Evolution of Shower Parton Distributions in a Jet from Quark Recombination Model

The evolution of shower parton distributions in a jet is investigated in the framework of a quark recombination model. The distributions are parameterized and the Q^2 dependence of the parameters is given by polynomials of In Q^2 for a wide range of Q^2     

Medium Density and Parton Energy Loss in Gold-Gold Collisions from the Recombination Model

The pion production at mid-rapidity in gold-gold collisions at √s = 200 GeV is investigated by the parton recombination model. The density of the hot medium produced in the collisions and the hard parton energy loss effect are obtained by fitting the experimental data. Both of them are found to have power-law dependence on the number of binary collisions. The implication of such dependence on the nuclear modification factor is discussed.     

Can a Higgs boson be produced at the LHC?

A simple model is designed to simulate, by using the mean free path method, the probability of Higgs boson production at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The probability that the colliding particles could get close to a given distance with different colliding energies is discussed in this model. Calculated results imply that the probability of producing a Higgs boson is near zero according to the existing theoretical mechanism for Higgs boson production.