55 research outputs found
Heavy Quark Effects in the Virtual Photon Structure Functions
We investigate the heavy quark mass effects in the virtual photon structure
functions and in
the framework of the mass-independent renormalization group equation (RGE). We
study a formalism in which the heavy quark mass effects are treated based on
parton picture as well as on the operator product expansion (OPE), and perform
the numerical evaluation of to the
next-leading order (NLO) in QCD.Comment: 19 pages, LaTeX, 4 eps figures, PTPTe
Heavy quark effects on parton distribution functions in the unpolarized virtual photon up to the next-to-leading order in QCD
We investigate the heavy quark mass effects on the parton distribution
functions in the unpolarized virtual photon up to the next-to-leading order in
QCD. Our formalism is based on the QCD-improved parton model described by the
DGLAP evolution equation as well as on the operator product expansion
supplemented by the mass-independent renormalization group method. We evaluate
the various components of the parton distributions inside the virtual photon
with the massive quark effects, which are included through the initial
condition for the heavy quark distributions, or equivalently from the matrix
element of the heavy quark operators. We discuss some features of our results
for the heavy quark effects and their factorization-scheme dependence.Comment: 16 pages, 16 figures, version to appear in Phys. Rev.
Photoreactions of retinochrome at very low temperatures
AbstractRetinochrome is one of the retinal proteins found in the retina of cephalopods. It catalyses the light isomerization of retinal from the all-trans to the 11-cis form. On cooling to 25 K, the absorption peak of retinochrome (λmax 490 nm) was broadened with a shoulder, showing the spectrum steepened on the long wavelength side. On irradiation with yellow-green light (550 nm), retinochrome produced an intermediate with λmax at a shorter wavelength, around 465 nm, and a lower extinction coefficient than lumiretinochrome. It changed to lunuretinochrome (λmax 475 nm) in the dark on warming to liquid nitrogen temperature. We shall call this new intermediate prelunuretinochrome
Target Mass Corrections for the Virtual Photon Structure Functions to the Next-to-next-to-leading Order in QCD
We investigate target mass effects in the unpolarized virtual photon
structure functions and in
perturbative QCD for the kinematical region , where
is the mass squared of the probe (target) photon and is
the QCD scale parameter. We obtain the Nachtmann moments for the structure
functions and then, by inverting the moments, we get the expressions in closed
form for up to the next-to-next-to-leading order and
for up to the next-to-leading order, both of which
include the target mass corrections. Numerical analysis exhibits that target
mass effects appear at large and become sizable near , the maximal value of , as the ratio
increases.Comment: 24 pages, LaTeX, 7 eps figures, REVTeX
Intracranial extension of adenoid cystic carcinoma: potential involvement of EphA2 expression and epithelial-mesenchymal transition in tumor metastasis: a case report
BACKGROUND: Adenoid cystic carcinoma is a malignant epithelial tumor derived from salivary glands and tends to invade the surrounding structures including nervous system. We present a case of adenoid cystic carcinoma with intracranial extension and propose a novel molecular mechanism of adenoid cystic carcinoma metastasis. CASE PRESENTATION: A 29-year-old Japanese male presented with left trigeminal nerve disturbance. Neuroimaging revealed a tumor located at the right middle cranial and infratemporal fossa. The tumor was removed via a subtemporal extradural and infratemporal fossa approach and histologically diagnosed as adenoid cystic carcinoma. Radiological and operative findings confirmed a perineural spread of the tumor along the mandibular nerve. Immunohistochemical analyses of molecular consequences in this case were performed for better understanding of the biological processes associated with adenoid cystic carcinoma metastasis. First, the neoplastic cells were not immunoreactive for E-cadherin, an epithelial marker, but for vimentin, a mesenchymal marker, suggesting changes in cell phenotype from epithelial to mesenchymal states. Correspondingly, immunoreactivity of transcriptional factors, such as Slug, Twist, matrix metalloproteinase-2 and -9, which are involved in epithelial–mesenchymal transition, were observed. Second, elevated expression of EphA2 receptor, not ephrin-A1, was notable in the neoplastic cells, suggesting morphological changes reminiscent of epithelial–mesenchymal transition and ligand-independent promotion of tumor cell migration and invasion. CONCLUSIONS: We report a case of adenoid cystic carcinoma with perineural spread and provide the first published evidence that EphA2 expression without ephrin-A1 and epithelial–mesenchymal transition might play important roles in adenoid cystic carcinoma progression
Transition from real to virtual polarized photon structures
We investigate the transition of the polarized photon structure function
when the target photon shifts from on-shell ()
to far off-shell () region. The analysis is performed to the
next-to-leading order in QCD. The first moment of which vanishes
for the real photon, turns to be a negative value when target photon becomes
off-shell. The explicit -dependence of the first moment sum rule as well
as of the structure function as a function of is
studied in the framework of the vector meson dominance model.Comment: 16 pages, 4 eps figure
The corrections to the first moment of the polarized virtual photon structure function
We present the next-to-next-to-leading order () corrections
to the first moment of the polarized virtual photon structure function
in the kinematical region ,
where is the mass squared of the probe (target) photon and
is the QCD scale parameter. In order to evaluate the three-loop-level
photon matrix element of the flavor singlet axial current, we resort to the
Adler-Bardeen theorem for the axial anomaly and we calculate in effect the
two-loop diagrams for the photon matrix element of the gluon operator. The
corrections are found to be about 3% of the sum of the
leading order () andthe next-to-leading order ()
contributions, when and , and the
number of active quark flavors is three to five.Comment: 21 page
Parton distributions in the virtual photon target up to NNLO in QCD
Parton distributions in the virtual photon target are investigated in
perturbative QCD up to the next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO). In the case
, where () is the mass squared of the
probe (target) photon, parton distributions can be predicted completely up to
the NNLO, but they are factorisation-scheme-dependent. We analyse parton
distributions in two different factorisation schemes, namely and
schemes, and discuss their scheme dependence. We show that
the factorisation-scheme dependence is characterised by the large-
behaviours of quark distributions. Gluon distribution is predicted to be very
small in absolute value except in the small- region.Comment: 28 pages, 5 figures, version to appear in Eur. Phys. J.
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