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Nuclear shadowing in inclusive and tagged deuteron structure functions and extraction of F_2^p-F_2^n at small x from electron-deuteron collider data
We review predictions of the theory of leading twist nuclear shadowing for
inclusive unpolarized and polarized deuteron structure functions F_2^D, g_1^D
and b_1^D and for the tagged deuteron structure function F_2^D(x,Q^2,\vec{p}).
We analyze the possibility to extract the neutron structure function F_2^n from
electron-deuteron data and demonstrate that an account of leading twist nuclear
shadowing leads to large corrections for the extraction of F_2^n from the
future deuteron collider data both in the inclusive and in the tagged structure
function modes. We suggest several strategies to address the extraction of
F_2^n and to measure at the same time the effect of nuclear shadowing via the
measurement of the distortion of the proton spectator spectrum in the
semi-inclusive e D \to e^{\prime}NX process. We address the issue of the final
state interactions in the e D \to e^{\prime}NX process and examine how they
affect the extraction of F_2^n.Comment: 19 pages, 7 figures. Published in Mod. Phys. Lett.
Asymptotic behavior of double parton distribution functions
The double parton distribution functions are investigated in the region of
small longitudinal momentum fractions in the leading logarithm approximation of
perturbative QCD. It is shown that these functions have the factorization
property in the case of one slow and one fast parton.Comment: 7 pages, revtex
Probing coherent charmonium photoproduction off light nuclei at medium energies
We demonstrate how the elementary amplitudes , the
amplitude of the nondiagonal transition, and
the total and cross sections can be determined from
measurements of the coherent and photoproduction off light
nuclei at moderate energies. For this purpose we provide a detailed numerical
analysis of the coherent charmonium photoproduction off silicon within the
generalized vector dominance model (GVDM) adjusted to account for the physics
of charmonium models and color transparency phenomenon.Comment: 8 pages, 5 figures (color
Double parton scattering in double logarithm approximation of perturbative QCD
Using the explicit form of the known single distribution functions (the
Green's functions) in the double logarithm approximation of perturbative QCD,
we analyze the structure of splitting diagrams as a source of double parton
perturbative correlations in the proton. The related phenomenological effects
are discussed for the conditions of the LHC experiments.Comment: 8 pages, 1 figure, Refs. and explanations added, published version
(Phys. Rev. D
Resolving the J/\psi RHIC puzzles at LHC
Experiments with gold-gold collisions at RHIC have revealed (i) stronger
suppression of charmonium production at forward rapidity than at midrapidity
and (ii) the similarity between the suppression degrees at RHIC and SPS
energies. To describe these findings we employ the model that includes nuclear
shadowing effects, calculated within the Glauber-Gribov theory,
rapidity-dependent absorptive mechanism, caused by energy-momentum
conservation, and dissociation and recombination of the charmonium due to
interaction with co-moving matter. The free parameters of the model are tuned
and fixed by comparison with experimental data at lower energies. A good
agreement with the RHIC results concerning the rapidity and centrality
distributions is obtained for both heavy Au+Au and light Cu+Cu colliding
system. For pA and A+A collisions at LHC the model predicts stronger
suppression of the charmonium and bottomonium yields in stark contrast to
thermal model predictions.Comment: SQM2008 proceedings, 6 page
A fresh look at double parton scattering
A revised formula for the inclusive cross section for double parton
scattering in terms of the modified collinear two-parton distributions
extracted from deep inelastic scattering is suggested. The possible
phenomenological issues are discussed.Comment: 6 pages, 2 figures, revtex4, discussion slightly modified, 3
references adde
Vector Meson Production in Ultraperipheral Heavy Ion Collisions
The ultraperipheral heavy ion collisions (UPC's) are an important alternative
to study the QCD dynamics until the next generation of
colliders become reality. Due to the coherent action of all the protons in the
nucleus, the electromagnetic field is very strong and the resulting flux of
equivalent photons is large, which allows to study two-photon as well as
photonuclear interactions at high energies. In this paper we present a brief
review of the vector meson production in UPC's at high energies using the QCD
color dipole approach to describe their photonuclear production and the
perturbative QCD Pomeron (BFKL dynamics) to describe the double meson
production in photon-photon process. Predictions for rates and integrated cross
sections are presented for energies of RHIC and LHC.Comment: 16 pages, 1 figure. Version to be published in Journal of Physics G:
Nuclear and Particle Physic
Gluon-gluon contributions to the production of continuum diphoton pairs at hadron colliders
We compute the contributions to continuum photon pair production at hadron
colliders from processes initiated by gluon-gluon and gluon-quark scattering
into two photons through a four-leg virtual quark loop. Complete two-loop cross
sections in perturbative quantum chromodynamics are combined with contributions
from soft parton radiation resummed to all orders in the strong coupling
strength. The structure of the resummed cross section is examined in detail,
including a new type of unintegrated parton distribution function affecting
azimuthal angle distributions of photons in the pair's rest frame. As a result
of this analysis, we predict diphoton transverse momentum distributions in
gluon-gluon scattering in wide ranges of kinematic parameters at the Fermilab
Tevatron collider and the CERN Large Hadron Collider.Comment: 28 pages, 11 figures; published versio
Prompt neutrino fluxes from atmospheric charm
We calculate the prompt neutrino flux from atmospheric charm production by
cosmic rays, using the dipole picture in a perturbative QCD framework, which
incorporates the parton saturation effects present at high energies. We compare
our results with the next-to-leading order perturbative QCD result and find
that saturation effects are large for neutrino energies above 10^6 GeV, leading
to a substantial suppression of the prompt neutrino flux. We comment on the
range of prompt neutrino fluxes due to theoretical uncertainties.Comment: 13 pages with 11 figures; expanded discussion, added references,
version to be published in Phys. Rev.
Increase with energy of parton transverse momenta in the fragmentation region in DIS and related phenomena
The dipole and the DGLAP approximations are combined with the
factorization theorem to demonstrate the fundamental property of pQCD: smaller
is the size of the colorless quark-gluon configurations in the fragmentation
region, more rapid is the increase of its interaction with the target as a
function of energy. First, we show that the transverse momenta of the
quark(antiquark) within the pair, produced in the fragmentation
region by the strongly virtual photon, increase with the decrease of x for
fixed . As practical consequence of these effects we show that the cross
sections of DIS and DVCS. We predict that the ratio of DVCS to DIS amplitudes
should very slowly approach one from above at very large collision energies.
Second, we study a closely related phenomenon of the increase of the transverse
momenta with the energy of the characteristic transverse momenta of the
gluon/quark configurations responsible for the transition to the black disk
regime. We discuss the impact of this phenomenona on the slowing of the
dependence on the initial energy of the coherence length. We demonstrate that a
rapid projectile has the biconcave shape, which is different from the
expectations of the preQCD parton model where a fast hadron has a pancake
shape. We show that the increase of the transverse momenta leads to a new
expression for the total cross section of a DIS scattering at very large
energies, relevant to LHeC and LHC. We discuss the impact of the discovered
phenomena on the hard processes in pp collisions, and on the dominance
ofdifferent phases of chiral and conformal symmetries in the central and
peripheral pp, pA, and AA collisions.Comment: 37 pages, 6 figures, uses file pdfsync.sty some typos and
misspellings are eliminate
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