514 research outputs found
Multiparticle Dynamics 1997: Concluding Talk
This contribution to the XXVII Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics held in
Frascati, Italy, September, 1997 consists of the following subject matter: (1)
Introductory generalities. (2) Brief mention of some of the contributions to
the meeting. (3) More extended discussion of a few specialized topics. (4)
Discussion of the FELIX initiative for a QCD detector at the LHC.Comment: LaTex, 11 page
Search for Large Rapidity Gap Events in e^+ e^- Annihilation
We investigate the cross-section for the production of a low-mass
colour-singlet cluster in annihilation with a large rapidity gap
between the colour-singlet cluster and the other jets. It is argued that such
events are the cross-channel analogue of large-rapidity-gap events in
deep-inelastic scattering, and therefore could in principle be used to
investigate the analytic continuation of the BFKL pomeron to the positive-
kinematic regime, where one would expect the trajectory to pass through
glueball states. The cross section can be calculated in perturbative QCD, so
that the infrared scale arising from non-perturbative effects, which prevents
an exponential fall-off with rapidity gap in the case of deep-inelastic
scattering, is absent in annihilation. Correspondingly, the cross
section for such events decreases rapidly with increasing rapidity gap.Comment: LATEX file - 21 pages + 15 figure
Coherence and Decoherence in Radiation off Colliding Heavy Ions
We discuss the kinetics of a disoriented chiral condensate, treated as an
open quantum system. We suggest that the problem is analogous to that of a
damped harmonic oscillator. Master equations are used to establish a hierarchy
of relevant time scales. Some phenomenological consequences are briefly
outlined.Comment: 15 latex pages, LPTHE Orsay 93/19, e-mail: [email protected]
Dynamics of a Disoriented Chiral Condensate
We use the linear model to analyse the dynamics of a disoriented
chiral condensate. For idealized boundary conditions appropriate to high energy
collisions, the problem can be reduced to a one dimensional one. The evolution
of the chiral state is then that of a simple dynamical system and can be
studied analytically.Comment: 14 pages Latex, LPTHE Orsay 94/18 , SPhT T94/01
A simple explanation of the non-appearance of physical gluons and quarks
We show that the non-appearance of gluons and quarks as physical particles is
a rigorous and automatic result of the full, i.e. nonperturbative, nonabelian
nature of the color interaction in quantum chromodynamics. This makes it in
general impossible to describe the color field as a collection of elementary
quanta (gluons). Neither can a quark be an elementary quantum of the quark
field, as the color field of which it is the source is itself a source, making
isolated noninteracting quarks, crucial for a physical particle interpretation,
impossible. In geometrical language, the impossibility of quarks and gluons as
physical elementary particles arises due to the fact that the color Yang-Mills
space does not have a constant trivial curvature.
In QCD, the particles ``gluons'' and ``quarks'' are merely artifacts of an
approximation method (the perturbative expansion) and are simply absent in the
exact theory. This also coincides with the empirical, experimental evidence.Comment: 8 pages, Latex (to appear in Can.J.Phys.
Spin and Rotation in General Relativity
Rapporteur's Introduction to the GT8 session of the Ninth Marcel Grossmann
Meeting (Rome, 2000); to appear in the Proceedings.Comment: LaTeX file, no figures, 15 page
Equivalence of the Parke-Taylor and the Fadin-Kuraev-Lipatov amplitudes in the high-energy limit
We give a unified description of tree-level multigluon amplitudes in the
high-energy limit. We represent the Parke-Taylor amplitudes and the
Fadin-Kuraev-Lipatov amplitudes in terms of color configurations that are
ordered in rapidity on a two-sided plot. We show that for the helicity
configurations they have in common the Parke-Taylor amplitudes and the
Fadin-Kuraev-Lipatov amplitudes coincide.Comment: LaTeX, 24 pages (including 4 tar-compressed uuencoded figures
On the non-relativistic limit of charge conjugation in QED
Even if at the level of the non-relativistic limit of full QED, C is not a
symmetry, the limit of this operation does exist for the particular case when
the electromagnetic field is considered a classical external object coupled to
the Dirac field. This result extends the one obtained when fermions are
described by the Schroedinger-Pauli equation. We give the expressions for both
the C matrix and the operator for galilean electrons and positrons
interacting with the external electromagnetic field. The result is relevant in
relation to recent experiments with antihydrogen.Comment: 7 page
Pre-equilibrium dileptons look thermal
The dilepton mass distribution from pre-equilibrium matter in
ultrarelativistic nuclear collisions is indistinguishable from a thermally
produced distribution.Comment: CERN-TH.6813/93, 3 pages (latex) plus 1 figure (uuencoded postscript
file
Higher Order Processes in Electromagnetic Production of Electron Positron Pairs in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions
We study higher-order effects in the electromagnetic production of
electron-positron pairs in relativistic heavy ion collisions. Treating the
field of the heavy ions as an external field and neglecting the interaction
among electrons and positrons, we show that the -pair creation amplitude is
the antisymmetrised product of one-pair creation amplitudes and the vacuum
amplitude. Neglecting contributions coming from exchange terms, we show that
the total probability for pairs is approximately a Poisson distribution. We
investigate further the structure of the reduced one-pair amplitude,
concentrating especially on multiple-particle corrections. We calculate the
first of these corrections in second order Magnus theory based on our previous
result in second-order Born approximation for impact parameter zero.
Explicit calculations show that the total probability is increased up to 10 \%
by this correction for realistic collider parameters. The calculations can also
be used to confirm the use of the Poisson distribution for the total
probability.Comment: 29 pages RevTeX and 12 uuencoded figures (compressed postscript
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