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Theory of Elastic Vector Meson Production
The elastic production of vector mesons at HERA is discussed from the
theoretical point of view. We briefly review different models, their successes
and shortcomings. Main emphasis is put on recent issues in perturbative QCD
calculations. Models including the vector meson wave function are compared with
an approach based on parton-hadron duality. We discuss several refinements of
these models in some detail, including the important role of off-diagonal
parton distributions.Comment: 2+12 pages, LaTeX, five figures. Talk given at the Ringberg Workshop:
New Trends in HERA Physics 199
High-Energy Scattering and Diffraction: Theory Summary
New developments in the theory and phenomenology of high-energy scattering
and diffraction that were presented and discussed at DIS2000 are reviewed.Comment: 9 pages, LaTeX, including one PostScript figure. Talk given at the
8th International Workshop on Deep-Inelastic Scattering (DIS2000), 25th-30th
April 2000, Liverpool, England, to appear in the proceeding
Axial Contributions at the Top Threshold
We calculate the contributions of the axial current to top quark pair
production in e+ e- annihilation at threshold. The QCD dynamics is taken into
account by solving the Lippmann-Schwinger equation for the P wave production
using the QCD potential up to two loops. We demonstrate that the dependence of
the total and differential cross section on the polarization of the e+ and e-
beams allows for an independent extraction of the axial current induced cross
section.Comment: LaTeX, 12 pages, including 5 Postscript figures using eps
Comment on the Average Momentum of Top Quarks in the Threshold Region
The behavior of the momentum distribution of top quarks in the threshold
region is investigated. The qualitative behavior, in particular the dependence
of the average momentum on the strong coupling constant can be understood from
analytical calculations for the Coulomb potential. Ambiguities in the relation
between the excitation curve and the top mass are addressed.Comment: Univ. of Karlsruhe preprint TTP93-31, LaTeX, 6 pages including two
figures (uses epsf) appended as uuencoded postscript fil
Polarization in Top Quark Production and Decay near Threshold
Theoretical results are presented for top quarks produced in annihilation of
polarized electrons on positrons. Polarization studies for pairs near
threshold are free from hadronization ambiguities. This is due to the short
lifetime of the top quark. Semileptonic decays are discussed as well as their
applications in studying polarization dependent processes involving top quarks.
The Green function formalism is applied to production at future
colliders with polarized beams. Lippmann--Schwinger equation is solved
numerically for the QCD chromostatic potential given by the two-loop formula at
large momentum transfers and Richardson ansatz at intermediate and small ones.
The polarization dependent momentum distributions of top quarks and their decay
products are calculated.Comment: 6 pages, LaTex (uses epsf.sty, 2 figures appended as uuencoded ps
files). The complete paper, including figures, is also available via
anonymous ftp at ttpux2.physik.uni-karlsruhe.de (129.13.102.139) as
/ttp94-24/ttp94-24.ps, or via www at
http://ttpux2.physik.uni-karlsruhe.de/preprints.html
A Renormalization Group Improved Calculation of Top Quark Production near Threshold
The top quark cross section close to threshold in annihilation is
computed including the summation of logarithms of the velocity at
next-to-next-to-leading-logarithmic order in QCD. The remaining theoretical
uncertainty in the normalization of the total cross section is at the few
percent level, an order of magnitude smaller than in previous
next-to-next-to-leading order calculations. This uncertainty is smaller than
the effects of a light standard model Higgs boson.Comment: changed figures, added reference
Exclusive and photoproduction and the low gluon
We study exclusive vector meson photoproduction, with
or , at NLO in collinear factorisation, in order to
examine what may be learnt about the gluon distribution at very low . We
examine the factorisation scale dependence of the predictions. We argue that,
using knowledge of the NLO corrections, terms enhanced by a large
can be reabsorbed in the LO part by a choice of the factorisation scale. (In
these exclusive processes takes the role of Bjorken-.) Then, the scale
dependence coming from the remaining NLO contributions has no
enhancements. As a result, we find that predictions for the amplitude of
production are stable to within about . This will allow
data for the exclusive process at the LHC, particularly
from LHCb, to be included in global parton analyses to constrain the gluon PDF
down to . Moreover, the study of exclusive
photoproduction indicates that the gluon density found in the recent global PDF
analyses is too small at low and low scales.Comment: 21 pages, 6 figures. Text significantly improved, references added,
version to be published in J.Phys.
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