity.
Compatibility of the Reggeized form of the amplitudes with the s-channel
unitarity requires fulfillment of the set of nonlinear equations for the
Reggeon vertices. We show that these equations are satisfied.Comment: 28 pages,3 figure
Nuclear charm and bottom production: a comparison among high energy approaches
We calculate the nucleon and nuclear photoproduction cross sections for heavy
quarks within the -factorization formalism, considering the current
high energy approaches which include nuclear and saturation effects. Our
results demonstrate that a future experimental analysis of this process would
allow to constraint the QCD dynamics at high energies.Comment: 10 pages, 2 figures. Version to be published in Eur. Phys. J.
Quark contribution to the reggeon-reggeon-gluon vertex in QCD
The quark loop contribution to the reggeon-reggeon-gluon vertex is calculated
in QCD, where the reggeon is the reggeized gluon. Compared with the vertex in
the Born approximation, this contribution exhibits a new spin structure as well
as the gluon loop one. A remarkable but not complete cancellation between gluon
and quark contributions to this new spin structure takes place for the case of
three massless quark flavours.Comment: 19 pages + 2 figures(appended as a postscript file), Late
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