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Vector meson production in ultra-peripheral collisions at LHC
Vector meson production in ultra-peripheral collisions of heavy ions at LHC is calculated in VDM and color dipole approaches.
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Nucleon structure as a background for determination of fundamental parameters.
We consider deep inelastic (quasi)elastic lepton-nucleon scattering and investigate the possibilities of eliminating or suppressing theoretical uncertainties induced by the nucleon structure in measuring the standard model parameters or in searching for new physics. On the basis of rather general assumptions about nucleon structure we have obtained new relations between cross sections and neutral current parameters which are weakly dependent on the nucleon structure. We also investigate the dependence of the QCD $\ensuremath{\Lambda}$ parameter extracted from the data on the unknown large-scale nucleon structure and propose a modification of the conventional QCD predictions in which the dependence on this uncertainty factor is suppressed.
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Spectra Particles From $\Lambda_c^+$ and $\Sigma_c^{++}$ Charmed Baryon Decays Produced in Neutrino $N$ Interactions
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Electroproduction of charmonia off nuclei
In a recent publication we have calculated elastic charmonium production in ep collisions employing realistic charmonia wave functions and dipole cross sections and have found good agreement with the data in a wide range of s and Q^2. Using the ingredients from those calculations we calculate exclusive electroproduction of charmonia off nuclei. Here new effects become important, (i) color filtering of the c-cbar pair on its trajectory through nuclear matter, (ii) dependence on the finite lifetime of the c-cbar fluctuation (coherence length) and (iii) gluon shadowing in a nucleus compared to the one in a nucleon. Total coherent and incoherent cross sections for C, Cu and Pb as functions of s and Q^2 are presented together with some differential cross sections. The results can be tested with future electron-nucleus colliders or in peripheral collisions of ultrarelativistic heavy ions.
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SPECTRALITY OF GELL-MANN-LOW FUNCTION
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Lepton flavor violating photoleptonic effect
We study lepton flavor violating analogs of the photoelectric effect, with a final μ or T instead of an electron: γe → μ and γe → T. On the basis of the general parametrization of the matrix element of the electromagnetic current we estimate the upper limits for the cross sections and event rates of these processes, imposed by the current experimental bounds on μ → ey and T → eγ decays.
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Analysis of intermediate-energy heavy-ion collisions within relativistic mean-field two-fluid model
A three-dimensional realization of the relativistic mean-field two-fluid model is described. First results of analyzing the inclusive data on the yield of nuclear fragments and pions, as well as the Plastic-Ball rapidity distributions of nuclear fragments are presented. For comparison, calculations within the conventional relativistic hydrodynamical model with the same mean fields are also performed. In spite of a pronounced sensitivity of the nuclear dynamics to the nuclear equation of state (more precisely, to the form of the mean fields), it is found that all the analyzed observables, except the pion spectra, appear to be fairly insensitive to it. The sensitivity to the nuclear stopping power is slightly higher. The original sensitivity of the rapidity distributions to the stopping power is smeared out by the Plastic-Ball filter and selection criterion. Nevertheless, one can conclude that the stopping power induced by the Cugnon parametrization of the nucleon-nucleon cross sections is not quite sufficient for a more adequate reproduction of the experimental data.
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Dynamical Instabilities in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions and Associated Phenomena
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Relativistic mean field kinetic approach to hadron plasma and three-fluid dynamics
Abstract Proceeding from the Walecka mean field theory, a system of relativistic kinetic equations has been derived for the description of hadron plasma formation and evolution in nucleus-nucleus collisions at high energies. These equations comprise the dynamics of relativistic self-consistent σ and ω fields and, in particular, satisfactorily described ground states of nuclei. The constructed collision integrals are expressed via inclusive hadron-hadron cross sections and allow one to describe inelastic production of new particles in the process of the nucleus-nucleus collision. A method of solving these kinetic equations, based on a model representation of distribution functions, is proposed. An ansatz for the distribution functions is constructed proceeding from the assumption of incomplete stopping of nuclei in the collision process. This ansatz make it possible to reduce the set of kinetic equations to a set of equations of the three-fluid dynamics type for the parameters of the distribution functions.
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Partial-transparency effects in high-energy collisions of heavy ions
A model is proposed for heavy-ion collisions at E/sub lab/approx.1 GeV/nucleon for the case of an incomplete statistical equilibrium in the highly excited nuclear matter. This approach can reproduce the characteristic double-humped structure of the experimental rapidity distributions of secondary particles.
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Quantum simulations of thermodynamic properties of strongly coupled quark-gluon plasma
A strongly coupled quark-gluon plasma (QGP) of heavy constituent quasi-particles is studied by a path-integral Monte-Carlo method. This approach is a quantum generalization of the model developed by Gelman, Shuryak and Zahed. It is shown that this method is able to reproduce the QCD lattice equation of state and also yields valuable insight into the internal structure of the QGP. The results indicate that the QGP reveals liquid-like rather than gas-like properties. At temperatures just above the critical one it was found that bound quark-antiquark states still survive. These states are bound by effective string-like forces and turns out to be colorless. At the temperature as large as twice the critical one no bound states are observed. Quantum effects turned out to be of prime importance in these simulations.