Tensor polarized γ-deuteron Compton scattering in effective field theory

The differential cross section for γ-deuteron Compton scattering from a tensor polarized deuteron is computed in an effective field theory. The first non-vanishing contributions to this differential cross section are the interference terms between the leading electric coupling diagrams and the subleading single potential pion exchange diagrams or the subleading magnetic moment coupling diagrams. At 90° photon scattering angle, only the pion term contributes at this order to the tensor polarized differential cross section. This provides a clean way to study the photon pion dynamics in the two nucleon sector. The effect is measurable for photon energies between 40 and 80 MeV provided the uncertainty in the measured cross sections are ≲ 7%.     

K^＋ Scattering with the Nuclear Pion from Chiral Effective Lagrangian

The K^ scattering cross section with the in-medium virtual pion is evaluated in the lowest-order chiral perturbation theory with the density-dependent pion decay constant and mass.The contribution of nuclear pions to the total K^ -nucleus cross section is found to be about 5% and 12% when the excess pion numbers per nucleon nπ=0.057 and 0.13 are used.The inclusion of the off-mass-shell behavior of the K^ π amplitude produced a significant improvement in the K^ -nucleus cross section.     

Pion bremsstrahlung and critical phenomena in relativistic nuclear collisions

We investigate the dependence of pion bremsstrahlung on the deceleration of the nuclei in relativistic heavy ion collisions. The vicinity of an abnormal phase in nuclear matter can lead - owing to critical N-N scattering - to faster deceleration or decreasing transparency of the nuclei. This would result in a threshold enhancement of the pion bremsstrahlung cross section, which in turn can be used to search for abnormal nuclear states experimentally.     

Generalized parton distributions for the nucleon in chiral perturbation theory

We complete the analysis of twist-two generalized parton distributions of the nucleon in one-loop order of heavy-baryon chiral perturbation theory. Extending our previous study of the chiral-even isosinglet sector, we give results for chiral-even isotriplet distributions and for the chiral-odd sector. We also calculate the one-loop corrections for the chiral-odd generalized parton distributions of the pion.     

Charged Pion Form Factor Determination in the Range of Q^2= 0.6-1.6 （GeV／c）^2

Using the most recent differential cross section data for e-p quasi-elastic scattering, the charged pion formation and its form factor Fπ is calculated in the energy range of 2.4-4 GeV at Q^2 = 0.6-1.6 (GeV/c)^2. The functional dependence of the charged pion form factor to the separated cross section aL is investigated and compared to the previously determined result.     

Modeling of a microscopic optical pion-nucleon potential at energies in the (3, 3)-resonance region and nuclear-matter effect on the pion-nucleon amplitude

Differential cross sections for elastic pion scattering on a number of nuclei at energies between 130 and 290 MeV are calculated. For this purpose, use is made of a microscopic optical pion-nucleus potential that was obtained on the basis of the Glauber theory of high-energy scattering and which is determined by the density distribution of pointlike target nucleons and by the pion-nucleon scattering amplitude. The calculation of the cross sections in question is based on solving the respective relativistic wave equation. Three parameters of the pion-nucleon amplitude are fitted in performing a comparison with experimental data. These are the total cross section for pion-nucleon scattering, the ratio of the real to the imaginary part of the forward pion-nucleon scattering amplitude, and the slope parameter. The resulting values of these parameters are then compared with their counterparts for scattering on free nucleons. The character of nuclear-matter-induced changes in these parameters is studied.     

Single-spin asymmetries in semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering on a transversely polarized hydrogen target

Single-spin asymmetries for semi-inclusive electroproduction of charged pions in deep-inelastic scattering of positrons are measured for the first time with transverse target polarization. The asymmetry depends on the azimuthal angles of both the pion (phi) and the target spin axis (phi(S)) about the virtual-photon direction and relative to the lepton scattering plane. The extracted Fourier component sin((phi+phi(S))(pi)(UT) is a signal of the previously unmeasured quark transversity distribution, in conjunction with the Collins fragmentation function, also unknown. The component sin((phi-phi(S)(pi)(UT) arises from a correlation between the transverse polarization of the target nucleon and the intrinsic transverse momentum of quarks, as represented by the previously unmeasured Sivers distribution function. Evidence for both signals is observed, but the Sivers asymmetry may be affected by exclusive vector meson production.     

Alignment effects in deuteron total cross sections

The alignment dependence of the total cross section of deuterium is a purely multiple scattering phenomenon. An estimate of this for pion scattering using Glauber theory shows that the most important contribution is associated with the deuteron D-state (typically 1%) with corrections coming from the double spin flip. Measurements of the proton total cross section with an aligned deuteron beam should also yield other interesting information on the wave function of the deuteron D-state.     

Information from leading neutrons at HERA

In principle, leading neutrons produced in photoproduction and deep-inelastic scattering at HERA have the potential to determine the pion structure function, the neutron absorptive cross section and the form of the pion flux. To explore this potential we compare theoretical predictions for the x_L and p_t spectra of leading neutrons and the Q² dependence of the cross section with the existing ZEUS data.     

What do we (not) know theoretically about solar neutrino fluxes?

Solar model predictions of 8B and p-p neutrinos agree with the experimentally determined fluxes (including oscillations): phi(pp)(measured)=(1.02+/-00.02+/-0.01)phi(pp)(theory) and phi(8B)(measured)=(0.88+/-0.04+/-0.23)phi(8B)(theory), 1sigma experimental and theoretical uncertainties, respectively. We use improved input data for nuclear fusion reactions, the equation of state, and the chemical composition of the Sun. The solar composition is the dominant uncertainty in calculating the 8B and CNO neutrino fluxes; the cross section for the 3He(4He,gamma)7Be reaction is the most important uncertainty for the calculated 7Be neutrino flux.     

Calculation of differential Cross Section for pion absorption on diproton

The asymmetry of the differential cross section for the process of pion absorption onT=1 nucleon pairs in³He and³H is calculated using the experimental partial amplitudes for pion scattering prior to the absorption. The asymmetry is found to be a consequence of the even and odd partial-wave interference.     

Pionic disintegration of the deuteron

Pionic disintegration of the deuteron between threshold and the 3,3 resonance region is described by a model containing one- and two-body absorption. The two-body absorption mechanism is due to pion and ?-meson rescattering calculated from phenomenological Lagrangians. The role of the ?-meson is crucial in reducing the cross section due to pion exchange. The role of the mass distribution of the ρ-meson, hadronic form factors and final state interactions are investigated. Good agreement with empirical results for the total cross section is obtained with a set of currently accepted values for the meson-nucleon coupling constants and the ρ-mass distribution.     

Meson-exchange currents in pion-nucleus double-charge-exchange reactions

The scattering of pions by virtual mesons in the nuclear medium is analysed and its contribution to the process of double-charge exchange in pion-nucleus scattering compared to the conventional mechanism which involves charge exchange in the scattering of the pions with two different nucleons. It is shown that at forward angles the cross section is decreased by about 50% around pion energies T ≈ 130 MeV and increased by a similar amount at energies above the resonance, T ≈ 250 MeV. At large angles the meson-exchange contribution changes the cross section appreciably and can become the dominant mechanism.     

Inclusive charged pion photoproduction on12C using tagged photons in the energy range (200–390) MeV

The photoproduction of charged pions on¹²C has been investigated using the tagged photon beam facility at the Bonn 500 MeV synchrotron. Pions were detected in a broad range magnetic spectrometer. Double differential cross sections for pion emission at fixed photon energies are presented. The integration of the measured distributions yields the total cross section for inclusive pion production. The data are compared to the predictions of a simple model that takes the quasifree production of pions and their subsequent scattering and reabsorption into account.     

Deeply virtual Compton scattering on a virtual pion target

We study deeply virtual Compton scattering on a virtual pion that is emitted by a proton. Using a range of models for the generalized parton distributions of the pion, we evaluate the cross section, as well as the beam spin and beam charge asymmetries in the leading-twist approximation. Studying Compton scattering on the pion in suitable kinematics puts high demands on both beam energy and luminosity, and we find that the corresponding requirements will first be met after the energy upgrade at Jefferson Laboratory. As a by-product of our study, we construct a parameterization of pion generalized parton distributions that has a non-trivial interplay between the x and t dependence and is in good agreement with form factor data and lattice calculations.     

A total energy trigger at large angles used in a calorimetric study of 150 GeV and 300 GeV pion and proton interactions on hydrogen

Hard hadronic scattering was studied by selecting 150 GeV and 300 GeV π^?p and pp events with large energy in a 240 cell calorimeter covering 452 to 1352 in the c.m.s. polar angle and the full 2π azimuth. A downstream calorimeter measured the remaining energy flow at smaller angles. For large energy deposited in the segmented calorimeter the proton induced cross section drops below the pion induced cross section, as expected in a constituent scattering picture. However, neither a simple energy scaling of the cross section nor a dominant jet structure of the events is observed. No evidence was found for recently proposed higher-twist mechanisms leading to events     

A model for pion absorption in nuclei

To describe pion absorption in nuclei, we introduce a model which assumes that incident pion is absorbed by the row of target nucleons along the beam direction. The momentum distribution of these nucleons after absorbing the pion is assumed to be determined by the phase space. The experimental data on the inclusive proton cross section are well reproduced.     

Medium corrections to the reaction cross section for low energy pion4He scattering

We investigate the effects of the Pauli principle and the nucleon binding on the reactive content of the single scattering optical potential. The binding and exclusion principle effects are calculated for low energy pion-⁴He scattering. A careful treatment of the Pauli principle enables us to determine a pion nucleon energy shift representing binding effects from the requirement that the reaction channel opens at the correct threshold energy. We find that binding and Pauli effects lead to a reduction of the reaction cross section by about 30–50% and (expect for very low energies) to a slight increase of the elastic cross section by 5–10%.     

Medium modifications of kaons in pion matter

Kaon in-medium masses and mean-field potentials are calculated in isotopically symmetric pion matter to one loop of chiral perturbation theory. The results are extended to BNL RHIC temperatures using experimental data on piK scattering phase shifts. The kaon in-medium broadening results in an acceleration of the phi-->K(-)K decay. The increased apparent dilepton branching of the phi mesons, observed recently by the NA50, NA49, and PHENIX Collaborations at RHIC, is interpreted in terms of rescattering of secondary kaons inside the pion matter.     

Semi-inclusive deep inelastic lepton scattering in a pion cloud model

In this note we explore the consequences of the pion cloud model for semi-inclusive deep inelastic lepton scattering. We argue that by scattering on a few-nucleon target, the detection of the recoiling target would provide a valuable test of the meson cloud model. We estimate the semi-inclusive cross section for deep inelastic lepton scattering on a³He target, as function of Bjorkenx and target recoil momentum.