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    Hadron Optics: Diffraction Patterns in Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering

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    We show that the Fourier transform of the Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering (DVCS) amplitude with respect to the skewness variable ζ\zeta at fixed invariant momentum transfer squared tt provides a unique way to visualize the structure of the target hadron in the boost-invariant longitudinal coordinate space. The results are analogous to the diffractive scattering of a wave in optics. As a specific example, we utilize the quantum fluctuations of a fermion state at one loop in QED to obtain the behavior of the DVCS amplitude for electron-photon scattering. We then simulate the wavefunctions for a hadron by differentiating the above LFWFs with respect to M2M^2 and study the corresponding DVCS amplitudes in light-front longitudinal space. In both cases we observe that the diffractive patterns in the longitudinal variable conjugate to ζ\zeta sharpen and the positions of the first minima move in with increasing momentum transfer. For fixed tt, higher minima appear at positions which are integral multiples of the lowest minimum. Both these observations strongly support the analogy with diffraction in optics.Comment: Some plots modified, clarifications and references adde

    Hadron Spin Dynamics

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    Spin effects in exclusive and inclusive reactions provide an essential new dimension for testing QCD and unraveling hadron structure. Remarkable new experiments from SLAC, HERMES (DESY), and the Jefferson Laboratory present many challenges to theory, including measurements at HERMES and SMC of the single spin asymmetries in pion electroproduction, where the proton is polarized normal to the scattering plane. This type of single spin asymmetry may be due to the effects of rescattering of the outgoing quark on the spectators of the target proton, an effect usually neglected in conventional QCD analyses. Many aspects of spin, such as single-spin asymmetries and baryon magnetic moments are sensitive to the dynamics of hadrons at the amplitude level, rather than probability distributions. I illustrate the novel features of spin dynamics for relativistic systems by examining the explicit form of the light-front wavefunctions for the two-particle Fock state of the electron in QED, thus connecting the Schwinger anomalous magnetic moment to the spin and orbital momentum carried by its Fock state constituents and providing a transparent basis for understanding the structure of relativistic composite systems and their matrix elements in hadronic physics. I also present a survey of outstanding spin puzzles in QCD, particularly the double transverse spin asymmetry A_{NN} in elastic proton-proton scattering, the J/psi to rho-pi puzzle, and J/psi polarization at the Tevatron.Comment: Concluding theory talk presented at SPIN2001, the Third Circum-Pan-Pacific Symposium on High Energy Physics, October, 2001, Beijin

    Classical sum rules and spin correlations in photoabsorption and photoproduction processes

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    In this paper we study the possibility of generalizing the classical photoabsorption (γabc\gamma a \to b c) sum rules, to processes bcγab c \to \gamma a and crossed helicity amplitudes. In the first case, using detailed balance, the sum rule is written as νthdννKΔσBorn(ν)=0\int_{\nu_{th}}^\infty {\frac{{d\nu}}{\nu}} K\Delta \sigma_{Born} (\nu)=0 where KK is a kinematical constant which depends only on the mass of the particles and the center of mass energy. For other crossed helicity amplitudes, we show that there is a range of values of ss and tt for which the differential cross section for the process γbac\gamma b \to a c or acγba c \to \gamma b in which the helicities of the photon and particle aa have specific values, is equal to the differential cross section for the process in which one of these two helicities is reversed (parallel-antiparallel spin correlation).Comment: 9 pages, 2 figure

    Orbital Angular Momentum in Scalar Diquark Model and QED

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    We compare the orbital angular momentum of the 'quark' in the scalar diquark model as well as that of the electron in QED (to order {\alpha}) obtained from the Jaffe-Manohar de- composition to that obtained from the Ji relation. We estimate the importance of the vector potential in the definition of orbital angular momentum

    The QCD Effective Charge to All Orders

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    Using the pinch technique, we show how to construct the QCD effective charge to all orders.Comment: 4 pages, no figures. Contributed to QCD 02: High-Energy Physics International Conference in Quantum Chromodynamics, Montpellier, France, 2-9 July 200

    Application of the Principle of Maximum Conformality to Top-Pair Production

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    A major contribution to the uncertainty of finite-order perturbative QCD predictions is the perceived ambiguity in setting the renormalization scale μr\mu_r. For example, by using the conventional way of setting μr[mt/2,2mt]\mu_r \in [m_t/2,2m_t], one obtains the total ttˉt \bar{t} production cross-section σttˉ\sigma_{t \bar{t}} with the uncertainty \Delta \sigma_{t \bar{t}}/\sigma_{t \bar{t}}\sim ({}^{+3%}_{-4%}) at the Tevatron and LHC even for the present NNLO level. The Principle of Maximum Conformality (PMC) eliminates the renormalization scale ambiguity in precision tests of Abelian QED and non-Abelian QCD theories. In this paper we apply PMC scale-setting to predict the ttˉt \bar t cross-section σttˉ\sigma_{t\bar{t}} at the Tevatron and LHC colliders. It is found that σttˉ\sigma_{t\bar{t}} remains almost unchanged by varying μrinit\mu^{\rm init}_r within the region of [mt/4,4mt][m_t/4,4m_t]. The convergence of the expansion series is greatly improved. For the (qqˉ)(q\bar{q})-channel, which is dominant at the Tevatron, its NLO PMC scale is much smaller than the top-quark mass in the small xx-region, and thus its NLO cross-section is increased by about a factor of two. In the case of the (gg)(gg)-channel, which is dominant at the LHC, its NLO PMC scale slightly increases with the subprocess collision energy s\sqrt{s}, but it is still smaller than mtm_t for s1\sqrt{s}\lesssim 1 TeV, and the resulting NLO cross-section is increased by 20\sim 20%. As a result, a larger σttˉ\sigma_{t\bar{t}} is obtained in comparison to the conventional scale-setting method, which agrees well with the present Tevatron and LHC data. More explicitly, by setting mt=172.9±1.1m_t=172.9\pm 1.1 GeV, we predict σTevatron,  1.96TeV=7.6260.257+0.265\sigma_{\rm Tevatron,\;1.96\,TeV} = 7.626^{+0.265}_{-0.257} pb, σLHC,  7TeV=171.85.6+5.8\sigma_{\rm LHC,\;7\,TeV} = 171.8^{+5.8}_{-5.6} pb and σLHC,  14TeV=941.326.5+28.4\sigma_{\rm LHC,\;14\,TeV} = 941.3^{+28.4}_{-26.5} pb. [full abstract can be found in the paper.]Comment: 15 pages, 11 figures, 5 tables. Fig.(9) is correcte

    The Spin Structure of a Polarized Photon

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    We show that the first moment of the spin-dependent structure function g1γ(x,Q2)g_1^{\gamma}(x,Q^2) of a real photon vanishes independent of the momentum transfer Q2Q^2 it is probed with. This result is non-perturbative: it holds to all orders in perturbation theory in abelian and non-abelian gauge theory and at every twist.Comment: LaTex, 13 page

    Implication of the overlap representation for modelling generalized parton distributions

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    Based on a field theoretically inspired model of light-cone wave functions, we derive valence-like generalized parton distributions and their double distributions from the wave function overlap in the parton number conserved s-channel. The parton number changing contributions in the t-channel are restored from duality. In our construction constraints of positivity and polynomiality are simultaneously satisfied and it also implies a model dependent relation between generalized parton distributions and transverse momentum dependent parton distribution functions. The model predicts that the t-behavior of resulting hadronic amplitudes depends on the Bjorken variable x_Bj. We also propose an improved ansatz for double distributions that embeds this property.Comment: 15 pages, 8 eps figure

    Possible multiparticle ridge-like correlations in very high multiplicity proton-proton collisions

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    The CMS collaboration at the LHC has reported a remarkable and unexpected phenomenon in very high-multiplicity high energy proton-proton collisions: a positive correlation between two particles produced at similar azimuthal angles, spanning a large range in rapidity. We suggest that this "ridge"-like correlation may be a reflection of the rare events generated by the collision of aligned flux tubes connecting the valence quarks in the wave functions of the colliding protons. The "spray" of particles resulting from the approximate line source produced in such inelastic collisions then gives rise to events with a strong correlation between particles produced over a large range of both positive and negative rapidity. We suggest an additional variable that is sensitive to such a line source which is related to a commonly used measure, ellipticity.Comment: Updated figure. Version to be published in Physics Letters
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