516 research outputs found
Photoinduced magnetism in the ferromagnetic semiconductors
We study the enhancement of the magnetic transition temperature due to
incident light in ferromagnetic semiconductors such as EuS. The photoexcited
carriers mediate an extra ferromagnetic interaction due to the coupling with
the localized magnetic moments. The Hamiltonian consists of a Heisenberg model
for the localized moments and an interaction term between the photoexcited
carriers and the localized moments. The model predicts a small enhancement of
the transition temperature in semi-quantitative agreement with the experiments.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figure
Timelike Virtual Compton Scattering from Electron-Positron Radiative Annihilation
We propose measurements of the deeply virtual Compton amplitude (DVCS),
gamma* to H H-bar gamma, in the timelike t = (p_{H} + p_{H-bar})^2 > 0
kinematic domain which is accessible at electron-positron colliders via the
radiative annihilation process e+ e- to H H-bar gamma. These processes allow
the measurement of timelike deeply virtual Compton scattering for a variety of
H H-bar hadron pairs such as pi+ pi-, K+ K-, and D D-bar as well as p p-bar. As
in the conventional spacelike DVCS, there are interfering coherent amplitudes
contributing to the timelike processes involving C= - form factors. The
interference between the amplitudes measures the phase of the C=+ timelike DVCS
amplitude relative to the phase of the timelike form factors and can be
isolated by considering the forward-backward e+ \leftrightarrow e- asymmetry.
The J=0 fixed pole contribution which arises from the local coupling of the two
photons to the quark current plays a special role. As an example we present a
simple model.Comment: 9 pages, 8 figures; v2 has improved kinematic discussio
Longitudinally Polarized Photoproduction of Inclusive Hadrons at Fixed-Target Experiments
We present a detailed phenomenological study of spin-dependent
single-inclusive high-p_T hadron photoproduction with particular emphasis on
the kinematics relevant for the Compass and Hermes fixed-target experiments. We
carefully examine the theoretical uncertainties associated with the only
moderate transverse momenta accessible in such measurements and analyze the
sensitivity of the relevant spin asymmetries to the gluon polarization in the
nucleon as well as to the completely unknown parton content of circularly
polarized photons.Comment: 12 pages, 14 figures; final version to appear in EPJC; comparison to
E155 data and references adde
Transverse target spin asymmetry in inclusive DIS with two-photon exchange
We study the transverse target spin dependence of the cross section for
inclusive electron-nucleon scattering with unpolarized beam. Such dependence is
absent in the one-photon exchange approximation (Christ-Lee theorem) and arises
only in higher orders of the QED expansion, from the interference of one-photon
and absorptive two-photon exchange amplitudes as well as from real photon
emission (bremsstrahlung). We demonstrate that the transverse spin-dependent
two-photon exchange cross section is free of QED infrared and collinear
divergences. We argue that in DIS kinematics the transverse spin dependence
should be governed by a "parton-like" mechanism in which the two-photon
exchange couples mainly to a single quark. We calculate the normal spin
asymmetry in an approximation where the dominant contribution arises from quark
helicity flip due to interactions with non-perturbative vacuum fields
(constituent quark picture) and is proportional to the quark transversity
distribution in the nucleon. Such helicity-flip processes are not significantly
Sudakov-suppressed if the infrared scale for gluon emission in the photon-quark
subprocess is of the order of the chiral symmetry breaking scale, mu_chiral^2
>> Lambda_QCD^2. We estimate the asymmetry in the kinematics of the planned
Jefferson Lab Hall A experiment to be of the order 10^{-4}, with different sign
for proton and neutron. We also comment on the spin dependence in the limit of
soft high-energy scattering.Comment: 22 pages, 14 figures; uses revtex
Partonic calculation of the two-photon exchange contribution to elastic electron-proton scattering at large momentum transfer
We estimate the two-photon exchange contribution to elastic electron-proton
scattering at large momentum transfer through the scattering off a parton in
the proton. We relate the process on the nucleon to the generalized parton
distributions which also enter in other wide angle scattering processes. We
find that when taking the polarization transfer determinations of the form
factors as input, adding in the 2 photon correction, does reproduce the
Rosenbluth data.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
QED Radiative Corrections in Processes of Exclusive Pion Electroproduction
Formalism for radiative correction (RC) calculation in exclusive pion
electroproduction on the proton is presented. A FORTRAN code EXCLURAD is
developed for the RC procedure. The numerical analysis is done in the
kinematics of current Jefferson Lab experiments.Comment: 13 pages, 9 figures; requires RevTeX
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