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World data of J/psi production consolidate NRQCD factorization at NLO
We calculate the cross sections of inclusive J/psi production in
photoproduction and two-photon scattering, involving both direct and resolved
photons, and in e^+e^- annihilation at next-to-leading order (NLO) within the
factorization formalism of nonrelativistic quantum chromodynamics (NRQCD),
including the full relativistic corrections due to the intermediate
^1S_0^{[8]}, ^3S_1^{[8]}, and ^3P_J^{[8]} color-octet (CO) states. Exploiting
also our previous results on hadroproduction, we perform a combined fit of the
respective CO long-distance matrix elements (LDMEs) to all available
high-quality data of inclusive J/psi production, from KEKB, LEP~II, RHIC, HERA,
the Tevatron, and the LHC, comprising a total of 194 data points from 26 data
sets.Comment: 8 pages; 28 figure
Reconciling J/psi production at HERA, RHIC, Tevatron, and LHC with NRQCD factorization at next-to-leading order
We calculate the cross section of inclusive direct J/psi hadroproduction at
next-to-leading order (NLO) within the factorization formalism of
nonrelativistic quantum chromodynamics (NRQCD), including the full relativistic
corrections due to the intermediate 1S_0^[8], 3S_1^[8], and 3P_J^[8]
color-octet states. We perform a combined fit of the color-octet (CO)
long-distance matrix elements to the transverse-momentum (p_T) distributions
measured by CDF at the Fermilab Tevatron and H1 at DESY HERA and demonstrate
that they also successfully describe the p_T distributions from PHENIX at BNL
RHIC and CMS at the CERN LHC as well as the photon-proton c.m. energy and (with
worse agreement) the inelasticity distributions from H1. This provides a first
rigorous test of NRQCD factorization at NLO. In all experiments, the CO
processes are shown to be indispensable.Comment: 5 pages, 10 figures; manuscript matches the one being printed in
Phys. Rev. Let
Probing nonrelativistic QCD factorization in polarized J/psi photoproduction at next-to-leading order
We analyze the polarization observables of J/psi photoproduction at
next-to-leading order (NLO) within the factorization formalism of
nonrelativistic quantum chromodynamics (NRQCD). This is the first NLO study of
heavy-quarkonium polarization including the full relativistic corrections due
to the intermediate ^1S_0^{[8]}, ^3S_1^{[8]}, and ^3P_J^{[8]} color-octet (CO)
states in the worldwide endeavor to test NRQCD factorization at the quantum
level. We present theoretical predictions in the helicity, target, and
Collins-Soper frames of DESY HERA, evaluated using the CO long-distance matrix
elements previously extracted through a global fit to experimental data of
unpolarized J/psi production, and confront them with recent measurements by the
H1 and ZEUS Collaborations. We find the overall agreement to be satisfactory,
but the case for NRQCD to be not as strong as for the J/psi yield.Comment: 8 pages, 6 figures; minor changes to the text, 2 references added;
accepted for publication in Physical Review Letter
On the relative strengths of fragments of collection
Let be the basic set theory that consists of the axioms of
extensionality, emptyset, pair, union, powerset, infinity, transitive
containment, -separation and set foundation. This paper studies the
relative strength of set theories obtained by adding fragments of the
set-theoretic collection scheme to . We focus on two common
parameterisations of collection: -collection, which is the usual
collection scheme restricted to -formulae, and strong
-collection, which is equivalent to -collection plus
-separation. The main result of this paper shows that for all ,
(1) proves the consistency of Zermelo Set Theory plus
-collection,
(2) the theory is
-conservative over the theory .
It is also shown that (2) holds for when the Axiom of Choice is
included in the base theory. The final section indicates how the proofs of (1)
and (2) can be modified to obtain analogues of these results for theories
obtained by adding fragments of collection to a base theory (Kripke-Platek Set
Theory with Infinity and ) that does not include the powerset axiom.Comment: 22 page
Neighborhood Diversity and the Appreciation of Native- and Immigrant-Owned Homes
This paper examines the effect of neighborhood diversity on the nativity gap in home-value appreciation in Australia. Specifically, immigrant homeowners experienced a 41.7 percent increase in median home values between 2001 and 2006, while the median value of housing owned by the native-born increased by 59.4 percent over the same period. We use a semi-parametric decomposition approach to assess the relative importance of the various determinants of home values in producing this gap. We find that the differential returns to housing wealth are not related to changes in the nature of the houses or the neighborhoods in which immigrants and native-born homeowners live. Rather, the gap stems from the fact that over time there were differential changes across groups in the hedonic prices (i.e., returns) associated with the underlying determinants of home values.international migration, home-ownership, decomposition analysis
Computation of free energy profiles with parallel adaptive dynamics
We propose a formulation of adaptive computation of free energy differences,
in the ABF or nonequilibrium metadynamics spirit, using conditional
distributions of samples of configurations which evolve in time. This allows to
present a truly unifying framework for these methods, and to prove convergence
results for certain classes of algorithms. From a numerical viewpoint, a
parallel implementation of these methods is very natural, the replicas
interacting through the reconstructed free energy. We show how to improve this
parallel implementation by resorting to some selection mechanism on the
replicas. This is illustrated by computations on a model system of
conformational changes.Comment: 4 pages, 1 Figur
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