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New developments in the statistical approach of parton distributions
We recall how parton distributions are constructed in a statistical physical
picture of the nucleon. The chiral properties of QCD lead to strong relations
between quarks and antiquarks distributions and the importance of the Pauli
exclusion principle is also emphasized. A global next-to-leading order QCD
analysis of unpolarized and polarized deep-inelastic scattering data allows to
determine a small number of free parameters. Some predictions are compared to
recent experimental results and we discuss the prospects of this physical
framework.Comment: 10 pages, 12 figures. Invited talk presented at the " Corfu Summer
Institute on EPP,CORFU2005, Corfu, Greece, September 4-26, 2005. To be
published in Journal of Physics, Conference Series (2006
LHC Coverage of RPV MSSM with Light Stops
We examine the sensitivity of recent LHC searches to signatures of
supersymmetry with R-parity violation (RPV). Motivated by naturalness of the
Higgs potential, which would favor light third-generation squarks, and the
stringent LHC bounds on spectra in which the gluino or first and second
generation squarks are light, we focus on scenarios dominated by the pair
production of light stops. We consider the various possible direct and cascade
decays of the stop that involve the trilinear RPV operators. We find that in
many cases, the existing searches exclude stops in the natural mass range and
beyond. However, typically there is little or no sensitivity to cases dominated
by UDD operators or LQD operators involving taus. We propose several ideas for
searches which could address the existing gaps in experimental coverage of
these signals.Comment: 41 pages, 12 figures; v2: included new searches (see footnote 10),
minor corrections and improvement
Precision Measurements of A^n1 in the Deep Inelastic Regime
We have performed precision measurements of the double-spin virtual-photon asymmetry A1 on the neutron in the deep inelastic scattering regime, using an open-geometry, large-acceptance spectrometer and a longitudinally and transversely polarized 3He target. Our data cover a wide kinematic range 0.277 ≤ x ≤ 0.548 at an average Q 2 value of 3.078 (GeV/c)2, doubling the available high-precision neutron data in this x range. We have combined our results with world data on proton targets to make a leading-order extraction of the ratio of polarized-to-unpolarized parton distribution functions for up quarks and for down quarks in the same kinematic range. Our data are consistent with a previous observation of an An 1 zero crossing near x = 0.5. We find no evidence of a transition to a positive slope in (d + ¯ d)/(d + ¯ d) up to x = 0.54
Neutron Transversity at Jefferson Lab
Nucleon transversity and single transverse spin asymmetries have been the
recent focus of large efforts by both theorists and experimentalists. On-going
and planned experiments from HERMES, COMPASS and RHIC are mostly on the proton
or the deuteron. Presented here is a planned measurement of the neutron
transversity and single target spin asymmetries at Jefferson Lab in Hall A
using a transversely polarized He target. Also presented are the results
and plans of other neutron transverse spin experiments at Jefferson Lab.
Finally, the factorization for semi-inclusive DIS studies at Jefferson Lab is
discussed.Comment: 8 pages, 2 figures, proceedings of Como Transversity05 Worksho
Determination of two-photon exchange amplitudes from elastic electron-proton scattering data
Using the available cross section and polarization data for elastic
electron-proton scattering, we provide an extraction of the two-photon exchange
amplitudes at a common value of four-momentum transfer, around Q^2 = 2.5 GeV^2.
This analysis also predicts the e^+ p / e^- p elastic scattering cross section
ratio, which will be measured by forthcoming experiments.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figures, updated error analysi
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