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Monday·June 13, 2016

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  1. 06

    [Submitted on 10 Jun 2016] (cross-list from hep-ph)

    Theoretical estimate on tensor-polarization asymmetry in proton-deuteron Drell-Yan process

    S. Kumano🇯🇵 · Qin-Tao Song🇯🇵

    Tensor-polarized parton distribution functions are new quantities in spin-one hadrons such as the deuteron, and they could probe new quark-gluon dynamics in hadron and nuclear physics. In charged-lepton deep inelastic scattering (DIS), they are studied by the twist-two structure functions and . The HERMES collaboration found unexpectedly large values than a naive theoretical expectation based on the standard deuteron model. The situation should be significantly improved in the near future by an approved experiment to measure at JLab (Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility). There is also an interesting indication in the HERMES result that finite antiquark tensor polarization exists. It could play an important role in solving a mechanism on tensor structure in the quark-gluon level. The tensor-polarized antiquark distributions are not easily determined from the charged-lepton DIS; however, they can be measured in a proton-deuteron Drell-Yan process with a tensor-polarized deuteron target. In this article, we estimate the tensor-polarization asymmetry for a possible Fermilab Main-Injector experiment by using optimum tensor-polarized PDFs to explain the HERMES measurement. We find that the asymmetry is typically a few percent. If it is measured, it could probe new hadron physics, and such studies could create an interesting field of high-energy spin physics. In addition, we find that a significant tensor-polarized gluon distribution should exist due to evolution, even if it were zero at a low scale. The tensor-polarized gluon distribution has never been observed, so that it is an interesting future project.

    Comments:
    10 pages, 9 eps figures, 4 style files, Phys. Rev. D in press
    Subjects:
    High Energy Physics — Phenomenology (hep-ph); High Energy Physics — Experiment (hep-ex); High Energy Physics — Lattice (hep-lat); Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
    arXiv:
    1606.03149 [pdf]
    PRD(2016)·30 citations
  2. 07

    [Submitted on 10 Jun 2016] (cross-list from hep-ph)

    Quarkonium Contribution to Meson Molecules

    E. Cincioglu🇹🇷 · J. Nieves🇪🇸 · A. Ozpineci🇹🇷 · A. U. Yilmazer🇹🇷

    Starting from a molecular picture for the X(3872) resonance, this state and its J^{PC}=2++ HQSS partner [X2(4012)] are analyzed within a model which incorporates possible mixings with 2P charmonium states. Since it is reasonable to expect the bare chi_{c1}(2P) to be located above the D\bar D* threshold, but relatively close to it, the presence of the charmonium state provides an effective attraction that will contribute to bind the X(3872), but it will not appear in the 2++ sector. Indeed in this latter sector, the chi_{c2}(2P) should provide an effective small repulsion, because it is placed well below the D*\bar D* threshold. We show how the 1++ and 2++ bare charmonium poles are modified due to the D(*)\bar D(*) loop effects, and the first one is moved to the complex plane. The meson loops produce, besides some shifts in the masses of the charmonia, a finite width for the 1++ dressed charmonium state. On the other hand, the X(3872) and X2(4012) start developing some charmonium content, which is estimated by means of the compositeness Weinberg sum-rule. We also show that for X(3872) molecular probabilities of around 70-90 %, the X2 resonance destabilizes and disappears from the spectrum, becoming either a virtual state or being located deep into the complex plane, with decreasing influence in the D* \bar D* scattering line.

    Comments:
    46 pages, 5 figures; Accepted in EPJC
    Subjects:
    High Energy Physics — Phenomenology (hep-ph); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
    arXiv:
    1606.03239 [pdf]
    EPJC(2016)·85 citations
  3. 08

    [Submitted on 10 Jun 2016] (cross-list from hep-ph)

    HYDRO + JETS (HYDJET++) event generator for Pb+Pb collisions at LHC

    L. Bravina🇳🇴 · B.H. Brusheim Johansson🇳🇴 · J. Crkovská🇫🇷 · G. Eyyubova🇷🇺 · V. Korotkikh🇷🇺 · I. Lokhtin🇷🇺 · L. Malinina🇷🇺 · E. Nazarova🇷🇺 · S. Petrushanko🇷🇺 · A. Snigirev🇷🇺 · E. Zabrodin🇳🇴

    The Monte Carlo event generator HYDJET++ is one of the few generators, designed for the calculations of heavy-ion collisions at ultrarelativistic energies, which combine treatment of soft hydro-like processes with the description of jets traversing the hot and dense partonic medium. The model is employed to study the azimuthal anisotropy phenomena, dihadron angular correlations and event-by-event (EbyE) fluctuations of the anisotropic flow in Pb+Pb collisions at TeV. The interplay of soft and hard processes describes the violation of the mass hierarchy of meson and baryon elliptic and triangular flows at p_T > 2 GeV/c, the fall-off of the flow harmonics at intermediate transverse momenta, and the worsening of the number-of-constituent-quark (NCQ) scaling of elliptic/triangular flow at LHC compared to RHIC energies. The cross-talk of v_2 and v_3 leads to emergence of higher order harmonics in the model and to appearance of the ridge structure in dihadron angular correlations in a broad pseudorapidity range. HYDJET++ possesses also the dynamical EbyE fluctuations of the anisotropic flow. The model results agree well with the experimental data.

    Comments:
    8 pages, 6 figures, contribution to Proceedings of the Winter Workshop on Nuclear Dynamics 2016
    Subjects:
    High Energy Physics — Phenomenology (hep-ph); Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
    arXiv:
    1606.03250 [pdf]
    J.Phys.Conf.Ser.(2016)·4 citations
  4. 09

    [Submitted on 10 Jun 2016] (cross-list from hep-ph)

    Collinearly improved JIMWLK evolution in Langevin form

    Yoshitaka Hatta🇯🇵 · Edmond Iancu🇫🇷

    The high-energy evolution of Wilson line operators, which at leading order is described by the Balitsky-JIMWLK equations, receives large radiative corrections enhanced by single and double collinear logarithms at next-to-leading order and beyond. We propose a method for resumming such logarithmic corrections to all orders, at the level of the Langevin formulation of the JIMWLK equation. The ensuing, collinearly-improved Langevin equation features generalized Wilson line operators, which depend not only upon rapidity (the logarithm of the longitudinal momentum), but also upon the transverse size of the color neutral projectile to which the Wilson lines belong. This additional scale dependence is built up during the evolution, via the condition that the successive emissions of soft gluons be ordered in time. The presence of this transverse scale in the Langevin equation furthermore allows for the resummation of the one-loop running coupling corrections.

    Comments:
    24 pages, 1 figure
    Subjects:
    High Energy Physics — Phenomenology (hep-ph); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
    arXiv:
    1606.03269 [pdf]
    JHEP(2016)·35 citations
  5. 10

    [Submitted on 10 Jun 2016] (cross-list from hep-ph)

    Chiral Relaxation Time at the Crossover of Quantum Chromodynamics

    M. Ruggieri🇨🇳 · G. X. Peng🇨🇳 · M. Chernodub🇷🇺

    We study microscopic processes responsible for chirality flips in the thermal bath of Quantum Chromodynamics at finite temperature and zero baryon chemical potential. We focus on the temperature range where the crossover from chirally broken phase to quark-gluon plasma takes place, namely MeV. The processes we consider are quark-quark scatterings mediated by collective excitations with the quantum number of pions and -meson, hence we refer to these processes simply as \sugg{to} one-pion (one-) exchange\sugg{s}. We use a Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model to compute equilibrium properties of the thermal bath, as well as the relevant scattering kernel to be used in the collision integral to estimate the chiral relaxation time . We find fm/c around the chiral crossover.

    Comments:
    16 pages, 8 figures. One figure (lower panel of Fig. 6) added in comparison with V1. New version to appear on Phys. Rev. D
    Subjects:
    High Energy Physics — Phenomenology (hep-ph); High Energy Physics — Lattice (hep-lat); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
    arXiv:
    1606.03287 [pdf]
    PRD(2016)·26 citations

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