10 research outputs found
Masses of the physical mesons from an effective QCD--Hamiltonian
The front form Hamiltonian for quantum chromodynamics, reduced to an
effective Hamiltonian acting only in the space, is solved
approximately. After coordinate transformation to usual momentum space and
Fourier transformation to configuration space a second order differential
equation is derived. This retarded Schr\"odinger equation is solved by
variational methods and semi-analytical expressions for the masses of all 30
pseudoscalar and vector mesons are derived. In view of the direct relation to
quantum chromdynamics without free parameter, the agreement with experiment is
remarkable, but the approximation scheme is not adequate for the mesons with
one up or down quark. The crucial point is the use of a running coupling
constant , in a manner similar but not equal to the one of
Richardson in the equal usual-time quantization. Its value is fixed at the Z
mass and the 5 flavor quark masses are determined by a fit to the vector meson
quarkonia.Comment: 18 pages, 4 Postscript figure
A Poincare-Covariant Parton Cascade Model for Ultrarelativistic Heavy-Ion Reactions
We present a new cascade-type microscopic simulation of nucleus-nucleus
collisions at RHIC energies. The basic elements are partons (quarks and gluons)
moving in 8N-dimensional phase space according to Poincare-covariant dynamics.
The parton-parton scattering cross sections used in the model are computed
within perturbative QCD in the tree-level approximation. The Q^2 dependence of
the structure functions is included by an implementation of the DGLAP mechanism
suitable for a cascade, so that the number of partons is not static, but varies
in space and time as the collision of two nuclei evolves. The resulting parton
distributions are presented, and meaningful comparisons with experimental data
are discussed.Comment: 30 pages. 11 figures. Submitted to Phys.Rev.
Photon Emission from a Parton Gas at Chemical Non-Equilibrium
We compute the hard photon production rate of a chemically non-equilibrated
quark-gluon plasma. We assume that the plasma is already thermally
equilibrated, i.~e. describable by a temperature, but with a phase-space
distribution that deviates from the Fermi/Bose distribution by a time dependent
factor (fugacity). The photon spectrum is obtained by integrating the photon
rate over the space-time evolution of the quark-gluon plasma. Some consequences
for ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions are discussed.Comment: 17 pages, uuencoded Postscript file, figures include
Next-to-leading order QCD corrections to inclusive-hadron photoproduction in polarized lepton-proton collisions
We calculate the next-to-leading order QCD corrections to the `direct' part
of the spin-dependent cross section for single-inclusive charged-hadron
photoproduction. This process could be studied experimentally in future
polarized fixed-target lepton-nucleon experiments, but also at the HERA ep
collider after an upgrade to both beams being polarized. We present a brief
numerical evaluation of our results by studying the K-factors and the scale
dependence of the NLO cross section.Comment: 25 Pages, LaTeX, 4 figures as eps file