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Slow Proton Production in Semi-Inclusive Deep Inelastic Scattering off Deuteron and Complex Nuclei: Hadronization and Final State Interaction Effects
The effects of the final state interaction in slow proton production in semi
inclusive deep inelastic scattering processes off nuclei, A(e,e'p)X, are
investigated in details within the spectator and target fragmentation
mechanisms; in the former mechanism, the hard interaction on a nucleon of a
correlated pair leads, by recoil, to the emission of the partner nucleon,
whereas in the latter mechanism proton is produced when the diquark, which is
formed right after the visrtual photon-quark interaction, captures a quark from
the vacuum. Unlike previous papers on the subject, particular attention is paid
on the effects of the final state interaction of the hadronizing quark with the
nuclear medium within an approach based upon an effective time-dependent cross
section which combines the soft and hard parts of hadronization dynamics in
terms of the string model and perturbative QCD, respectively. It is shown that
the final state interaction of the hadronizing quark with the medium plays a
relevant role both in deuteron and complex nuclei; nonetheless, kinematical
regions where final state interaction effects are minimized can experimentally
be selected, which would allow one to investigate the structure functions of
nucleons embedded in the nuclear medium; likewise, regions where the
interaction of the struck hadronizing quark with the nuclear medium is
maximized can be found, which would make it possible to study non perturbative
hadronization mechanisms.Comment: 35 pages, 12 figures, accepted for pubblication in Phys. Rev.
Correlation femtoscopy of small systems
The basic principles of the correlation femtoscopy, including its
correspondence to the Hanbury Brown and Twiss intensity interferometry, are
re-examined. The main subject of the paper is an analysis of the correlation
femtoscopy when the source size is as small as the order of the uncertainty
limit. It is about 1 fm for the current high energy experiments. Then the
standard femtoscopy model of random sources is inapplicable. The uncertainty
principle leads to the partial indistinguishability and coherence of closely
located emitters that affect the observed femtoscopy scales. In thermal systems
the role of corresponding coherent length is taken by the thermal de Broglie
wavelength that also defines the size of a single emitter. The formalism of
partially coherent phases in the amplitudes of closely located individual
emitters is used for the quantitative analysis. The general approach is
illustrated analytically for the case of the Gaussian approximation for
emitting sources. A reduction of the interferometry radii and a suppression of
the Bose-Einstein correlation functions for small sources due to the
uncertainty principle are found. There is a positive correlation between the
source size and the intercept of the correlation function. The peculiarities of
the non-femtoscopic correlations caused by minijets and fluctuations of the
initial states of the systems formed in and collisions are also
analyzed. The factorization property for the contributions of femtoscopic and
non-femtoscopic correlations into complete correlation function is observed in
numerical calculations in a wide range of the model parameters.Comment: 34 pages, 5 figures. In the version 4 some stylistic improvements
were made, some misprints were corrected. The results and conclusions are not
change
Portfolio Allocation and Alternative Structures of the Standard Reinsurance Agreement
This paper examines how insurance companies participating in delivery of crop insurance would change patterns of portfolio allocation across reinsurance funds in reaction to the 2005 Standard Reinsurance Agreement. The returns of insurance companies under the SRA are calculated using a simulation model. An heuristic allocation rule is introduced in order to imitate portfolio allocation strategies of participating companies. The main conclusion of the analysis is that the bulk of changes in portfolio allocations are likely to be caused by the introduction of "retained net book quota share" reinsurance rather than adjustments in the cession limits and retention requirements for the Assigned Risk Fund.crop insurance, portfolio allocation strategies, reinsurance funds, Standard Reinsurance Agreement, Risk and Uncertainty,
Economic Analysis of the Standard Reinsurance Agreement
The paper presents an economic analysis of the Standard Reinsurance Agreement (SRA), the contract that governs the relationship between the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation and the private insurance companies that deliver crop insurance products to farmers. The paper outlines provisions of the SRA and describes the modeling methodology behind the SRA simulator, a computer program developed to assist crop insurers and policymakers in assessing the economic impact of the Agreement. The simulator is then used to analyze how the SRA affects returns from underwriting crop insurance at various levels of aggregation.Risk and Uncertainty,
High energy neutrino in a nuclear environment: mirror asymmetry of the shadowing effect
The parity non-conservation effect in diffractive charged current DIS is
quantified in terms of color dipole sizes of left-handed and right-handed
electroweak bosons. We identify the origin and estimate the strength of the
left-right asymmetry effect and present comparison with experimental data on
the parity-odd structure function .
We study the shadowing effect in absorption of left-handed and right-handed
-bosons by atomic nuclei. The target nucleus is found to be quite
transparent for the charmed-strange Fock component of the light-cone in
the helicity state and rather opaque for the dipole with
.Comment: 11 pages, 2 figures, Talk presented at XXXIII International
Conference on High Energy Physics 26.07.06-02.08.06 Moscow, version to be
publishe
Covariant boost and structure functions of baryons in Gross-Neveu models
Baryons in the large N limit of two-dimensional Gross-Neveu models are
reconsidered. The time-dependent Dirac-Hartree-Fock approach is used to boost a
baryon to any inertial frame and shown to yield the covariant energy-momentum
relation. Momentum distributions are computed exactly in arbitrary frames and
used to interpolate between the rest frame and the infinite momentum frame,
where they are related to structure functions. Effects from the Dirac sea
depend sensitively on the occupation fraction of the valence level and the bare
fermion mass and do not vanish at infinite momentum. In the case of the kink
baryon, they even lead to divergent quark and antiquark structure functions at
x=0.Comment: 13 pages, 12 figures; v2: minor correction
Self-Consistency Requirement in High-Energy Nuclear Scattering
Practically all serious calculations of exclusive particle production in
ultra-relativistic nuclear or hadronic interactions are performed in the
framework of Gribov-Regge theory or the eikonalized parton model scheme.
It is the purpose of this paper to point out serious inconsistencies in the
above-mentioned approaches.
We will demonstrate that requiring theoretical self-consistency reduces the
freedom in modeling high energy nuclear scattering enormously.
We will introduce a fully self-consistent formulation of the
multiple-scattering scheme in the framework of a Gribov-Regge type effective
theory.
In addition, we develop new computational techniques which allow for the
first time a satisfactory solution of the problem in the sense that calculation
s of observable quantities can be done strictly within a self-consistent
formalism.Comment: 7 pages, 6 figure
Absorption in Ultra-Peripheral Nucleus-Atom Collisions in Crystal
The Glauber theory description of particle- and nucleus-crystal Coulomb
interactions at high-energy is developed. The allowance for the lattice thermal
vibrations is shown to produce strong absorption effect which is of prime
importance for quantitative understanding of the coherent Coulomb excitation of
ultra-relativistic particles and nuclei passing through the crystal.Comment: 8 pages, LaTe
Causal signal transmission by quantum fields. IV: The causal Wick theorem
Wick's theorem in the Schwinger-Perel-Keldysh closed-time-loop formalism is
written in a form where the place of contractions is taken by the linear
response function of the field. This result demonstrates that the physical
information supplied by Wick's theorem for operators is propagation of the free
field in space and time.Comment: Final version, to appear in Phys Rev
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