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High- Jets in Diffractive Electroproduction
The diffractive production of high- jets in deep-inelastic
scattering is studied in the semiclassical approach. The -spectra of
and diffractive final states are found to be
qualitatively different. For final states, which are produced by
`hard' colour-singlet exchange, the -spectrum is much softer than
for final states, where the colour neutralization is `soft'.
Furthermore, the two different final states can be clearly distinguished by
their diffractive mass distributions.Comment: 9 pages, latex, 5 figure
Combined analysis of diffractive and inclusive structure functions in the semiclassical framework
Small-x DIS is described as the scattering of a partonic fluctuation of the
photon off a superposition of target color fields. Diffraction occurs if the
emerging partonic state is in a color singlet. Introducing a specific model for
the averaging over all relevant color field configurations, both diffractive
and inclusive parton distributions at some low scale Q_0^2 can be calculated. A
conventional DGLAP analysis results in a good description of diffractive and
inclusive structure functions at higher values of Q^2.Comment: 3 pages LaTeX, 3 figures, talk presented at the 7th International
Workshop on Deep Inelastic Scattering and QCD (DIS99), Zeuthen, Germany,
April 19-23, 199
Leptogenesis for Pedestrians
During the process of thermal leptogenesis temperature decreases by about one
order of magnitude while the baryon asymmetry is generated. We present an
analytical description of this process so that the dependence on the neutrino
mass parameters becomes transparent. In the case of maximal CP asymmetry all
decay and scattering rates in the plasma are determined by the mass M_1 of the
decaying heavy Majorana neutrino, the effective light neutrino mass tilde{m}_1
and the absolute mass scale bar{m} of the light neutrinos. In the mass range
suggested by neutrino oscillations, m_{sol} \simeq 8*10^{-3} eV \lesssim
\tilde{m}_1 \lesssim m_{atm} \simeq 5*10^{-2} eV, leptogenesis is dominated
just by decays and inverse decays. The effect of all other scattering processes
lies within the theoretical uncertainty of present calculations. The final
baryon asymmetry is dominantly produced at a temperature T_B which can be about
one order of magnitude below the heavy neutrino mass M_1. We also derive an
analytical expression for the upper bound on the light neutrino masses implied
by successful leptogenesis.Comment: 55 pages, 14 figures include
Towards the Theory of Diffractive DIS
The large rapidity gap events, observed at HERA, have changed considerably
our physical picture of deep inelastic scattering during the past years. We
review the present theoretical understanding of diffractive DIS with emphasis
on the close relation to inclusive DIS. This includes success and limitations
of the leading twist description, the connection between diffractive and
inclusive parton distributions in the semiclassical approach, the colour
structure of the proton and comparison with data. The progress report concludes
with a list of open questions.Comment: 19 pages, 8 figures; presented at `New Trends in HERA Physics',
Ringberg Workshop, June 199
Quantum mechanics of baryogenesis
The cosmological baryon asymmetry can be explained as remnant of heavy
Majorana neutrino decays in the early universe. We study this
out-of-equilibrium process by means of Kadanoff-Baym equations which are solved
in a perturbative expansion. To leading order the problem is reduced to solving
a set of Boltzmann equations for distribution functions.Comment: 12 pages, 2 figures, typos corrected. To be published in Physics
Letter
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