134 research outputs found
Elastic constants and dynamics in nematic liquid crystals
In this paper we present molecular dynamics calculations of the Frank elastic constants, and associated time correlation functions, in nematic liquid crystals. We study two variants of the Gay-Berne potential, and use system sizes of half a million molecules, significantly larger than in previous studies of elastic behaviour. Equilibrium orientational fluctuations in reciprocal (k-) space were calculated, to determine the elastic constants by fitting at low k; our results indicate that small system size may be a source of inaccuracy in previous work. Furthermore the dynamics of the Gay-Berne nematic were studied by calculating time correlation functions of components of the order tensor, together with associated components of the velocity field, for a set of wave vectors k. Confirming our earlier work, we found exponential decay for splay and twist correlations, and oscillatory exponential decay for the bend correlation. In the present work, we confirm similar behaviour for the corresponding velocity components. In all cases the decay rates, and oscillation frequencies, were found to be accurately proportional to k-squared for small k, as predicted by the equations of nematodynamics. However, the observation of oscillatory bend fluctuations, and corresponding oscillatory shear flow decay, is in contradiction to the usual assumptions appearing in the literature, and in standard texts. We discuss the advantages and drawbacks of using large systems in these calculations
A double parton scattering background to Higgs boson production at the LHC
The experimental capability of recognizing the presence of b quarks in
complex hadronic final states has addressed the attention towards final states
with b\bar{b} pairs for observing the production of the Higgs boson at the LHC,
in the intermediate Higgs mass range.We point out that double parton scattering
processes are going to represent a sizeable background to the process.Comment: 9 pages, 2 figure
Signals for Double Parton Scattering at the Fermilab Tevatron
Four double-parton scattering processes are examined at the Fermilab Tevatron
energy. With optimized kinematical cuts and realistic parton level simulation
for both signals and backgrounds, we find large samples of four-jet and
three-jet+one-photon events with signal to background ratio being 20\%-30\%,
and much cleaner signals from two-jet+two-photon and two-jet+ final
states. The last channel may provide the first unambiguous observation of
multiple parton interactions, even with the existing data sample accumulated by
the Tevatron collider experiments.Comment: 7 pages, plain LaTeX, 2 tables, no figures. A compressed PS file is
available by anonymous ftp at
ftp://phenom.physics.wisc.edu/pub/preprints/1996/madph-96-945.ps.
Double parton scatterings in b-quark pairs production at the LHC
A sizable rate of events where two pairs of b-quarks are produced
contemporarily is foreseen at the CERN LHC, as a consequence of the large
parton luminosity. At very high energies both single and the double parton
scatterings contribute to the process, the latter mechanisms, although power
suppressed, giving the dominant contribution to the integrated cross section.Comment: 17 pages, 6 figure
Proton Structure in Transverse Space and the Effective Cross Section
The observation of double parton collisions by CDF has provided the first
direct information on the structure of the proton in transverse space. The
actual quantity which has been measured is the `effective cross section'
, which is related to the transverse size of the region where
hard interactions are localized. The actual value which has been measured is
sizably smaller than naively expected and it is an indication of important
correlation effects in the many-body parton distribution of the proton. We
discuss the problem pointing out a possible source of correlations in the
proton structure, which could have a significant effect on the value of
.Comment: 12 pages, 2 figure
Aspects of four-jet production in polarized proton-proton collisions
We examine the intrinsic spin-dependence of the dominant subprocess contribution to four-jet production in polarized proton-proton
collisions using helicity amplitude techniques. We find that the partonic
level, longitudinal spin-spin asymmetry, , is intrinsically large
in the kinematic regions probed in experiments detecting four isolated jets.
Such events may provide another qualitative or semi-quantitative test of the
spin-structure of QCD in planned polarized collisions at RHIC.Comment: 9 pages, LaTeX, 2 uuencoded postscript files attache
QCD and models on multiplicities in and interactions
A brief survey of theoretical approaches to description of multiplicity
distributions in high energy processes is given. It is argued that the
multicomponent nature of these processes leads to some peculiar characteristics
observed experimentally. Predictions for LHC energies are presented. It is
shown that similarity of the energy dependence of average multiplicities in
different reactions is not enough alone to suggest the universal mechanism of
particle production in strongly-interacting systems. Other characteristics of
multiplicity distributions depend on the nature of colliding partners.Comment: 16 pages, 11 figures, Phys. Atom. Nuc
Associated Production of Heavy Quarkonia and Electroweak Bosons at Present and Future Colliders
We investigate the associated production of heavy quarkonia, with
angular-momentum quantum numbers ^{2S+1}L_J = ^1S_0, ^3S_1, ^1P_1, ^3P_J (J =
0, 1, 2), and photons, Z bosons, and W bosons in photon-photon, photon-hadron,
and hadron-hadron collisions within the factorization formalism of
nonrelativistic quantum chromodynamics providing all contributing partonic
cross sections in analytic form. In the case of photoproduction, we also
include the resolved-photon contributions. We present numerical results for the
processes involving J/psi and chi_{cJ} mesons appropriate for the Fermilab
Tevatron, CERN LHC, DESY TESLA, operated in the e^+ e^- and gamma gamma modes,
and DESY THERA.Comment: 41 pages (Latex), 10 figures (Postscript
Evidence for Colour-Octet Mechanism from CERN LEP2 gamma gamma -> J/psi + X Data
We present theoretical predictions for the transverse-momentum distribution
of J/psi mesons promptly produced in gamma gamma collisions within the
factorization formalism of nonrelativistic quantum chromodynamics, including
the contributions from both direct and resolved photons, and we perform a
conservative error analysis. The fraction of J/psi mesons from decays of
bottom-flavoured hadrons is estimated to be negligibly small. New data taken by
the DELPHI Collaboration at LEP2 nicely confirm these predictions, while they
disfavour those obtained within the traditional colour-singlet model.Comment: 11 pages (Latex), 3 figures (Postscript); updated experimental data
included, references added, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Let
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