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Gluon saturation and the Froissart bound: a simple approach
At very high energies we expect that the hadronic cross sections satisfy the
Froissart bound, which is a well-established property of the strong
interactions. In this energy regime we also expect the formation of the Color
Glass Condensate, characterized by gluon saturation and a typical momentum
scale: the saturation scale . In this paper we show that if a saturation
window exists between the nonperturbative and perturbative regimes of Quantum
Chromodynamics (QCD), the total cross sections satisfy the Froissart bound.
Furthermore, we show that our approach allows us to describe the high energy
experimental data on total cross sections.Comment: 6 pages, 5 figures. Includes additional figures, discussion and
reference
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
Tetraquark Production in Double Parton Scattering
We develop a model to study tetraquark production in hadronic collisions. We
focus on double parton scattering and formulate a version of the color
evaporation model for the production of the and of the
tetraquark, a state composed by the quarks. We find that
the production cross section grows rapidly with the collision energy
and make predictions for the forthcoming higher energy data of the LHC.Comment: 13 pages, 3 figures. Corrections in the text and reference
Perspective chapter: MOOC: a decade later! What Is the current situation in teacher education?
The growth of distance education, even if in emergency modalities such as those compelled by the pandemic context in which we live in the last 3 years, seems to
have potentiated a second massification of the use of MOOC. In this sense, it looks important to us to make research on the current status of these courses, namely, regarding their adoption in the continuing education of teachers. The study was based on a survey of the MOOCs carried out in the context of in-service teacher train-
ing in Portugal. The exploratory research focused only on the last 3 years—which involved the pandemic. The information was collected in the NAU platform, but also by searching for keywords in the search engines of MOOCs carried out in the field of teacher training. This way it will be possible to understand, in a more concrete and deeper way, the impact of this technology on teacher training in Portugal and the contribution it can make to improve the quality of the teacher training.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
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