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Proceedings of the workshop "Standard Model at the LHC" University College London 30 March - 1 April 2009
Proceedings from a 3-day discussion on Standard Model discoveries with the
first LHC dataComment: 9 contributions to the proceedings of the LHC Standard Model worksho
Elastic and quasi-elastic and scattering in the Dipole Model
We have in earlier papers presented an extension of Mueller's dipole cascade
model, which includes sub-leading effects from energy conservation and running
coupling as well as colour suppressed saturation effects from pomeron loops via
a ``dipole swing''. The model was applied to describe the total and diffractive
cross sections in and collisions, and also the elastic cross
section in scattering.
In this paper we extend the model to describe the corresponding quasi-elastic
cross sections in , namely the exclusive production of vector mesons
and deeply virtual compton scattering. Also for these reactions we find a good
agrement with measured cross sections. In addition we obtain a reasonable
description of the -dependence of the elastic and quasi-elastic
cross sections
Deep inelastic scattering and "elastic" diffraction
We examine the total cross section of virtual photons on protons,
, at low and its
connection with ``elastic'' diffractive production in the two-gluon exchange dynamics for the virtual forward
Compton scattering amplitude. Solely based on the generic structure of
two-gluon exchange, we establish that the cross section is described by the
(imaginary part of the) amplitude for forward scattering of vector
states, . The
generalized vector dominance/color dipole picture (GVD/CDP) is accordingly
established to only rest on the two-gluon-exchange generic structure. This is
explicitly seen by the sum rules that allow one to directly relate the total
cross section to the cross section for elastic diffractive forward production,
, of vector states.Comment: 24 pages, latex file with three eps figures. BI-TP 2002/2
Interference in Exclusive Vector Meson Production in Heavy Ion Collisions
Photons emitted from the electromagnetic fields of relativistic heavy ions
can fluctuate into quark anti-quark pairs and scatter from a target nucleus,
emerging as vector mesons. These coherent interactions are identifiable by
final states consisting of the two nuclei and a vector meson with a small
transverse momentum. The emitters and targets can switch roles, and the two
possibilities are indistinguishable, so interference may occur. Vector mesons
are negative parity so the amplitudes have opposite signs. When the meson
transverse wavelength is larger than the impact parameter, the interference is
large and destructive.
The short-lived vector mesons decay before amplitudes from the two sources
can overlap, and so cannot interfere directly. However, the decay products are
emitted in an entangled state, and the interference depends on observing the
complete final state. The non-local wave function is an example of the
Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox.Comment: 13 pages with 3 figures; submitted to Physical Review Letter
Properties of Regge Trajectories
Early Chew-Frautschi plots show that meson and baryon Regge trajectoies are
approximately linear and non-intersecting. In this paper, we reconstruct all
Regge trajectories from the most recent data. Our plots show that meson
trajectories are non-linear and intersecting. We also show that all current
meson Regge trajectories models are ruled out by data.Comment: 30 pages, latex, 18 figures, to be published in Physical Review
On the Energy Dependence of the Dipole-Proton Cross Section in Deep Inelastic Scattering
We study the dipole picture of high-energy virtual-photon-proton scattering.
It is shown that different choices for the energy variable in the dipole cross
section used in the literature are not related to each other by simple
arguments equating the typical dipole size and the inverse photon virtuality,
contrary to what is often stated. We argue that the good quality of fits to
structure functions that use Bjorken-x as the energy variable - which is
strictly speaking not justified in the dipole picture - can instead be
understood as a consequence of the sign of scaling violations that occur for
increasing Q^2 at fixed small x. We show that the dipole formula for massless
quarks has the structure of a convolution. From this we obtain derivative
relations between the structure function F_2 at large and small Q^2 and the
dipole-proton cross section at small and large dipole size r, respectively.Comment: 27 page
Diffractive production and the total cross section in deep inelastic scattering
We explore the consequences for diffractive production, gamma* p --> X p, in
deep inelastic scattering at low values of x\sim Q^2/W^2 <<1 that follow from
our recent representation of the total photoabsorption cross section,
sigma_{gamma* p}, in the generalized vector dominance/ color dipole
picture(GVD/CDP) that is based on the generic structure of the
two-gluon-exchange from QCD. Sum rules are derived that relate the transverse
and the longitudinal (virtual) photoabsorption cross section to diffractive
forward production of q q-bar states that carry photon quantum numbers
("elastic diffraction"). Agreement with experiment in the W^2 and Q^2
dependence is found for M_X^2/Q^2<<1, where M_X is the mass of the produced
system X. An additional component ("inelastic diffraction"), not actively
contributing to the forward Compton amplitude, is needed for diffractive
production at high values of M_X. Our previous theoretical representation of
the total photoabsorption cross section sigma_{gamma* p}=sigma_{gamma* p}(eta),
in terms of the scaling variable eta=(Q^2+m_0^2)/Lambda^2(W^2) is extended to
include the entire kinematic domain, x==0, where
scaling in eta holds experimentally.Comment: 19 pages with 4 figures,(eps and ps files), Late
The description of F2 at small x incorporating angular ordering
We study the perturbative QCD description of the HERA measurements of using a gluon distribution that is obtained from an evolution
incorporating angular ordering of the gluon emissions, and which embodies both
GLAP and BFKL dynamics. We compare the predictions with recent HERA data for
. We present estimates of the charm component and of .Comment: 8 LaTeX pages + 4 uuencoded figure
The Glueball Spectrum from a Potential Model
The spectrum of two-gluon glueballs below 3 GeV is investigated in a
potential model with dynamical gluon mass using variational method. The short
distance potential is approximated by one-gluon exchange, while the long
distance part is taken as a breakable string. The mass and size of the radial
as well as orbital excitations up to principle quantum number n=3 are
evaluated. The predicted mass ratios are compared with experimental and lattice
results.Comment: Revtex, 6 pages with 1 eps figur
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