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High twist effects in hadronic collisions
We analyze the first nonleading power corrections to inclusive hadron‐hadron scattering cross sections. Such corrections decrease as 1/Q relative to leading power in the case of polarized hadronic collisions, or as 1/Q2 in the case of unpolarized hadronic collisions. We show why such corrections may be treated in perturbative QCD, in terms of generalized factorization theorems.
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Nuclear Shadowing at Small Values of x
The nuclear parton distributions are given in a model where the nucleus is viewed as a collection of uncorrelated nucleons. Using these distributions, we determine nuclear shadowing at small values of x. We find that the effect of nuclear shadowing goes away very slowly when Q2 increases. Our results are consistent with the experiment of Goodman et al. The amount of nuclear shadowing expected at higher energies is discussed.
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Single transverse spin asymmetries in direct photon production
Abstract We derive single transverse spin asymmetries for direct photon production cross sections in perturbative QCD, relating them to partonic matrix elements that couple the quark and gluon fields. Our method may be generalized to asymmetries for other reactions.
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Nuclear dependence in direct photon production.
We calculate the nuclear dependence of direct photon production in hadron-nucleus collisions. In terms of a multiple scattering picture, we factorize the cross section for direct photon production into calculable short-distance partonic parts times multiparton correlation functions in nuclei. We present the hadron-nucleus cross section as {ital A}{sup {alpha}} times the hadron-nucleon cross section. Using information on the multiparton correlation functions extracted from photon-nucleus experiments, we compute the value of {alpha} as a function of transverse momentum of the direct photon. We also compare our results with recent data from Fermilab experiment E706. {copyright} {ital 1996 The American Physical Society.}
121107230
Universal nuclear dependence in high energy nuclear collisions
In this talk, I present a systematic calculation of process independent nuclear dependence to nuclear parton distribution functions (nPDFS). In terms of the collinear QCD factorization approach, we calculate the leading-pole contributions to DGLAP evolution equations of nPDFs, and we evaluate both real and virtual Feynman diagrams without using the AGK cutting rule. Our result has an advantage for studying nuclear dependence in a region where active parton momentum fraction x is not too small.
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Gluonic contribution to g1 and its relationship to the spin-dependent parton distributions.
We examine the suggestion of Altarelli and Ross and of Carlitz, Collins, and Mueller that there is a hard gluonic contribution to the first moment of the proton's spin-dependent structure function {ital g}{sub 1}. We find that if the soft (collinear) divergence in the gluonic contribution is regulated dimensionally or with a quark mass, then the first moment vanishes. More generally, we suggest that the hard gluonic contribution to {ital g}{sub 1} be identified by subtracting certain contributions that are attributable to the spin-dependent quark distributions. We show that the first moment of the resulting hard gluonic contribution vanishes, provided that the UV regulator for the spin-dependent quark distributions respects gauge invariance, Lorentz invariance, and the analyticity structure of the unregulated distributions. However, by relaxing the Lorentz-invariance requirement, we are able to construct quark distributions such that the hard gluonic contribution to the first moment of {ital g}{sub 1} is nonzero. The corresponding quark distributions are related to matrix elements of Lorentz-variant operators. Hence, they have no analogue in the standard operator-product expansion and do not satisfy the usual forms of the quark sum rules. We conclude that the size of the gluonic contribution to the first moment of {italmore » g}{sub 1} is entirely a matter of the convention used in defining the quark distributions.« less
119325793
Gluing Nekrasov Partition Functions
In this paper we summarise the localisation calculation of 5D super Yang-Mills on simply connected toric Sasaki-Einstein (SE) manifolds. We show how various aspects of the computation, including the equivariant index, the asymptotic behaviour and the factorisation property are governed by the combinatorial data of the toric geometry. We prove that the perturbative partition function on a simply connected SE manifold corresponding to an n-gon toric diagram factorises to n copies of perturbative part (zero instanton sector) of the Nekrasov partition function. This leads us to conjecture a prescription for the computation of the complete partition function, by gluing n copies of the full Nekrasov partition functions. This work is a generalisation of some earlier computation carried out on Yp,q manifolds, whose moment map cone has a quadrangle base and our result is valid for manifolds whose moment map cones have pentagon base, hexagon base, etc. The algorithm we used for dealing with general cones may also be of independent interest.
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Odd Chern-Simons Theory, Lie Algebra Cohomology and Characteristic Classes
We investigate the generic 3D topological field theory within the AKSZ-BV framework. We use the Batalin-Vilkovisky (BV) formalism to construct explicitly cocycles of the Lie algebra of formal Hamiltonian vector fields and we argue that the perturbative partition function gives rise to secondary characteristic classes. We investigate a toy model which is an odd analogue of Chern-Simons theory, and we give some explicit computation of two point functions and show that its perturbation theory is identical to the Chern-Simons theory. We give a concrete example of the homomorphism taking Lie algebra cocycles to Q-characteristic classes, and we reinterpret the Rozansky-Witten model in this light.
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2D and 3D topological field theories for generalized complex geometry
Using the Alexandrov-Kontsevich-Schwarz-Zaboronsky (AKSZ) prescription we construct 2D and 3D topological field theories associated to generalized complex manifolds. These models can be thought of ...
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The perturbative partition function of supersymmetric 5D Yang-Mills theory with matter on the five-sphere
A bstractBased on the construction by Hosomichi, Seong and Terashima we consider N = 1 supersymmetric 5D Yang-Mills theory with matter on a five-sphere with radius r. This theory can be thought of as a deformation of the theory in flat space with deformation parameter r and this deformation preserves 8 supercharges. We calculate the full perturbative partition function as a function of $ {{{r} \left/ {{g_Y^2}} \right.}_M} $, where $ {g_Y}_M $ is the Yang-Mills coupling, and the answer is given in terms of a matrix model. We perform the calculation using localization techniques. We also argue that in the large N-limit of this deformed 5D Yang-Mills theory this matrix model provides the leading contribution to the partition function and the rest is exponentially suppressed.
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Knot invariants and new weight systems from general 3D TFTs
Abstract We introduce and study the Wilson loops in general 3D topological field theories (TFTs), and show that the expectation value of Wilson loops also gives knot invariants as in the Chern–Simons theory. We study the TFTs within the Batalin–Vilkovisky (BV) and the Alexandrov–Kontsevich–Schwarz–Zaboronsky (AKSZ) framework, and the Ward identities of these theories imply that the expectation value of the Wilson loop is a pairing of two dual constructions of (co)cycles of certain extended graph complex (extended from Kontsevich’s graph complex to accommodate the Wilson loop). We also prove that there is an isomorphism between the same complex and certain extended Chevalley–Eilenberg complex of Hamiltonian vector fields. This isomorphism allows us to generalize the Lie algebra weight system for knots to weight systems associated with any homological vector field and its representations. As an example we construct knot invariants using holomorphic vector bundle over hyperKahler manifolds.