Effects of inelastic (re)scattering processes ss→gg and gg→ss on strange hadron production in pp collisions at RHIC and LHC energies

The rapidity densities at mid-rapidity and the transverse momentum distributions for strange hadrons produced in pp collisions are analyzed using the modi ed PACIAE model by considering the effect of inelastic (re)scattering processes ss→gg and gg→ss in parton (re)scattering. The calculated results of the transverse momentum spectra of the strangeness fitting with data measured by STAR and ALICE Collabora- tions can be improved, especially at large transverse momentum levels. This demonstrates that the effect of inelastic (re)scattering processes of ss→gg and gg→ss is not negligible at RHIC and LHC energy levels.     

Azimuthal distributions of radial momentum and velocity in relativistic heavy ion collisions

Azimuthal distributions of radial (transverse) momentum, mean radial momentum, and mean radial velocity of final-state particles are suggested for relativistic heavy ion collisions. Using the AMPT transport model with string melting, the distributions of Au+Au collisions at 200 GeV are presented and studied. It is demonstrated that the distribution of total radial momentum is more sensitive to the anisotropic expansion, as the anisotropies of final-state particles and their associated transverse momentums are both counted in the measurement. The mean radial velocity distribution is compared with the radial flow velocity. The thermal motion contributes an isotropic constant to the mean radial velocity.     

Large transverse momentum dilepton and photon production by photoproduction processes

We calculate the production of large transverse momentum dileptons and photons by using direct and resolved photoproduction processes in relativistic heavy ion collisions. Considering the central collisions of heavy nuclei at Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and Large Hadron Collider (LHC) energies, we find that the photoproduction processes modify the dilepton and photon production in the large transverse momentum region.     

Probing magnetic moment operators in H_γ production and H→τ~+τ~-γ rare decay

The magnetic moment(a_γ) and weak magnetic moment(a_W) of charged leptons and quarks are sensitive to quantum effects of new physics heavy resonances.In effective field theory,a_γ and a_W are induced by two independent operators.Therefore,one has to measure both ay and aw to shed light on new physics.The aw's of the SM fermions are measured at the LEP.In this work,we analyze the contributions from magnetic and weak magnetic moment operators in the processes of pp→H_γ and gg→H→τ~+τ~-γ at the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider.We demonstrate that the two processes can cover most of the parameter space that cannot be probed at the LEP.     

Shear and bulk viscosity of high-temperature gluon plasma

We calculate the shear viscosity(η) and bulk viscosity(ζ) to entropy density(s) ratios η/s and ζ/s of a gluon plasma system in kinetic theory, including both the elastic gg?gg forward scattering and the inelastic soft gluon bremsstrahlung gg?ggg processes. Due to the suppressed contribution to η and ζ in the gg?gg forward scattering and the effective g?gg gluon splitting, Arnold, Moore and Yaffe(AMY) and Arnold, Dogan and Moore(ADM) have got the leading order computations for η and ζ in high-temperature QCD matter. In this paper, we calculate the correction to η and ζ in the soft gluon bremsstrahlung gg?ggg process with an analytic method.We find that the contribution of the collision term from the gg?ggg soft gluon bremsstrahlung process is just a small perturbation to the gg?gg scattering process and that the correction is at～ 5% level. Then, we obtain the bulk viscosity of the gluon plasma for the number-changing process. Furthermore, our leading-order result for bulk viscosity is the formula ζ∝(α_s~2 T~3)/(lnα_s~(-1)) in high-temperature gluon plasma.     

Centrality Dependence of K~*(892)~0 and φ(1020) Production at LHC

We study the centrality dependence of the mid-rapidity(|y| 0.5) yields and transverse momentum distributions of K~*(892)~0 and φ(1020) resonances produced in Pb + Pb collisions at sNN~(1/2)= 2.76 TeV. The midrapidity density( dN/dy) and the shape of the transverse momentum spectra are well reproduced by an earlier proposed Unified Statistical Thermal Freeze-out Model(USTFM), which incorporates the effects of both longitudinal as well as transverse hydrodynamic flow. The freeze-out properties in terms of kinetic freeze-out temperature and transverse flow velocity parameter are extracted from the model fits to the transverse momentum data provided by the ALICE experiment at the LHC. The kinetic freeze-out temperature is found to increase with decreasing event centrality while the transverse flow velocity parameter shows a mild decrease on moving towards peripheral collisions. Moreover the centrality dependence of the mid-rapidity system size at freeze-out has also been studied in terms of transverse radius parameter.     

Projectile fragment emission in the fragmentation of ~(56)Fe on C,Al and CH_2 targets at 471 A MeV

The emission angle and the transverse momentum distributions of projectile fragments produced in the fragmentation of ⁵⁶Fe on CH₂, C and Al targets at 471 A MeV are measured. It is found that for the same target, the average value and width of the angular distribution decrease with an increase of the projectile fragment charge; for the same projectile fragment, the average value of the distribution increases and the width of the distribution decreases with increasing the target charge number. The transverse momentum distribution of a projectile fragment can be explained by a single Gaussian distribution and the averaged transverse momentum per nucleon decreases with the increase of the charge of projectile fragment. The cumulated squared transverse momentum distribution of a projectile fragment can be explained well by a single Rayleigh distribution. The temperature parameter of the emission source of the projectile fragment, calculated from the cumulated squared transverse momentum distribution, decreases with the increase of the size of the projectile fragment.     

Positron scattering and ionization of neon atoms—theoretical investigations

Although positron scattering with inert gas atoms has been studied in theory as well as in experiment, there are discrepancies. The present work reports all the major total cross sections of e+-neon scattering at incident energies above ionization threshold, originating from a complex potential formalism. Elastic and cumulative inelastic scatterings are treated in the complex spherical e+-atom potential. Our total inelastic cross section includes positronium formation together with ionization and excitation channels in Ne. Because of the Ps formation channel it is difficult to separate out ionization cross sections from the total inelastic cross sections. An approximate method similar to electron-atom scattering has been applied to bifurcate ionization and cumulative excitation cross sections at energies from threshold to 2000 eV. Comparisons of present results with available data are made. An important outcome of this work is the relative contribution of different scattering processes, which we have shown by a bar-chart at the ionization peak.     

Recent results from the HERMES experiment

Results are presented from the Hermes experiment which uses semi-inclusive deep inelastic lepton scattering to study the flavor structure of the nucleon.Data have been accumulated for pion and kaon double spin asymmetries,single-spin azimuthal asymmetries for meson electroproduction,deep virtual Compton scattering （DVCS）,and meson multiplicities.These results provide information on the properties of the strange sea in the proton,constraints on transverse momentum dependent quark parton distributions,and demonstrate the promise of DVCS for isolating the total angular momentum carried by the quarks in the proton.     

STRUCTURE FUNCTIONS

<正>Updated September 2013 by B.Foster(University of Hamburg/DESY),A.D.Martin(University of Durham),and M.G.Vincter(Carleton University).19.1.Deep inelastic scattering High-energy lepton-nucleon scattering(deep inelastic scattering)plays a key role in determining the partonic structure of the proton.The process eN→e'X is illustrated in Fig.19.1.The filled circle in this figure represents the internal structure of the proton which can be expressed in terms of structure functions.     

Rayleigh-like distribution of particle transverse momenta in collisions at high energies

The transverse momentum distributions of final-state particles produced in collisions at high en-ergies are studied by using a two-component Rayleigh-like distribution.This representation is based on Liu＇s multisource ideal gas model which describes protons and fragments in high energy nucleus-nucleus collisions.The calculated results are in good agreement with the experimental data of Au-Au,Cu-Cu,d-Au,and pp collisions at the relativistic heavy ion collider energies.The experimental particle momentum distributions of p-Be collisions at 6.4,12.3,and 17.5 GeV/c,as well as Au-Au collisions at 1.5 AGeV are well described by a model based on a single Rayleigh-like distribution of particle transverse momenta.     

Dark matter,Z′, and vector-like quark at the LHC and b→sμμ anomaly

Combining the b→sμ~+μ~-anomaly and dark matter observables,we study the capability of the LHC to test dark matter,Z',and a vector-like quark.We focus on a local U(1)_(L_μ-L_τ) model with a vector-like SU(2)_L doublet quark Q and a complex singlet scalar whose lightest component X_I is a candidate of dark matter.After imposing relevant constraints,we find that the b→sμ~+μ~-anomaly and the relic abundance of dark matter favor m_(X_I) 350 GeV and m_(Z') 450 GeV for m_Q 2 TeV and m_(X_R) 2 TeV(the heavy partner of m_(X_I)).Current searches for jets and missing transverse momentum at the LHC sizably reduce the mass ranges of the vector-like quark,and m_Q is required to be larger than 1.7 TeV.Finally,we discuss the possibility of probing these new particles at the high luminosity LHC via the QCD process pp→DD followed byD→s(b)X_I,D→s(b)Z'X_I,and then Z'→μ~+μ~-.Taking a benchmark point of m_Q=1.93 TeV,m_(Z')=170 GeV,and m_(X_I)=145 GeV,we perform a detailed Monte Carlo simulation and find that this benchmark point can be accessed at the 14 TeV LHC with an integrated luminosity of 3000 fb~(-1).     

Prospectives of the hadron program in ATLAS

One of the first measurements that will be made at the LHC by ATLAS deals with the properties of inelastic collisions,namely the central charged particle density and transverse momentum distributions.Current predictions of these distributions have large uncertainties in the LHC energy range.We describe the ATLAS minimum bias triggers,designed to select all kind of inelastic interactions,and the performance of the track reconstruction software which was adapted to soft particle track reconstruction.The precision with which the minimum bias distributions can be measured with early data is presented and the uncertainties on the inelastic distributions due to trigger bias is discussed.     

Transverse momentum spectra in high-energy nucleus-nucleus, proton-nucleus and proton-proton collisions

The transverse momentum distributions of final-state particles produced in nucleus-nucleus (AA), proton-nucleus (pA), and proton-proton (pp) collisions at high energies are investigated using a multisource ideal gas model. Our calculated results show that the contribution of hard emission can be neglected in the study of transverse momentum spectra of charged pions and kaons produced in Cu-Cu collisions at √s_NN=22.5 GeV. And if we consider the contribution of hard emission, the transverse momentum spectra of p and p produced in Cu-Cu collisions at √s_NN=22.5 GeV, K_s⁰ produced in Pb-Pb collisions at 158 A GeV, J/ψ particles produced in p-Pb collisions at 400 GeV and π⁺ , K⁺, p produced in proton-proton collisions at √s=200 GeV, can be described by the model, especially in the tail part of spectra.     

Measurements of decay branching fractions of H→b■/c■/gg in associated (e~+e~-/μ~+μ~-)H production at the CEPC

The high-precision measurement of Higgs boson properties is one of the primary goals of the Circular Electron Positron Collider(CEPC).The measurements ofH→b■/c■/gg decay branching fraction in the CEPC experiment is presented,considering a scenario of analysing 5000 fb-1 e~+e~-collision data with the center-of-mass energy of 250 Ge V.In this study the Higgs bosons are produced in association with a pair of leptons,dominantly mediated by the ZH production process.The statistical uncertainty of the signal cross section is estimated to be about 1%in theH→b■ final state,and approximately 5%-10%in theH→c■/gg final states.In addition,the main sources of the systematic uncertainties and their impacts to the measurements of branching fractions are discussed.This study demonstrates the potential of precise measurement of the hadronic final states of the Higgs boson decay at the CEPC,and will provide key information to understand the Yukawa couplings between the Higgs boson and quarks,which are predicted to be the origin of quarks’masses in the standard model.     

From De Sitter Special Relativity and Snyder＇s Model to Complete Yang Model

The de Sitter special relativity on the Beltrami-de Sitter-spacetime and Snyder＇s model in the momentum space can be combined together with an IR-UV duality to get the complete Yang model at both classical and quantum levels, which are related by the proposed Killing quantization. It is actually a special relativity based on the principle of relativity of three universal constants （c, ρp, R）.     

Parton Momentum Distribution at the Moment of Jet-Parton Collisions

The early parton momentum distribution is extracted by using the STAR collaboration data of ridge particles associated with a near-side jet in centred AuAu collisions at √SNN = 200 GeV. The ridge particles are identified as medium partons kicked by the jet near the surface and they carry direct information on the parton momentum distribution at the moment of jet-patton collisions. The extracted patton momentum distribution has a thermallike transverse momentum distribution but a rapidity plateau structure with a relatively fiat rapidity distribution at mid-rapidities with sharp kinematic boundaries at large rapidities that depend on the transverse momentum.     

Searches for the technicolor signatures via gg→W～(±)π_t～(■) at the Large Hadron Collider

In this paper,we calculate the production of a charged top pion in association with a W boson via gg fusion at CERN's Large Hadron Collider in the context of the topcolor assisted technicolor model.We find that the total cross section of pp→gg→W～(±)π_t～(■) is several dozen femtobarns with reasonable values of the parameters,and the total cross section of pp→W～(±)π_t～(■) can reach a few hundred femtobarns when we consider the sum of the contributions of these two parton subprocesses,gg→W～(±)π_t～(■) and b→W～...