One-loop factorization for inclusive hadron production in p-A collisions in the saturation formalism

We demonstrate the QCD factorization for inclusive hadron production in p-A collisions in the saturation formalism at one-loop order, with explicit calculation of both real and virtual gluon radiation diagrams. In particular, we find that the cross section can be written into a factorization form in the coordinate space at the next-to-leading order, while the naive form of the convolution in the transverse momentum space does not hold. The collinear divergences associated with the incoming parton distribution of the nucleon and the outgoing fragmentation function of the final-state hadron, as well as the rapidity divergence with small-x dipole gluon distribution of the nucleus are factorized into the splittings of the associated parton distribution and fragmentation functions and the energy evolution of the dipole gluon distribution function. The hard coefficient function is evaluated at one-loop order, and contains no divergence.     

核–核碰撞中喷注淬火导致的双强子产生压低

通过考虑喷注淬火效应,分析了相对论性高能重离子碰撞中双强子的产生.结果表明,喷注淬火压低了大不变质量谱和大横动量的双强子的产生.与质子–质子碰撞的情形类似,核–核的擦边碰撞(碰撞参数很大)产生的强子有很强的背靠背的关联.在核–核对心碰撞(碰撞参数很小)中,由于喷注穿过强作用物质导致的喷注淬火介质效应,产生的强子的背靠背的关联几乎消失.     

强作用介质诱导的光子辐射和双轻子产生

考察了相对论性高能重离子碰撞中产生的硬部分子喷注穿过强作用介质时,喷注与介质中的部分子多次散射诱导的光子辐射与双轻子产生,得到了对应于opacity展开第一阶的光子横动量谱,辐射光子导致的喷注的能量损失以及双轻子的不变质量谱,结果表明,光子的产生率随横动量的增加而降低,双轻子的产生率随其不变质量的增加而减小,辐射光子导致的能量损失线性依赖强作用介质靶的厚度。     

Parton physics from large-momentum effective field theory

Parton physics,when formulated as light-front correlations,are difficult to study non-perturbatively,despite the promise of lightfront quantization.Recently an alternative approach to partons have been proposed by re-visiting original Feynman picture of a hadron moving at asymptotically large momentum.Here I formulate the approach in the language of an effective field theory for a large hadron momentum P in lattice QCD,LaMET for short.I show that using this new effective theory,parton properties,including light-front parton wave functions,can be extracted from lattice observables in a systematic expansion of 1/P,much like that the parton distributions can be extracted from the hard scattering data at momentum scales of a few GeV.     

Possible evidence for deconfinement in hadron collisions

The collision of hadrons at very high energies produces an entity whose energy density is extremely large resulting in the emission of a large number of hadrons. Though the entity may not have transited into the deconfined parton phase, the very high energy density may cause more than one charged hadron to be emitted at any instant. This yields a new multiplicity distribution, termed the GS distribution which fits the data as well as the popular negative binomial distribution. Neither the GS nor the NB distribution alone agrees with the data beyond 200 GeV, but a weighted sum of GS and NB distributions fits the experimental results exceedingly well. Since the negative binomial distribution arises from the branching of partons, we interpret the increase with energy of the negative binomial component in the weighted sum as the onset of a deconfined phase. The rising cross section for the negative binomial component parallels very closely the inclusive cross section for hadron jets which also is considered a consequence of parton branching.     

利用光前量子化方法计算电子的广义横向动量分布函数

强子和轻子是目前实验所能观测到的最小微观结构,但根据量子色动力学（QCD）,强子内还存在着部分子结构。在理论计算中,从Wigner函数出发可以得到多种分布函数,如横向动量分布函数（TMD）、广义部分子分布函数（GPD）以及广义横向动量分布函数（GTMD）。其中GTMD包含粒子内部部分子的三维动量和位置信息,从GTMD出发通过对横向动量积分和取横向转移动量为零分别得到GPD和TMD。本工作通过引入电子的光前波函数计算出物理电子的GTMD,并以此为出发点得到物理电子的TMD和GPD。一方面通过与微扰论的TMD和GPD的结果对比可以证明我们的计算结果是合理的,同时讨论了GPD中P波和S波的贡献。另一方面给出物理电子的内部部分子分布随横向转移动量、部分子横向动量以及纵向动量分数的变化关系。In anlogous to hadron, electron has similar structure because of dressing. So we can define the Transverse Momentum Distribution functions (TMD), the General Parton Distribution functions (GPD) and General Transverse Momentum Distribution functions (GTMD) of electron which come from the Wigner distribution function. The GTMD contain the information of momentum and position of parton in one particle, and the GPD or TMD can be calculated by integration of transverse momentum or setting the transverse transfer momentum which equal to zero. We introduce the light-front wave function of electron to calculate the GTMD of dressed electron, and then get the TMD and GPD. Our results are verified by comparing to calculations in literature and the contribution of GPD of P-wave and S-wave. And we show that the distribution functions at different transverse momentum transfer, transverse momentum of parton and the fraction of longitudinal momentum.     

The ratios of identified strange associated hadrons in the di-hadron correlation in STAR

Di-hadron correlations will help understand the parton densities near jets traversing the medium, the process of hadron formation and the di-hadron correlation away-side shape. We report on the di-hadron correlations between unidentified charged hadron triggers with identified associated strange particles Λ and K _S ⁰) in Au+Au collisions at 200 GeV in STAR. Particle yields and ratios are extracted on the near-side and awayside of the trigger particle. The baryon to meson ratios for associated particles as a function of Δϕ are also extracted. The shape of these ratios on the away-side is studied to understand the away-side’s pattern. The particle-type composition in the hump regions in away-side is compared to that in the near-side peak. These ratios may help to elucidate the particle composition in the away-side and near-side of the correlation pattern arising due to a fast parton traversing the medium.     

Suppression of back-to-back hadron pairs at forward rapidity in d+Au collisions at √s(NN)=200 GeV

Back-to-back hadron pair yields in d+Au and p+p collisions at √s(NN)=200 GeV were measured with the PHENIX detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. Rapidity separated hadron pairs were detected with the trigger hadron at pseudorapidity |η|<0.35 and the associated hadron at forward rapidity (deuteron direction, 3.0<η<3.8). Pairs were also detected with both hadrons measured at forward rapidity; in this case, the yield of back-to-back hadron pairs in d+Au collisions with small impact parameters is observed to be suppressed by a factor of 10 relative to p+p collisions. The kinematics of these pairs is expected to probe partons in the Au nucleus with a low fraction x of the nucleon momenta, where the gluon densities rise sharply. The observed suppression as a function of nuclear thickness, p(T), and η points to cold nuclear matter effects arising at high parton densities.     

Matrix-element corrections to parton shower simulations for Higgs hadroproduction

We implement matrix-element corrections to HERWIG parton shower simulations for Standard Model Higgs boson production at hadron colliders. We study the Higgs transverse momentum distribution and compare different versions of HERWIG and resummed calculations. The HERWIG results exhibit a remarkable improvement as many more events are generated at large transverse momentum after the inclusion of matrix-element corrections.     

Statistical hadronization model and transverse momentum spectra of hadrons in high energy collisions

A detailed analysis of transverse momentum spectra of several identified hadrons in high energy collisions within the canonical framework of the statistical model of hadronization is performed. The study of particle momentum spectra requires an extension of the statistical model formalism used to handle particle multiplicities, which is described in detail starting from a microcanonical treatment of single hadronizing clusters. Also, a new treatment of extra strangeness suppression is presented which is based on the enforcement of fixed numbers of pairs in the primary hadrons. The considered center-of-mass energies range from to 30 GeV in hadronic collisions ( and Kp) and from 15 to 35 GeV in collisions. The effect of the decay chain following hadron generation is accurately and exhaustively taken into account by a newly proposed numerical method. The exact conservation at low energy and the increasing hard parton emission at high energy bound the validity of the presently taken approach within a limited center-of-mass energy range. However, within this region, a clear consistency is found between the temperature parameter extracted from the present analysis and that obtained from fits to average hadron multiplicities in the same collision systems. This finding indicates that in the hadronization process the production of different particle species and their momentum spectra are two closely related phenomena governed by one parameter. Received: 31 October 2001 / Published online: 15 February 2002     

Electroproduction of hadrons in nuclei

Recent results from HERMES and expectations from Jlab in the hadron leptoproduction of nuclei are presented. The possible interpretations in terms of medium modifications of the parton fragmentation function and the implications on the parton energy loss are discussed.     

非弹性度和集团数在高能极限下的行为

在胶子相互作用模型基础上作了两点改进,把所有部分子的相互作用(qq,qg,gg)都包括进来,并考虑部分子分布函数随能量标度的演化.在没有区分软硬过程的贡献及部分子分布函数的具体形式下,导出了非弹性度和集团数在高能极限下的行为.     

高能强子–强子碰撞中喷注性质的蒙特卡洛研究

在喷注“圆锥判定法”的基础上,对高能强子–强子碰撞中产生的喷注(微喷注)的性质进行了蒙特卡洛研究.采用以喷注动量为z轴的“喷注坐标系”,给出了表征喷注性质的各物理量在新坐标系中的分布情况.结果表明,圆锥判定法能够作为一种有效手段来对高能强子–强子碰撞和相对论重离子碰撞中发生的硬和半硬过程开展实验研究.由有喷注事件和无喷注事件的多重数分布可以看到,E_t=2GeV是用圆锥法确定喷注的合理的横能截断值.     

Polarized coincidence electroproduction scaling laws for the final state

We study the inclusive electroproduction of single hadrons off a polarized target. Bjorken scaling laws and the hadron azimuthal distribution are derived from the quark parton model.The polarization asymmetries scale when the target spin is along the direction of the virtual photon, and (apart from one significant exception) vanish for transverse spin. These results have a simple explanation; emphasis is given both to the general mathematical formalism and to intuitive physical reasoning.Through this framework we consider other cases: quarks with anomalous magnetic moment; renormalization group effects and asymptotic freedom; production of vector mesons (whose spin state is analysed by their decay); relation to large transverse momentum hadron production; and a covariant parton model calculation. We also look into spin-0 partons and Regge singularities.All of these cases (apart from the last two) modify the pattern of conclusions. Vector meson production shows polarization enhancements in the density matrix element ?₀₊; the renormalization group approach does not lead to any significant suppressions. They are also less severe in parton models for large p_T hadrons, and are not supported by the covariantly formulated calculation. The origins of these differences are isolated and used to exemplify the sensitivity that polarized hadron electroproduction has to delicate detail that is otherwise concealed.     

Multiplicity distributions inside parton cascades developing in a medium

The explanation of the suppression of high-p_T hadron yields at RHIC in terms of jet-quenching implies that the multiplicity distributions of particles inside a jet and jet-like particle correlations differ strongly in nucleus–nucleus collisions at RHIC or at the LHC from those observed at e⁺e^- or hadron colliders. We present a framework for describing the medium-induced modification, which has a direct interpretation in terms of a probabilistic medium-modified parton cascade, and which treats leading and subleading partons on an equal footing. We show that our approach can account for the strong suppression of single inclusive hadron spectra measured in Au–Au collisions at RHIC, and that this implies a characteristic distortion of the single inclusive distribution of soft partons inside the jet. We determine, as a function of the jet energy, to what extent the soft fragments within a jet can be measured above some momentum cut. PACS 12.38.Mh; 25.75.-q     

High energy hadron spin flip amplitude

The high energy part of the hadron spin flip amplitude is examined in the framework of the new high energy general structure (HEGS) model of the elastic hadron scattering at high energies. The different forms of the hadron spin flip amplitude are compared in the impact parameters representation. It is shown that the existing experimental data of the proton-proton and proton-antiproton elastic scattering at high energy in the region of the diffraction minimum and at large momentum transfer give support in the presence of the energy-independent part of the hadron spin flip amplitude with the momentum dependence proposed in the works by Galynskii–Kuraev.     

Transverse momentum in semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering

Within the framework of perturbative quantum chromodynamics we derive the evolution equations for transverse momentum dependent distributions and apply them to the case of semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering. The evolution equations encode the perturbative component of transverse momentum generated by collinear parton branchings. The current fragmentation is described via transverse momentum dependent parton densities and fragmentation functions. Target fragmentation instead is described via fracture functions. We present, to leading logarithmic accuracy, the corresponding semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering cross-section, which applies to the entire phase space of the detected hadron. Some phenomenological implications and further developments are briefly outlined.     

Quenching of hadron spectra due to the collisional energy loss of partons in the quark-gluon plasma

We estimate the energy loss distribution and investigate the quenching of hadron spectra in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions due to the collisional energy loss of energetic partons from hard parton collisions in the initial stage.     

The transverse momentum of partons

It is shown that when the parton model is formulated in proper, covariant fashion the average transverse momentum of the partons in a hadron varies with their fractional longitudinal momentum x. It is small near x = 0, but could rise to a large as x → 1.