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Two-photon annihilation into pion pairs
We discuss pion pair production in two-photon collisions in two different
kinematical regimes. When both photons are real and at moderately large
center-of-mass energy s we elaborate on partonic transverse momentum and
Sudakov corrections within the hard scattering approach. We also point out the
difference between our approach and that of other authors. When one of the
photons is highly virtual the produced pion pair can be described in terms of a
two-pion distribution amplitude, for which we derive the perturbative limit at
large s.Comment: Latex, 7 pages, 6 Postscript figures, Talk given at "PHOTON2000",
Ambleside, UK, August 2000; to appear in the proceedings. Eq. (2) and typo
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The Handbag Contribution to Two-Photon Annihilation Into Meson Pairs
We report on the handbag contribution to two-photon annihilation into pion
and kaon pairs at large energy and momentum transfer. The underlying physics of
the mechanism is outlined and characteristic features and predictions are
presented.Comment: 6 pages, 4 figures, uses ws-procs9x6.cls. Talk presented at workshops
QCD-N'02, Ferrara, Italy, April 3-6, and Exclusive Processes at High Momentum
Transfer, Jefferson Lab, Newport News, VA, USA, May 15-18, 200
Graptemys pseudogeographica
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Pseudemys alabamensis
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The annihilation of virtual photons into pseudoscalar mesons
We investigate the possibility to constrain the pion distribution amplitude
from the gamma* gamma* -> pi transition. For a surprisingly large range in the
two photon virtualities we find that the transition form factor is essentially
independent of the distribution amplitude. This in turn entails a
parameter-free prediction of QCD. The gamma* gamma* -> eta, eta' form factors
are also briefly discussed. We estimate that experimental studies might be
feasible at the existing e+ e- experiments BaBar, Belle, and CLEO.Comment: 22 pages latex, 9 figure
Magnetic Field Seeding by Galactic Winds
The origin of intergalactic magnetic fields is still a mystery and several
scenarios have been proposed so far: among them, primordial phase transitions,
structure formation shocks and galactic outflows. In this work we investigate
how efficiently galactic winds can provide an intense and widespread "seed"
magnetisation. This may be used to explain the magnetic fields observed today
in clusters of galaxies and in the intergalactic medium (IGM). We use
semi-analytic simulations of magnetised galactic winds coupled to high
resolution N-body simulations of structure formation to estimate lower and
upper limits for the fraction of the IGM which can be magnetised up to a
specified level. We find that galactic winds are able to seed a substantial
fraction of the cosmic volume with magnetic fields. Most regions affected by
winds have magnetic fields in the range -12 < Log B < -8 G, while higher seed
fields can be obtained only rarely and in close proximity to wind-blowing
galaxies. These seed fields are sufficiently intense for a moderately efficient
turbulent dynamo to amplify them to the observed values. The volume filling
factor of the magnetised regions strongly depends on the efficiency of winds to
load mass from the ambient medium. However, winds never completely fill the
whole Universe and pristine gas can be found in cosmic voids and regions
unaffected by feedback even at z=0. This means that, in principle, there might
be the possibility to probe the existence of primordial magnetic fields in such
regions.Comment: 14 pages, 5 figures. Accepted for publications by MNRAS. A high
resolution version of the paper is available at
http://astronomy.sussex.ac.uk/~sb207/Papers/bb.ps.g
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