377 research outputs found
A Fixed-Order Calculation of the Heavy-Quark Fragmentation Function in e+e- Collisions
We use a recently completed O(alpha_s^2) fixed-order calculation of the
heavy-flavour production cross section in e+e- collisions to compute the
heavy-quark fragmentation function. We fit the result of our calculation,
convoluted with a Peterson fragmentation function, to available data for charm
production, and thus obtain a value for the parameter epsilon in the Peterson
function. We discuss the relevance of mass effects and of subleading terms in
our calculation.Comment: 7 pages, 2 eps figure
Renewable electricity production with some wasted second-life components
Renewable energy systems are playing an important role to reduce CO2 emission and provide electricity for daily use in rural areas. But brand new components with up-to-date technology could be far too expensive for many potential users (rural communities in many developing countries. As a consequence, turning waste components into energy production systems could be a good opportunity to reach these two goals simultaneously. In this paper, a disposal induction motor, a car battery and an Uninterrupted Power Supply (UPS) are combined together in order to generate electrical energy from pico-hydro power. The control of the RMS output voltage and frequency is presented with a comprehensive state-space model, simulation and experimental validation results are provided
QCD Mechanisms for Double Quarkonium and Open Heavy Meson Hadroproduction
Double production on the order of 20-30 pb has been observed by the
NA3 collaboration. These pairs, measured in interactions
at 150 and 280 GeV and in interactions at 400 GeV, carry a large
fraction of the projectile momentum, for the 150
GeV beam and at 280 GeV. We examine several sources of pair production within QCD, including
production, leading-twist production and decay, and the
materialization of heavy-quark Fock states in the projectile. We estimate the
production cross section and the single and double momentum and mass
distributions for each, comparing the results with the NA3 data, and predict
production in interactions at 800 GeV, accessible to
current fixed-target experiments. We also discuss the observable implications
of open heavy meson pair production from the intrinsic heavy quark Fock states.Comment: Revtex, APS style, 16 pages, 15 figures available as uuencoded
postscript files (or ps files) from the Autho
Differential Distributions for Heavy Flavour Production at HERA
We compute pseudorapidity and transverse momentum distributions for charm and
bottom production at HERA. We examine the effect of next-to-leading order QCD
corrections, the effect of possible intrinsic transverse momenta of the
incoming partons, and of fragmentation. We compare our results with full Monte
Carlo simulation using HERWIG. The importance of the hadronic component of the
photon is also studied. We examine the possibility to distinguish among
different parametrizations of the photon parton densities using charm
production data, and the possibilty to extract information about the small-
behaviour of the gluon density of the proton. We also give a prediction for the
transverse momentum and pseudorapidity distributions for bottom production at
HERA.Comment: 25 pages, Latex, epsfig, 19 tar-gzip-uuencoded figures. Also
available from http://surya11.cern.ch/users/nason/mis
Perturbative Prediction for Parton Fragmentation into Heavy Hadron
By expanding functions of parton fragmentation into a heavy hadron in the
inverse of the heavy quark mass we attempt to factorize them into
perturbative- and nonperturbative parts. In our approach the nonperturbative
parts can be defined as matrix elements in heavy quark effective theory, the
shape of the functions is predicted by perturbative QCD. In this work we
neglect effect at order of and calculate the perturbative parts at
one-loop level for heavy quark- and gluon fragmentation. We compare our results
from leading log approximation with experimental results from
colliders and find a deviation below or at 10% level. Adding effect of higher
order in it can be expected to reduce the deviation. The size of
matrix elements appearing at the order we consider for several types of heavy
hadrons is determined.Comment: 21 pages + 3 pages figures, plain te
Hadron multiplicity induced by top quark decays at the LHC
The average charged hadron multiplicities induced by top quark decays are
calculated in pQCD at LHC energies. Different modes of top production are
considered. Proposed measurements can be used as an additional test of pQCD
calculations independent on a fragmentation model.Comment: 12 pages, 12 figures, to be published elsewher
Heavy-Quark Correlations in Direct Photon-Photon Collisions
In two-photon collisions at LEP2 and a future linear collider heavy
quarks (mainly charm) will be pair-produced rather copiously. The production
via direct and resolved photons can be distinguished experimentally via a
remnant-jet tag. We study correlations of the heavy quarks at next-to-leading
order in QCD in the direct channel, which is free from phenomenological parton
densities in the photon. These correlations are therefore directly calculable
in perturbative QCD and provide a stringent test of the production mechanism.Comment: 10 pages, LaTeX, epsfig, 5 figures appended as uuencoded file
(hardcopy can be obtained upon request from [email protected] or
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Is There a Significant Excess in Bottom Hadroproduction at the Tevatron?
We discuss the excess in the hadroproduction of B mesons at the Tevatron. We
show that an accurate use of up-to-date information on the B fragmentation
function reduces the observed excess to an acceptable level. Possible
implications for experimental results reporting bottom quark cross sections,
also showing an excess with respect to next-to-leading order theoretical
predictions, are discussed.Comment: 5 pages, Latex, 4 figures. Submitted to Phys. Rev. Let
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