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Exclusive semi-leptonic decays of bottom baryons
1990
Abstract We calculate the exclusive semi-leptonic bottom baryon decays Λ b →Λ c +l − + v l , Σ b → Σ c +l − + v l and Σ b →Σ c ∗ +l − + v l in the spectator quark model. The helicity structure of the baryonic current transitions Λb→Λc, Σ b →Σ c (Σ c ∗ ) is matched to the helicity structure of the free quark current transitions b → c at minimum momentum transfer q2 = 0. The results are continued to q2≠0 by pole dominated form factors. We obtain semi-leptonic baryonic decay rates which are close to the corresponding semi-leptonic mesonic decay rates.
NuTeV sin2θWanomaly and nuclear parton distributions revisited
2006
By studying the Paschos-Wolfenstein (PW) ratio of deep inelastic νFe and Fe scattering cross sections, we show that it should be possible to explain the NuTeV sin2θW anomaly with quite conventional physics, by introducing mutually different nuclear modifications for the valence-u and valence-d quark distributions of the protons in iron. Keeping the EKS98 nuclear modifications for uV+dV as a baseline, we find that some 20-30 % nuclear modifications to the uV and dV distributions account for the change induced in the PW ratio by the NuTeV-suggested increase Δsin2θW = 0.005. We show that introduction of such nuclear modifications in uV and dV individually, does not lead into contradiction with…
Collins asymmetries in inclusive chargedKKandKπpairs produced ine+e−annihilation
2015
We present measurements of Collins asymmetries in the inclusive process e^+e^− → h_1h_2X, h_1h_2 = KK, Kπ, ππ, at the center-of-mass energy of 10.6 GeV, using a data sample of 468 fb^(−1) collected by the BABAR experiment at the PEP-II B factory at SLAC National Accelerator Center. Considering hadrons in opposite thrust hemispheres of hadronic events, we observe clear azimuthal asymmetries in the ratio of unlike sign to like sign, and unlike sign to all charged h_1h_2 pairs, which increase with hadron energies. The Kπ asymmetries are similar to those measured for the ππ pairs, whereas those measured for high-energy KK pairs are, in general, larger.
Flow analysis with 3-dim ultra-relativistic hydro
2009
We review how flow observables of ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions are influenced by the initial condition, the description of the fluid dynamical (FD) stage and freeze-out (FO). We discuss the effects of the resolution of the FD treatment, the arising smoothing and numerical viscosity, as well as the consequences of final FO. This final FO stage includes confinement and simultaneous formation of constituent quarks. From the energy and momentum conservation at the FO stage pressure change and flow velocity may occur, which further modifies the observables.
D mesic nuclei
2010
The energies and widths of several D-0 meson bound states for different nuclei are obtained using a D-meson selfenergy in the nuclear medium, which is evaluated in a selfconsistent manner using techniques of unitarized coupled-channel theory. The kernel of the meson-baryon interaction is based on a model that treats heavy pseudoscalar and heavy vector mesons on equal footing, as required by heavy quark symmetry. We find D-0 bound states in all studied nuclei, from C-12 up to Pb-208. The inclusion of vector mesons is the keystone for obtaining an attractive D-nucleus interaction that leads to the existence of D-0-nucleus bound states, as compared to previous studies based on SU(4) flavor sym…
A search for new physics in dijet mass and angular distributions in pp collisions at [subscript √s=7] TeV measured with the ATLAS detector
2011
A search for new interactions and resonances produced in LHC proton–proton (pp) collisions at a centre-of-mass energy ps = 7 TeV was performed with the ATLAS detector. Using a dataset with an integrated luminosity of 36 pb−1, dijet mass and angular distributions were measured up to dijet masses of 3.5 TeV and were found to be in good agreement with Standard Model predictions. This analysis sets limits at 95% CL on various models for new physics: an excited quark is excluded for mass between 0.60 and 2.64 TeV, an axigluon hypothesis is excluded for axigluon masses between 0.60 and 2.10 TeV and quantum black holes are excluded in models with six extra space–time dimensions for quantum gravity…
Energy dependence of the differences between the quark and gluon jet fragmentation
1996
Three jet events arising from decays of the Z beson, collected by the DELPHI detector, were used to measure differences in quark and gluon fragmentation. Gluon jets were anti-tagged by identifying b quark jets. Unbiased quark jets came from events with two jets plus one photon. Quark and gluon jet properties in different energy ranges were compared for the first time within the same detector. Quark and gluon jets of nearly the same energy in symmetric three jet event topologies were also compared. Using three independent methods, the average value of the ratio of the mean charged multiplicities of gluon and quark jets is [ r ] = 1.241 +/- 0.015 (stat.) +/- 0.025 (syst.). Gluon jets are broa…
Tevatron constraints on models of the Higgs boson with exotic spin and parity using decays to bottom-antibottom quark pairs.
2015
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On the implementation of NLO high energy factorization in single inclusive forward hadron production
2017
Single inclusive particle production cross sections in high energy hadron collisions at forward rapidity are an important benchmark process for the CGC picture of small x QCD. Recent calculations of this process have not led to a stable perturbative expansion for this quantity at high transverse momenta. We consider the quark channel production cross section using the new rapidity factorization procedure proposed by Iancu et al. We show that for fixed coupling one does indeed obtain a physically meaningful cross section which is positive and reduces in a controlled way to previous leading order calculations. We also consider a running coupling that depends on the transverse momentum of the …
Predictions for multiplicities and flow harmonics in 5.44 TeV Xe+Xe collisions at the CERN Large Hadron Collider
2018
We present the next-to-leading-order event-by-event EKRT model predictions for the centrality dependence of the charged hadron multiplicity in the pseudorapidity interval $|\eta|\le 0.5$, and for the centrality dependence of the charged hadron flow harmonics $v_n\{2\}$ obtained from 2-particle cumulants, in $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=5.44$ TeV Xe+Xe collisions at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. Our prediction for the 0-5 \% central charged multiplicity is $dN_{\rm ch}/d\eta =1218\pm 46$. We also predict $v_n\{2\}$ in Xe+Xe collisions to increase more slowly from central towards peripheral collisions than those in a Pb+Pb system. We find that at $10 \dots 50$\% centralities $v_2\{2\}$ is smaller and $v_…