265 research outputs found
Hard exclusive wide-angle processes
In this talk the handbag approach to hard exclusive wide-angle processes is
reviewed and applications, as for instance two-photon annihilations into pairs
of mesons, are discussed.Comment: 11 pages, 8 figures, using latex2e, invited talk presented at Meson
2012, Cracow 201
Experimental Studies of Few-nucleon Systems at Intermediate Energies
Systems composed of 3 nucleons are a subject of precise experimental studies for many years. At the first stage the investigations were mainly focused on elastic nucleon-deuteron scattering, slowly extending to systematic measurements of the deuteron breakup reaction. Intermediate energies, below the threshold for pion production, deserve special attention: it is the region where comparison with exact theoretical calculations is possible, while the sensitivity to various aspects of interaction, like subtle effects of the dynamics beyond the pairwise nucleon-nucleon force, is significant. Moreover, the Coulomb interaction and relativistic effects show their influence in the observables of the breakup reaction. All these effects vary with energy and appear with different strength in certain observables and phase space regions, what calls for systematic investigations of a possibly rich set of observables determined in a wide range of energies. The next step in complication of the system are studies of reactions involving 4 nucleons—more sensitive, as expected, to subtle dynamics beyond the pairwise interaction. A brief survey of recent and planned experiments in the 3- and 4-nucleon systems is given
Precision studies of few-nucleon system dynamics
Modern nucleon-nucleon interaction models can be probed quantitatively in the three-nucleon (3N) environment by comparing predictions based on rigorous solutions of the Faddeev equations with the measured observables. Proper description of the experimental data can be achieved only if the models are supplemented with additional dynamical ingredients: subtle traces of suppressed degrees of freedom, effectively introduced by means of genuine three-nucleon forces and effects of the Coulomb force. As an example of precision studies of 3N system dynamics, new generation measurements of the 1H(d→,pp) n breakup reaction at 130 MeV are considered. Large sets of high accuracy, exclusive cross-section and analyzing power data acquired in these projects contribute significantly to constrain the physical assumptions underlying the theoretical interaction models. Comparisons of the cross-section data with the predictions using nuclear interactions generated in various ways, allowed to establish importance of including both, the 3N and the Coulomb forces to strongly improve description of the whole data set. Discrepancies observed in reproducing the analyzing power data hint at still persisting incompleteness of modeling the 3N system interaction dynamics
Exclusive meson pair production in proton-proton collisions
We present a study of the exclusive production of meson pairs in the
four-body , reactions at high
energies which constitute an irreducible background to resonance states (e.g.
, , , , ). We consider
central diffractive contribution mediated by Pomeron and Reggeon exchanges and
new diffractive mechanism of emission of pions/kaons from the proton lines. We
include absorption effects due to proton-proton interaction and pion/kaon
rescattering. Predictions for the total cross section and differential
distributions in pion/kaon rapidity and transverse momentum as well as
two-pion/kaon invariant mass are presented for the RHIC, Tevatron and LHC
colliders. Finally we consider a measurement of exclusive production of a
scalar meson via ,
decay.Comment: 4 pp., 4 figures, talk presented by PL at MESON2012 - 12th
International Workshop on Meson Production, Properties and Interaction,
Krakow, Poland, 31 May - 5 June 201
Exclusive production of and pairs in photon-photon and in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions
The reactions are discussed. To describe those
processes, we include dipion continuum, resonances, high-energy pion-pion
rescatterings, meson exchange and pQCD Brodsky-Lepage mechanisms. The
cross section for the production of pion pairs in photon-photon collisions in
peripheral heavy ion collisions is calculated with the help of Equivalent
Photon Approximaption (EPA) in the impact parameter space. We show predictions
at TeV which could be measured e.g. by the ALICE
collaboration at the LHC.Comment: 4 pages, 7 figures, 1 table, talk by M. Klusek-Gawenda at MESON2012,
31 May - 5 June 2012, Krakow, Polan
A Dispersive Treatment of Decays
are for several reasons an especially interesting decay channel
of mesons: decays allow an accurate measurement of a
combination of -wave scattering lengths, one form factor of the
decay is connected to the chiral anomaly and the decay is the best source for
the determination of some low energy constants of ChPT. We present a dispersive
approach to decays, which takes rescattering effects fully into
account. Some fits to NA48/2 and E865 measurements and results of the matching
to ChPT are shown.Comment: 4 pages, talk given by PS at MESON2012 - 12th International Workshop
on Meson Production, Properties and Interaction, Krak\'ow, Poland, 31 May - 5
June 201
Open charm meson production at LHC
We discuss charm production at the LHC. The production of single
pairs is calculated in the -factorization approach. We use
Kimber-Martin-Ryskin unintegrated gluon distributions in the proton. The
hadronization is included with the help of Peterson fragmentation functions.
Transverse momentum and pseudorapidity distributions of charmed mesons are
presented and compared to recent results of the ALICE, LHCb and ATLAS
collaborations. Furthermore we discuss production of two pairs of
within a simple formalism of double-parton scattering (DPS). Surprisingly large
cross sections, comparable to single-parton scattering (SPS), are predicted for
LHC energies. We discuss perspectives how to identify the double scattering
contribution. We predict much larger cross section for large rapidity distance
between charm quarks from different hard parton scatterings compared to single
scattering.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures, talk given by R. Maciula at the MESON2012 - 12th
International Workshop on Meson Production, Properties and Interaction, 31
May - 5 June 2012, Krakow, Polan
Strangeness production in antiproton-nucleus annihilation
The results of the microscopic transport calculations of -nucleus
interactions within a GiBUU model are presented. The dominating mechanism of
hyperon production is the strangeness exchange processes
and . The calculated rapidity spectra of hyperons are
significantly shifted to forward rapidities with respect to the spectra of
hyperons. We argue that this shift should be a sensitive test for the
possible exotic mechanisms of -nucleus annihilation. The production of
the double -hypernuclei by interaction with a secondary target
is calculated.Comment: Proceedings of the 12th Int. Workshop on Meson Production, Properties
and Interaction (MESON-2012), Cracow, 31.05-05.06.201
Experimental studies of nuclear interactions in few-nucleon systems
This article belongs to the Topical Collection "The 23rd European Conference on Few-Body Problems in Physics". This work was partially supported by Polish National Science Center from Grant DEC-2012/05/B/ST2/02556 and by the European Commission within the Seventh Framework Programme through IA-ENSAR (contract no. RII3-CT-2010-262010).Systems of three nucleons (3N) can be treated as a testing ground for modern approaches to describe nuclear interactions. At intermediate energies, observables for 3N systems are sensitive to subtle effects of the dynamics beyond the pairwise nucleon–nucleon force, so-called 3N-force (3NF). For years the search for 3NF has been motivating precise measurements of observables of elastic nucleon–deuteron scattering and for the deuteron breakup reaction. Breakup of a deuteron in collision with a proton leads to the final state of three free nucleons, with variety of possible kinematic configurations, revealing locally enhanced sensitivity to particular aspects of the interaction dynamics, like 3NF, Coulomb force between protons, or relativistic effects. This feature makes the breakup reaction a very versatile tool for validation of the theoretical description. Reactions involving four nucleons pose immense challenges with regard to exact theoretical calculations for such systems. Nonetheless, they attract attention due to expected enhanced sensitivity to certain aspects of the nuclear dynamics, manifesting themselves in various channels and configurations. The most important results of recent experimental studies of 3N and 4N systems at intermediate energies are discussed. A brief survey of the ongoing projects is given.NCN, European Commission within the Seventh Framework Programme through IA-ENSA
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