52 research outputs found
Radiative Corrections to High Energy Lepton Bremsstrahlung on Heavy Nuclei
One-loop radiative corrections to the leptonic tensor in high energy
bremsstrahlung on heavy nuclei are calculated. Virtual and real photon
radiation is taken into account. Double bremsstrahlung is simulated by means of
Monte Carlo. Numerical results are presented for the case of muon
bremsstrahlung in conditions of the COMPASS experiment at CERN.Comment: 7 pages, 1 figur
Observation of the beam-size effect at HERA
A precise measurement of the spectrum of the photons from bremsstrahlung
with the ZEUS luminosity monitor at HERA is reported. The measurement shows a
reduced rate compared to the Bethe-Heitler spectrum for photon energies below
5~GeV. This suppression, called the beam-size effect, is explained by the
finite transverse size of the beam overlap relative to the typical impact
parameter in the process of bremsstrahlung at HERA energies.Comment: 12 pages, late
Beam-size effect and particle losses at Super factory (Italy)
In the colliders, the macroscopically large impact parameters give a
substantial contribution to the standard cross section of the process. These impact parameters may be much larger than the
transverse sizes of the colliding bunches. It means that the standard cross
section of this process has to be substantially modified. In the present paper
such a beam-size effect is calculated for bremsstrahlung at Super factory
developed in Italy. We find out that this effect reduces beam losses due to
bremsstrahlung by about 40%.Comment: 11 pages, 4 figure
Production of Low Mass Electron Pairs Due to the Photon-Photon Mechanism in Central Collisions
We calculate the probability for dilepton production in central relativistic
heavy ion collisions due to the gamma-gamma mechanism. This is a potential
background to more interesting mechanisms. We find that this mechanism is
negligible in the CERES experiments. Generally, the contribution due to this
mechanism is small in the central region, while it can be large for small
invariant masses and forward or backward rapidities. A simple formula based on
the equivalent photon approximation and applications to a possible scenario at
RHIC are also given.Comment: 10 pages REVTeX, 5 Figures, for related work see
http://quasar.physik.unibas.ch/~hencken
Effective Field Theory and Matching in Non-Relativistic Gauge Theories
The effective Lagrangian and power counting rules for non-relativistic gauge
theories are derived via an expansion in . It is shown that the
expansion leads to an effective field theory which incorporates a multipole
expansion. Failure to use this expansion in the low energy theory leads to a
loss of predictive power as the matching procedure becomes intractable. It is
emphasized that there is not a one-to-one correspondence between operators in
the modified low energy theory and those in the heavy quark effective theory.We
also discuss the Lamb shift as a pedagogical example of the power counting
scheme.Comment: 11 pages LATEX. Version to appear in PRD. Paragraph regarding
non-local four quark operators included. Comparison of magnetic moment
operator scaling to other schemes removed. Discussion of the non-multipole
expanded theory modifie
Shapes of the Proton
A model proton wave function, constructed using Poincare invariance, and
constrained by recent electromagnetic form factor data, is used to study the
shape of the proton. Spin-dependent quark densities are defined as matrix
elements of density operators in proton states of definite spin-polarization,
and shown to have an infinite variety of non-spherical shapes. For high
momentum quarks with spin parallel to that of the proton, the shape resembles
that of a peanut, but for quarks with anti-parallel spin the shape is that of a
bagel.Comment: 8 pages, 5 figures, to be submitted to Phys. Rev. C This corrects a
few typos and explains some further connections with experiment
Large contribution of virtual Delbrueck scattering to the emission of photons by relativistic nuclei in nucleus-nucleus and electron-nucleus collisions
Delbrueck scattering is an elastic scattering of a photon in the Coulomb
field of a nucleus via a virtual electron loop. The contribution of this
virtual subprocess to the emission of a photon in the collision of
ultra-relativistic nuclei Z_1 Z_2 -> Z_1 Z_2 gamma is considered. We identify
the incoming virtual photon as being generated by one of the relativistic
nuclei involved in the binary collision and the scattered photon as being
emitted in the process. The energy and angular distributions of the photons are
calculated. The discussed process has no infrared divergence. The total cross
section obtained is 14 barn for Au-Au collisions at the RHIC collider and 50
barn for Pb-Pb collisions at the LHC collider. These cross sections are
considerably larger than those for ordinary tree-level nuclear bremsstrahlung
in the considered photon energy range m_e << E_\gamma << m_e gamma, where gamma
is the Lorentz factor of the nucleus. Finally, photon emission in
electron-nucleus collisions e Z -> e Z gamma is discussed in the context of the
eRHIC option.Comment: 10 pages; 7 figure
Matter-induced vertices for photon splitting in a weakly magnetized plasma
We evaluate the three-photon vertex functions at order and in a
weak constant magnetic field at finite temperature and density with on shell
external lines. Their application to the study of the photon splitting process
leads to consider high energy photons whose dispersion relations are not
changed significantly by the plasma effects. The absorption coefficient is
computed and compared with the perturbative vacuum result. For the values of
temperature and density of some astrophysical objects with a weak magnetic
field, the matter effects are negligible.Comment: 14 pages, 1 figure. Accepted for publication in PR
On possibility of measurement of the electron beam energy using absorption of radiation by electrons in a magnetic field
The possibility of the precise measurement of the electron beam energy using
absorption of radiation by electrons in a static and homogeneous magnetic field
in a range up to a few hundred GeV energies, was considered in [1]. With the
purpose of experimental checking of this method in a range of several tens MeV
energies, the possibility of measurement of absolute energy of the electron
beam energy with relative accuracy up to 10^{-4} is examined in details.Comment: 14 pages, 10 figure
Electron-positron pair production in an arbitrary polarized ultrastrong laser field
Electron-positron pair production in an arbitrary polarized ultrastrong laser
field is investigated in the first order perturbation approximation in which
the Volkov states are used for convenient calculation of scattering amplitude
and cross section. It is found surprisingly that the optimal pair production
depends strongly on the polarization. For some cases of field parameters, the
optimal field is elliptically polarized or evenly circularly polarized one,
rather than the usual linear polarization as indicated by previous works. Some
insights into pair generation are given and some interesting unexpected
features are also discussed briefly.Comment: 20 pages, 10 figure
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