83 research outputs found
Influence of working environments on fatigue crack propagation in high nitrogen steels
The characteristic parameters dependence under cyclic deformation in hydrogen,
chloride environments and the subsequent selective dissolution has been studied. For high
nitrogen steels and welded joints it has been established that mechanical stresses accelerate
general dissolution of an alloy in different ways and lead to the formation of a surface layer
morphology which is different from the original one. Welded joints characterized by a higher
corrosion fatigue resistance in all investigated solutions, except saturated cupper chloride
solution
Baryon stopping and saturation physics in relativistic collisions
We investigate baryon transport in relativistic heavy-ion collisions at
energies reached at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron, BNL Relativistic
Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC), and CERN LHC in the model of saturation. An
analytical scaling law is derived within the color glass condensate framework
based on small-coupling QCD. Transverse momentum spectra, net-baryon rapidity
distributions and their energy, mass and centrality dependences are well
described. In a comparison with RHIC data in Au + Au collisions at sqrt (s_NN)
= 62.4 GeV and 200 GeV, the gradual approach to the gluon saturation regime is
investigated, and limits for the saturation-scale exponent are determined.
Predictions for net-baryon rapidity spectra and the mean rapidity loss in
central Pb + Pb collisions at LHC energies of sqrt (s_NN) = 5.52 TeV are made.Comment: 11 pages, 10 Figures; improved figure inscriptions, corrected typos,
minor changes in text/titl
Baryon Stopping as a new Probe of Geometric Scaling
We suggest to use net-baryon rapidity distributions in central relativistic
heavy-ion collisions at SPS, RHIC and LHC energies in order to probe saturation
physics. Within the color glass condensate framework based on small-coupling
QCD, net-baryon rapidity distributions are shown to exhibit geometric scaling.
In a comparison with RHIC data in Au + Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 62.4 GeV
and 200 GeV the gradual approach to the gluon saturation regime is
investigated. Predictions for net-baryon rapidity spectra and the mean rapidity
loss in central Pb + Pb collisions at LHC energies of sqrt (s_NN) = 5.5 TeV are
made.Comment: 4 pages 3 figures; calculation and figures now for net baryons
instead of net protons; modified conclusion
Ultrahigh energy neutrinos and non-linear QCD dynamics
The ultrahigh energy neutrino-nucleon cross sections are computed taking into
account different phenomenological implementations of the non-linear QCD
dynamic s. Based on the color dipole framework, the results for the saturation
model supplemented by DGLAP evolution as well as for the BFKL formalism in the
geometric scaling regime are presented. They are contrasted with recent
calculations using NLO DGLAP and unified BFKL-DGLAP formalisms.Comment: 5 pages, 2 figures. Version to be published in Physical Review
Geometric scaling as traveling waves
We show the relevance of the nonlinear Fisher and Kolmogorov-Petrovsky-
Piscounov (KPP) equation to the problem of high energy evolution of the QCD
amplitudes. We explain how the traveling wave solutions of this equation are
related to geometric scaling, a phenomenon observed in deep-inelastic
scattering experiments. Geometric scaling is for the first time shown to result
from an exact solution of nonlinear QCD evolution equations. Using general
results on the KPP equation, we compute the velocity of the wave front, which
gives the full high energy dependence of the saturation scale.Comment: 4 pages, 1 figure. v2: references adde
On the Gluon Regge Trajectory in
We recalculate the gluon Regge trajectory in next-to-leading order to clarify
a discrepancy between two results in the literature on the constant part. We
confirm the result obtained by Fadin et al.~\cite{FFK}. The effects on the
anomalous dimension and on the behavior of inclusive cross
sections are also discussed.Comment: 8 pages Latex + 1 style file all compressed by uufile
The Color Dipole Picture of low-x DIS: Model-Independent and Model-Dependent Results
We present a detailed examination of the color-dipole picture (CDP) of
low- deep inelastic scattering. We discriminate model-independent results,
not depending on a specific parameterization of the dipole cross section, from
model-dependent ones. The model-independent results include the ratio of the
longitudinal to the transverse photoabsorption cross section at large , or
equivalently the ratio of the longitudinal to the unpolarized proton structure
function, , as well as the low- scaling
behavior of the total photoabsorption cross section as for
, and as for .
Here, denotes the low- scaling variable, with being
the saturation scale. The model-independent analysis also implies
at any for asymptotically
large energy, . Consistency with pQCD evolution determines the underlying
gluon distribution and the numerical value of in the expression
for the saturation scale, . In the
model-dependent analysis, by restricting the mass of the actively contributing
fluctuations by an energy-dependent upper bound, we extend the
validity of the color-dipole picture to . The
theoretical results agree with the world data on DIS for .Comment: 77 pages, 30 figure
Probing QCD dynamics in two-photon interactions at high energies
In this paper the two-photon interactions at high energies are investigated
considering different approaches for the QCD dynamics. In particular, we
calculate the total cross section in different theoretical
approches and present a comparison among the predictions of the BFKL dynamics
at leading and next-to-leading order with those from saturation physics. We
analyze the possibility that the future linear colliders could discriminate
between these different approaches.Comment: 14 pages, 2 figures. Version to be published in Journal of Physics G:
Nuclear and Particle Physic
Geometric Scaling in Inclusive Charm Production
We show that the cross section for inclusive charm production exhibits
geometric scaling in a large range of photon virtualities. In the HERA
kinematic domain the saturation momentum stays below the hard
scale , implying charm production probing mostly the color
transparency regime and unitarization effects being almost negligible. We
derive our results considering two saturation models which are able to describe
the DESY ep collider HERA data for the proton structure function at small
values of the Bjorken variable . A striking feature is the scaling on
above saturation limit, corroborating recent
theoretical studies.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures. Version to be published in Physical Review
Letter
Non-forward NLO BFKL Kernel
Details of the calculation of the non-forward BFKL kernel at next-to-leading
order (NLO) are offered. Specifically we show the calculation of the two-gluon
production contribution. This contribution was the last missing part of the
kernel. Together with the NLO gluon Regge trajectory, the NLO contribution of
one-gluon production and the contribution of quark-antiquark production which
were found before it defines the kernel completely for any colour state in the
-channel, in particular the Pomeron kernel presented recently.Comment: 31 page
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