Single inclusive hadron production in pA collisions at NLO

We study single inclusive forward hadron production in high energy proton-nucleus collisions at next-to-leading order in the Color Glass Condensate framework. Recent studies have shown that the next-to-leading order corrections to this process are large and negative at large transverse momentum, leading to negative cross sections. We propose to overcome this difficulty by introducing an explicit rapidity factorization scale when subtracting the rapidity divergence into the evolution of the target.Comment: 6 pages, 2 figures. Proceedings of DIS 2016, 11-15 April 2016, DESY Hamburg, German

Single inclusive forward hadron production at next-to-leading order

We discuss single inclusive hadron production from a high energy quark scattering off a strong target color field in the Color Glass Condensate formalism. Recent calculations of this process at the next-to-leading order accuracy have led to negative cross sections at large transverse momenta. We identify the origin of this problem as an oversubtraction of the rapidity divergence into the Balitsky-Kovchegov evolution equation for the target. We propose a new way to implement the kinematical restriction on the emitted gluons to overcome this difficulty.Comment: 12 pages, 9 figures. v2: matches published versio

Calculations of turbulent separated flows

A numerical study of incompressible turbulent separated flows is carried out by using two-equation turbulence models of the K-epsilon type. On the basis of realizability analysis, a new formulation of the eddy-viscosity is proposed which ensures the positiveness of turbulent normal stresses - a realizability condition that most existing two-equation turbulence models are unable to satisfy. The present model is applied to calculate two backward-facing step flows. Calculations with the standard K-epsilon model and a recently developed RNG-based K-epsilon model are also made for comparison. The calculations are performed with a finite-volume method. A second-order accurate differencing scheme and sufficiently fine grids are used to ensure the numerical accuracy of solutions. The calculated results are compared with the experimental data for both mean and turbulent quantities. The comparison shows that the present model performs quite well for separated flows

Far-infrared vibrational properties of tetragonal C60 polymer

We report high-resolution far-infrared transmittance measurements and quantum-molecular-dynamics calculations of the two-dimensional tetragonal (7) high-temperature/high-pressure C-60 polymer, as a complement to our previous work on the C-60 dimer, and the one-dimensional orthorhombic (O) and two-dimensional rhombohedral (R) C-60 Polymers [V. C. Long et at., Phys. Rev. B 61, 13 191 (2000)]. The spectral features are assigned as intramolecular modes according to our quantum-molecular-dynamics calculations. In addition, we determine the I-h C-60 parent symmetry of each polymer vibrational mode by expanding the calculated polymer eigenvectors in terms of our calculated eigenvectors for I-h C-60. We find that many of the T-polymer vibrational modes are derived from more than one I-h C-60 parent symmetry, confirming that a weak perturbation model is inadequate for these covalently bonded C-60 balls. In particular, strongly infrared-active T-polymer modes with frequencies of 606 and 610 cm(-1) are found to be derived from a linear combination of three or more I-h C-60 parent modes. As in the O and R polymers, modes of the T polymer with substantial T-1u(2) character, which are polarized in the stretched directions, are found to have large downshifts. Finally, in our comparison of theory with experiment, we find indications that the in-plane lattice of the T polymer may not actually be square

Gravitational-Wave Implications for the Parity Symmetry of Gravity at GeV Scale

Gravitational waves generated by the coalescence of compact binary open a new window to test the fundamental properties of gravity in the strong-field and dynamical regime. In this work, we focus on the parity symmetry of gravity which, if broken, can leave imprints on the waveform of gravitational wave. We construct generalized waveforms with amplitude and velocity birefringence due to parity violation in the effect field theory formalism, then analyze the open data of the ten binary black-hole merger events and the two binary neutron-star merger events detected by LIGO and Virgo collaboration. We do not find any signatures of violation of gravitational parity conservation, thereby setting the lower bound of the parity-violating energy scale to be $0.07$ GeV. This presents the first observational evidence of the parity conservation of gravity at high energy scale, about 17 orders of magnitude tighter than the constraints from the Solar system tests and binary pulsar observation. The third-generation gravitational-wave detector is capable of probing the parity-violating energy scale at $\mathcal{O}(10^2)$ GeV

Reality of Complex Affine Toda Solitons

There are infinitely many topological solitons in any given complex affine Toda theories and most of them have complex energy density. When we require the energy density of the solitons to be real, we find that the reality condition is related to a simple ``pairing condition.'' Unfortunately, rather few soliton solutions in these theories survive the reality constraint, especially if one also demands positivity. The resulting implications for the physical applicability of these theories are briefly discussed.Comment: LaTeX, 15 pages, UBTH-049