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The running of the electromagnetic coupling alpha in small-angle Bhabha scattering
A method to determine the running of alpha from a measurement of small-angle
Bhabha scattering is proposed and worked out. The method is suited to high
statistics experiments at e+e- colliders, which are equipped with luminometers
in the appropriate angular region. A new simulation code predicting small-angle
Bhabha scattering is also presentedComment: 15 pages, 3 Postscript figure
Parton distribution functions from the precise NNLO QCD fit
We report the parton distribution functions (PDFs) determined from the NNLO
QCD analysis of the world inclusive DIS data with account of the precise NNLO
QCD corrections to the evolution equations kernel. The value of strong coupling
constant \alpha_s^{NNLO}(M_Z)=0.1141(14), in fair agreement with one obtained
using the earlier approximate NNLO kernel by van Neerven-Vogt. The intermediate
bosons rates calculated in the NNLO using obtained PDFs are in agreement to the
latest Run II results.Comment: 8 pages, LATEX, 2 figures (EPS
Monte-Carlo Generator Photon Jets for the process e+e- -> gamma gamma
Monte-Carlo generator with photon jets radiation in collinear regions for the
process \eegg is described in detail. Radiative corrections in the first order
of are treated exactly. Large leading logarithmic corrections coming
from collinear regions are taken into account in all orders of by
applying the Structure Function approach. Theoretical precision of the cross
section with radiative corrections is estimated to be 0.2%. This process is
considered as an additional tool to measure luminosity in forthcoming
experiments with the CMD-3 detector at the collider VEPP-2000.Comment: 6 pages, 5 figure
Branching ratios of the decays of psi(3770) and Upsilon(10580) into light hadrons
Taking into account the new data on the full width of D^{\ast\pm}(2010) and
the mass difference of the charged and neutral beauty mesons B^\pm, B^0,\bar
B^0, the branching ratios of the decays psi(3770), Upsilon(10580) to pi^+pi^-,
K bar K, rho(omega)pi, rho(omega)eta, rho(omega)eta^prime, K^ast bar K+ c.c,
rho^+ rho^-, and K^ast bar K^ast are re-evaluated in the model in which the
Okubo-Zweig-Iizuka rule is violated due to the real intermediate state D\bar D
in case of psi(3770) and B\bar B in case of Upsilon(10580). The inclusive
annihilation of psi(3770) and Upsilon(10580) into light hadrons is discussed.Comment: 10 page
A tracking algorithm for the stable spin polarization field in storage rings using stroboscopic averaging
Polarized protons have never been accelerated to more than about GeV. To
achieve polarized proton beams in RHIC (250GeV), HERA (820GeV), and the
TEVATRON (900GeV), ideas and techniques new to accelerator physics are needed.
In this publication we will stress an important aspect of very high energy
polarized proton beams, namely the fact that the equilibrium polarization
direction can vary substantially across the beam in the interaction region of a
high energy experiment when no countermeasure is taken. Such a divergence of
the polarization direction would not only diminish the average polarization
available to the particle physics experiment, but it would also make the
polarization involved in each collision analyzed in a detector strongly
dependent on the phase space position of the interacting particle. In order to
analyze and compensate this effect, methods for computing the equilibrium
polarization direction are needed. In this paper we introduce the method of
stroboscopic averaging, which computes this direction in a very efficient way.
Since only tracking data is needed, our method can be implemented easily in
existing spin tracking programs. Several examples demonstrate the importance of
the spin divergence and the applicability of stroboscopic averaging.Comment: 39 page
The running mass at low scalefrom the heavy-light meson decay constants
It is shown that a 25(20)% difference between the decay constants
and occurs due to large differences in the pole
masses of the and quarks. The values , recently observed in the CLEO experiment, and
, obtained in unquenched lattice QCD, can be
reached only if the running mass at low scale is GeV) MeV. Our results follow from the analytical expression for the
pseudoscalar decay constant based on the path-integral
representation of the meson Green's function.Comment: 6 pages, no figures; revtex
Hadron Production via e+e- Collisions with Initial State Radiation
A novel method of studying e+e- annihilation into hadrons using initial state
radiation at e+e- colliders is described. After brief history of the method,
its theoretical foundations are considered. Numerous experiments in which
exclusive cross sections of e+e- annihilation into hadrons below the
center-of-mass energy of 5 GeV have been measured are presented. Some
applications of the results obtained to fundamental tests of the Standard Model
are listed.Comment: 50 pages, 88 figures, accepted for publication in Rev. Mod. Phy
New high order relations between physical observables in perturbative QCD
We exploit the fact that within massless perturbative QCD the same Green's
function determines the hadronic contribution to the decay width and the
moments of the cross section. This allows one to obtain relations
between physical observables in the two processes up to an unprecedented high
order of perturbative QCD. A precision measurement of the decay width
allows one then to predict the first few moments of the spectral density in
annihilations integrated up to with high accuracy.
The proposed tests are in reach of present experimental capabilities.Comment: 7 pages, Latex, no figure
Calculation of gluon and four-quark condensates from the operator expansion
The magnitudes of gluon and four-quark condensates are found from the
analysis of vector mesons consisting of light quarks (the families of
and mesons) in the 3 loops approximation. The QCD model with infinite
number of vector mesons is used to describe the function . This model
describes well the experimental function . Polarization operators
calculated with this model coincide with the Wilson operator expansion at large
. The improved perturbative theory, such that the polarization operators
have correct analytical properties, is used. The result is . The electronic widths of and
are calculated.Comment: 18 pages, latex, changed content slightl
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