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The dihadron fragmentation function and its evolution
Dihadron fragmentation functions and their evolution arestudied in the process of e+e- annihilation. Under the collinearfactorization approximation and facilitated by the cut-vertex technique,the two hadron inclusive cross section at leading order (LO) is shown tofactorize into a short distance parton cross section and a long distancedihadron fragmentation function. We provide the definition of such adihadron fragmentation function in terms of parton matrix elements andderive its DGLAP evolution equation at leading log. The evolutionequation for the non-singlet quark fragmentation function is solvednumerically with a simple ansatz for the initial condition and resultsare presented for cases of physical interest.
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Probe initial parton density and formation time via jet quenching
Medium modification of jet fragmentation function due to multiple scattering and induced gluon radiation leads directly to jet quenching or suppression of leading particle distribution from jet fragmentation. One can extract an effective total parton energy loss which can be related to the total transverse momentum broadening. For an expanding medium, both are shown to be sensitive to the initial parton density and formation time. Therefore, one can extract the initial parton density and formation time from simultaneous measurements of parton energy loss and transverse momentum broadening. Implication of the recent experimental data on effects of detailed balance in parton energy loss is also discussed.
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Role of multiple minijets in high-energy hadronic reactions.
The multiplicity distributions of charged particles in high-energy hadron collisions including the production of multiple minijets are considered in the framework of the eikonal formalism. Large-multiplicity events at high energies are found to be dominated by the production of many jets with 2{le}{ital P}{sub {ital T}}{le}4 GeV. The contributions from larger-{ital P}{sub {ital T}} minijets become prevailing for high-multiplicity fluctuations in narrow rapidity intervals.
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Berry curvature and four-dimensional monopoles in the relativistic chiral kinetic equation.
We derive a relativistic chiral kinetic equation with manifest Lorentz covariance from Wigner functions of spin-1/2 massless fermions in a constant background electromagnetic field. It contains vorticity terms and a four-dimensional Euclidean Berry monopole which gives an axial anomaly. By integrating out the zeroth component of the 4-momentum p, we reproduce the previous three-dimensional results derived from the Hamiltonian approach, together with the newly derived vorticity terms. The phase space continuity equation has an anomalous source term proportional to the product of electric and magnetic fields (FσρF[over ˜]σρ∼EσBσ). This provides a unified interpretation of the chiral magnetic and vortical effects, chiral anomaly, Berry curvature, and the Berry monopole in the framework of Wigner functions.
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Relics of Minijets amid Anisotropic Flows in High-energy Heavy-ion Collisions
Two dimensional low-$p_T$ dihadron correlations in azimuthal angle $\phi$ and pseudo-rapidity $\eta$ in high-energy heavy-ion collisions are investigated within both the HIJING Monte Carlo model and an event-by-event (3+1)D ideal hydrodynamic model. Without final-state interaction and collective expansion, dihadron correlations from HIJING simulations have a typical structure from minijets that contains a near-side two-dimensional peak and an away-side ridge along the $\eta$-direction. In contrast, event-by-event (3+1)D ideal hydrodynamic simulations with fluctuating initial conditions from the HIJING+AMPT model produce a strong dihadron correlation that has an away-side as well as a near-side ridge. Relics of intrinsic dihadron correlation from minijets in the initial conditions still remain as superimposed on the two ridges. By varying initial conditions from HIJING+AMPT, we study effects of minijets, non-vanishing initial flow and longitudinal fluctuation on the final state dihadron correlations. With a large rapidity gap, one can exclude near-side correlations from minijet relics and dihadron correlations can be described by the superposition of harmonic flows up to the 6th order. When long-range correlations with a large rapidity gap are subtracted from short-range correlations with a small rapidity gap, the remaining near-side dihadron correlations result solely from relics of minijets. Low transverse momentum hadron yields per trigger ($p_T^{\rm trig} <4$ GeV/$c$, $p_T^{\rm asso}<2$ GeV/$c$) in central heavy-ion collisions are significantly enhanced over that in p+p collisions while widths in azimuthal angle remain the same, in qualitative agreement with experimental data.
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Report of the RHIC Workshop p + A subgroup
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Multiscale technicolor and top quark decay
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Production of the charged top-pions from TC2 model at the TeV energy e-γ colliders
The top-pions (Πt0,±) and the top-Higgs (ht0) are the typical particles predicted by the topcolor-assisted technicolor (TC2) model and the observation of these particles can be regarded as direct evidence of the TC2 model. In this paper, we study three pair production processes of these new particles at the next generation eγ colliders, i.e., e-γ→e-Πt+Πt-, e-γ→νeΠt-Πt0 and e-γ→νeΠt-ht0. The results show that the production rates can reach the level 100–101 fb with reasonable parameter values. So one can expect that enough signals could be produced in future high- energy linear collider experiments. Furthermore, the flavor-changing (FC) decay modes Πt-→bc̄, Πt0(ht0)→tc̄ can provide us with the typical signal to detect these new particles.
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Effects of little Higgs models on single top production at the e- gamma colliders
In the framework of the littlest Higgs($LH$) model and the littlest Higgs model with T-parity($LHT$), We investigate the single top production process $e^{-}\gamma\to \nu_{e}b\bar{t}$, and calculate the corrections of these two models to the cross section of this process. We find that in the reasonable parameter space, the correction terms for the tree-level $Wtb$ couplings coming from the $LHT$ model can generate significantly corrections to the cross section of this process, which might be detected in the future high energy linear $e^{+}e^{-}$ collider($ILC$) experiments. However, the contributions of the new gauge boson $W^{\pm}_{H}$ predicted by the $LH$ model to this process is very small.
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THE ASSOCIATED PRODUCTION OF THE NEUTRAL TOP-PION WITH A PAIR OF THIRD FAMILY QUARKS AT THE HADRON COLLIDERS
We study the associated production of the neutral top-pion $(\Pi_t^0)$ with the third family quarks within the context of the topcolor-assisted technicolor model at the hadron colliders. The studies show that, at the Tevatron, the cross-sections of all these processes are too small to produce enough identified signals. But the cross-sections can be largely enhanced at the LHC. Specially for the processes $pp\rightarrow t\bar{t}\Pi_t^0$ and $pp\rightarrow t\bar{c}\Pi_t^0$, the cross-sections can reach the level of a few hundred fb even a few pb for the light neutral top-pion. With the high yearly luminosity 100 fb-1 at the LHC, over 104 signals can be produced via the above two processes. There exists an ideal flavor-changing mode to detect neutral top-pion, i.e. $\Pi_t^0\rightarrow t\bar{c}$, because the SM background of such production mode are very clean. Therefore, we can conclude that neutral top-pion should be observable at the LHC via the processes $pp\rightarrow t\bar{t}\Pi_t^0$ and $pp\rightarrow ...
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Production of the neutral top pion at the e gamma colliders
In the framework of topcolor-assisted technicolor(TC2) model, we study a neutral toppion production process $e^{-}\gamma\to e^{-}\Pi^{0}_{t}$ in this paper. Our results show that the production cross section of $e^{-}\gamma\to e^{-}\Pi^{0}_{t}$ can reach the level of several tens fb, and over $10^{3}$ neutral toppion events can be produced in the planned $e^+e^-$ linear colliders each year. Therefore, such a toppion production process provides us a unique chance to detect toppion events and test the TC2 model. On the other hand, the cross section of $e^{-}\gamma\to e^{-}\Pi^{0}_{t}$ is about one order of magnitude larger than those of some similar processes in SM and MSSM(i.e., $e^{-}\gamma\to e^{-}H$ in SM and $e^{-}\gamma\to e^{-}H^{0}(A^0,h^0)$ in MSSM). So, we can easily distinguish the neutral toppion from other neutral Higgs bosons in SM and MSSM.