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Monte Carlo Approach to Radiative Corrections in Bhabha Scattering
§ 1. lntroduction It has become a common understanding that detailed theoretical predictions for e+ e- experiments should include the radiative corrections with multi-photon contribu­ tion. A well-known example is the significant modification of the apparent cross section around the Z-boson pole at LEP.ll The study of inclusive processes with multi-photon emission has led some authors to propose several kinds of Monte Carlo generators. 2 l In a pre~ious paper 3 l we have reported a new method for the Monte Carlo generator of multi-photon and have shown some results obtained via a computer progam written for muon pair production in e+ e- annihilation. This is a QED version of the parton shower model which has been studied extensively in QCD. In this paper we generalize this method to the Bhabha scattering by employing essen­ tially the same algorithm as that for muon pair production. It will be convenient to summarize the main features of the algorithm to generate photons. We rely on the technique to sum up all the collinear singularities, which plays an essential role in the parton shower model. 4 J The present model is limited to the leading logarithmic approximation, though there is no difficulty in principle to include the next-to-leading corrections. 5 l This approximation is reasonable as the QED coupling a is very small compared with that in QCD. Another remarkable feature is that the transverse momentum distribution of produced photons is derived correctly once one imposes the four-momentum conservation at each of branching vertices. 4 l This is a consequence of the branching, e±--> e±y, being aprocess of 1--> 2 bodies.
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Numerical computation of two-loop box diagrams with masses
Abstract A new approach is presented to evaluate multi-loop integrals, which appear in the calculation of cross-sections in high-energy physics. It relies on a fully numerical method and is applicable to a wide class of integrals with various mass configurations. As an example, the computation of two-loop planar and non-planar box diagrams is shown. The results are confirmed by comparisons with other techniques, including the reduction method, and by a consistency check using the dispersion relation.
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Forward photon energy spectrum at LHC 7 TeV p-p collisions measured by LHCf
Abstract The LHCf experiment is one of the LHC forward experiments. The aim is to measure the energy and the transverse momentum spectra of photons, neutrons and π 0 's at the very forward region (the pseudo-rapidity range of η > 8.4 ), which should be critical data to calibrate hadron interaction models used in the air shower simulations. LHCf successfully operated at s = 900 GeV and s = 7 TeV proton–proton collisions in 2009 and 2010. We present the first physics result, single photon energy spectra at s = 7 TeV proton–proton collisions and the pseudo-rapidity ranges of η > 10.94 and 8.81 η 8.9 . The obtained spectra were compared with the predictions by several hadron interaction models and the models do not reproduce the experimental results perfectly.
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A new microscopic approach to the rotational intensity relations: Application of the high-spin cranking formalism
Abstract The intensity relations for electromagnetic transition rates in the rotational coupling scheme have been a basic tool to understand the properties of nuclear collective rotations. In particular the correction terms to the leading-order relation give the response of the intrinsic motion to the Coriolis and centrifugal forces. We propose a simple and systematic method to calculate the matrix elements of intrinsic operators entering the generalized intensity relations that uses the microscopic cranking formalism. Examples are given to show the usefulness of the method.
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Search for a permanent EDM using laser cooled radioactive atom
The search for the electric-dipole moment (EDM) of laser-cooled francium (Fr) atoms could lead to a measurement for the electron EDM. It is predicted that the electron EDM would be enhanced by approximately three orders of magnitude in heavy atoms such as Fr. Laser-cooling and trapping techniques are expected to suppress statistical and systematic errors in precision measurements. The magneto-optical trap was achieved using stable rubidium in a developing factory of laser-cooled radioactive atoms. In light of the results from the rubidium experiments, we found that an upgrade of each apparatus is preferred for Fr trapping.
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Microscopic study of tetrahedrally symmetric nuclei by an angular-momentum and parity projection method
We study the properties of the nuclear rotational excitations with hypothetical tetrahedral symmetry by employing the microscopic mean-field and residual-interaction Hamiltonians with angular-momentum and parity projection method; we focus on the deformed nuclei with tetrahedral doubly-closed shell configurations. We find that for pure tetrahedral deformation the obtained excitation patterns satisfy the characteristic features predicted by group-representation theory applied to the tetrahedral symmetry group. We find that a gradual transition from the approximately linear to the characteristic rigid-rotor, parabolic energy-vs.-spin dependence occurs as a function of the tetrahedral deformation parameter. The form of this transition is compared with the similar well-known transition in the case of quadrupole deformation.
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Shallow and diffuse spin-orbit potential for proton elastic scattering from neutron-rich helium isotopes at 71 MeV/nucleon
Vector analyzing powers for proton elastic scattering from 8He at 71 MeV/nucleon have been measured using a solid polarized proton target operated in a low magnetic field of 0.1 T. The spin-orbit potential obtained from a phenomenological optical model analysis is found to be significantly shallower and more diffuse than the global systematics of stable nuclei, which is an indication that the spin-orbit potential is modified for scattering involving neutron-rich nuclei. A close similarity between the matter radius and the root-mean-square radius of the spin-orbit potential is also identified.