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The Photon Structure Function at Small-x
It is shown that recent small-x measurements of the photon structure function
F_2^{\gamma}(x,Q^2) by the LEP-OPAL collaboration are consistent with
parameter-free QCD predictions at all presently accessible values of Q^2.Comment: 7 pages, LaTeX, 2 figure
Phenomenology of the Flavor-Asymmetry in the Light-Quark Sea of the Nucleon
A phenomenological ansatz for the flavor-asymmetry of the light sea
distributions of the nucleon, based on the Pauli exclusion principle, is
proposed. This ansatz is compatible with the measured flavor-asymmetry of the
unpolarized sea distributions, , of the nucleon. A prediction
for the corresponding polarized flavor-asymmetry is presented and shown to
agree with predictions of (chiral quark--soliton) models which successfully
reproduced the flavor-asymmetry of the unpolarized sea.Comment: 5 pages, LaTeX, 2 figures, uses epsfi
Hard diffraction and the nature of the Pomeron
We ask the question whether the quark and gluon distributions in the Pomeron
obtained from QCD fits to hard diffraction processes at HERA can be dynamically
generated from a state made of ``valence-like'' gluons and sea quarks as input.
By a method combining backward Q^2-evolution for data exploration and forward
Q^2-evolution for a best fit determination, we find that the diffractive
structure functions published by the H1 collaboration at HERA can be described
by a simple ``valence-like'' input at an initial scale of order mu^2 ~ 2.3-2.7
GeV^2. The parton number sum rules at the initial scale mu^2 for the H1 fit
gives 2.1\pm .1\pm .1 and .13\pm .01 \pm .02 for gluon and sea quarks
respectively, corresponding to an initial Pomeron state made of (almost) only
two gluons. It has flat gluon density leading to a plausible interpretation in
terms of a gluonium state.Comment: 14 pages, 9 figure
Heavy Quark Initiated Contributions to Deep Inelastic Structure Functions
We present O(alpha_s^1) corrections to deep inelastic scattering amplitudes
on massive quarks obtained within the scheme of Aivazis, Collins, Olness and
Tung (ACOT). After identifying the correct subtraction term the convergence of
these contributions towards the analogous coefficient functions for massless
quarks, obtained within the modified minimal subtraction scheme (MSbar), is
demonstrated. Furthermore, the quantitative relevance of the contributions to
neutral current (NC) and charged current (CC) structure functions is
investigated for several choices of the factorization scale.Comment: 29 pages, 6 figures; uses epsfig.sty, amssymb.sty, axodraw.sty; minor
changes for publication in Phys. Rev.
Has the QCD RG-Improved Parton Content of Virtual Photons been Observed?
It is demonstrated that present and DIS ep data on the structure of
the virtual photon can be understood entirely in terms of the standard `naive'
quark--parton model box approach. Thus the QCD renormalization group (RG)
improved parton distributions of virtual photons, in particular their gluonic
component, have not yet been observed. The appropriate kinematical regions for
their future observation are pointed out as well as suitable measurements which
may demonstrate their relevance.Comment: 24 pages, LaTeX, 5 figure
Damped Bloch oscillations of cold atoms in optical lattices
The paper studies Bloch oscillations of cold neutral atoms in the optical
lattice. The effect of spontaneous emission on the dynamics of the system is
analyzed both analytically and numerically. The spontaneous emission is shown
to cause (i) the decay of Bloch oscillations with the decrement given by the
rate of spontaneous emission and (ii) the diffusive spreading of the atoms with
a diffusion coefficient depending on {\em both} the rate of spontaneous
emission and the Bloch frequency.Comment: 10 pages, 8 figure
Precise nondivergent analytic formulas for the radiative corrections to the beta energy spectrum in hyperon semileptonic decays over the entire Dalitz plot
Very accurate analytical expressions for the radiative corrections of
unpolarized hyperons semileptonic decays of charged and neutral baryons have
been obtained in the recent past. Some of these formulas contain logarithmic
singularities at the edges of the Dalitz plot for the three- and four-body
decays. These singularities are analyzed and integrated analytically to obtain
new divergentless formulas for the energy spectrum of the produced beta
particle. The new equations contain terms of the order alpha times the momentum
transfer, are applicable to any beta decay process and are suitable for a
model-independent experimental analysis.Comment: 22 pages, 4 figure
Dynamical parton distributions of the nucleon and very small-x physics
Utilizing recent DIS measurements (F_{2,L}) and data on dilepton and
high-E_{T} jet production we determine the dynamical parton distributions of
the nucleon generated radiatively from valence-like positive input
distributions at optimally chosen low resolution scales. These are compared
with `standard' distributions generated from positive input distributions at
some fixed and higher resolution scale. It is shown that up to the next to
leading order NLO(\bar{MS}, DIS) of perturbative QCD considered in this paper,
the uncertainties of the dynamical distributions are, as expected, smaller than
those of their standard counterparts. This holds true in particular in the
presently unexplored extremely small-x region relevant for evaluating ultrahigh
energy cross sections in astrophysical applications. It is noted that our new
dynamical distributions are compatible, within the presently determined
uncertainties, with previously determined dynamical parton distributions.Comment: 21 pages, 2 tables, 16 figures, v2: added Ref.[60], replaced Fig.
Calculating resonance positions and widths using the Siegert approximation method
Here we present complex resonance states (or Siegert states), that describe
the tunneling decay of a trapped quantum particle, from an intuitive point of
view which naturally leads to the easily applicable Siegert approximation
method that can be used for analytical and numerical calculations of complex
resonances of both the linear and nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation. Our
approach thus complements other treatments of the subject that mostly focus on
methods based on continuation in the complex plane or on semiclassical
approximations.Comment: 15 pages, 1 figure, contains MATLAB source code; new version with
additional illustration
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