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Gluon saturation and Feynman scaling in leading neutron production
In this paper we extend the color dipole formalism to the study of leading
neutron production in collisions at high energies
and estimate the related observables, which were measured at HERA and may be
analysed in future electron-proton () colliders. In particular, we
calculate the Feynman distribution of leading neutrons, which is
expressed in terms of the pion flux and the photon-pion total cross section. In
the color dipole formalism, the photon-pion cross section is described in terms
of the dipole-pion scattering amplitude, which contains information about the
QCD dynamics at high energies and gluon saturation effects. We consider
different models for the scattering amplitude, which have been used to describe
the inclusive and diffractive HERA data. Moreover, the model dependence of
our predictions with the description of the pion flux is analysed in detail. We
show that the recently released H1 leading neutron spectra can be reproduced
using the color dipole formalism and that these spectra could help us to
observe more clearly gluon saturation effects in future colliders.Comment: 10 pages, 5 figure
Double vector meson production in the International Linear Collider
In this paper we study double vector meson production in
interactions at high energies and, using the color dipole picture, estimate the
main observables which can be probed at the International Linear Collider
(ILC). The total
cross-sections for , , and are computed
and the energy and virtuality dependencies are studied in detail. Our results
demonstrate that the experimental analysis of this process is feasible at the
ILC and it can be useful to constrain the QCD dynamics at high energies.Comment: 11 pages, 8 figure
Renal Pathology in Portuguese HIV-Infected Patients
HIV-infected patients may be affected by a variety of renal disorders. Portugal has a high incidence of HIV2 infection and a low prevalence of HIV-infected patients under dialysis treatment.
The aim of this study was to characterise the type of renal disease in Portuguese HIV-infected patients and to determine if HIV2 infection is associated to renal pathology. Only 60 of the 5158 HIV-infected patients followed in our hospital underwent renal
biopsy. Clinical and laboratory data and the type of renal disease were reviewed.
Male gender was predominant (76.7%), as was
Caucasian race (78.3%). Mean age was 37.9±10.6 years. The majority had criteria for AIDS, 66% were on combined antiretroviral therapy and 18.3% were
on dialysis. The predominant lesions were immunecomplex glomerulonephritis (n=19), tubulointerstitial nephropathy (n=12), focal segmental glomerulosclerosis(n=11), followed by HIVAN (n=8). Other patterns(amyloidosis, vasculitis, minimal change lesion) were
observed. Only three patients were HIV2 infected, and presented diabetic nephropathy, acute tubular necrosis and tubulointerstitial nephritis. No correlations between clinical findings and renal pathology were found.
In conclusion, renal disease in HIV patients has a broad spectrum, and renal biopsy remains the gold standard for establishing the diagnosis and guide treatment. Renal disease is not frequent in HIV2-infected patients, and, when present, is probably
not directly associated with HIV infection
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