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We present a simple new approach to the treatment of Coulomb-nuclear interference and form-factor effects in high-energy proton-proton scattering in the context of eikonal models for the scattering amplitude. We show that the corrections to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-29 Loyal Durand , Phuoc Ha

A precise measurement of the analyzing power $A_N$ in proton-proton elastic scattering in the region of 4-momentum transfer squared $0.001 < |t| < 0.032 ({\rm GeV}/c)^2$ has been performed using a polarized atomic hydrogen gas jet target…

The analyzing power for proton-carbon elastic scattering in the coulomb-nuclear interference region of momentum transfer, $9.0\times10^{-3}<-t<4.1\times10^{-2}$ (GeV/$c)^{2}$, was measured with a 21.7 GeV/$c$ polarized proton beam at the…

Calculations are made of the $K^{+}+^{12}$C, $^{40}$Ca differential elastic scattering cross sections at the beam momenta 0.635, 0.715, and 0.8 GeV/c. To this end the microscopic optical potential derived in the high-energy approximation…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-01-16 V. K. Lukyanov , E. V. Zemlyanaya , K. V. Lukyanov , K. M. Hanna

We study exclusive $\pi^+ \pi^-$ pair production near $\rho^0$ resonance peak in ultraperipheral heavy ion collisions. Pion pair can either be produced via two photon fusion process or from the decay of $\rho^0$ in photon-nuclear reaction.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-28 Yoshikazu Hagiwara , Cheng Zhang , Jian Zhou , Ya-jin Zhou

We study the dynamics of charged pions in the nuclear medium via the ratio of differential $\pi^-$- and $\pi^+$-spectra in a coupled-channel BUU (CBUU) approach. The relative energy shift of the charged pions is found to correlate with the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 S. Teis , W. Cassing , M. Effenberger , A. Hombach , U. Mosel , Gy. Wolf

The analysis of RHIC hydrogen gas jet target polarimeter measurements of transverse analyzing powers $A_\text{N}(t)$ in proton-nucleus scattering requires accurate Coulomb corrections to both spin-flip and non-flip amplitudes. These…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-18 Andrei Poblaguev

The recently reported data on the yield ratio $\pi^-/\pi^+$ in central rapidity region of heavy-ion collisions are analyzed by theoretical formula which accounts for Coulomb interaction between central charged fragment (CCF) consisting of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 T. Osada , S. Sano , M. Biyajima , G. Wilk

Elastic cross sections are calculated and compared with the data on $\pi^{\pm}$ scattering on $^{28}$Si, $^{40}$Ca, $^{58}$Ni, $^{208}$Pb nuclei in the energy range from 130 to 290 MeV. To this end, both the folding optical potential (OP)…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-04-02 V. K. Lukyanov , E. V. Zemlyanaya , K. V. Lukyanov , I. Abdul-Magead

We present a bound on the imaginary part of the single helicity-flip amplitude for spin 1/2-spin 1/2 scattering at small momentum transfer. The variational method of Lagrange multipliers is employed to optimize the single-flip amplitude…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 A. T. Bates , N. H. Buttimore

We compute the Coulomb distortion produced by an expanding and highly charged fireball on the spectra of low transverse momenta and mid rapidity pions produced in central high energy heavy ion collisions. We compare to data on Au+Au at…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Alejandro Ayala , Sangyong Jeon , Joseph Kapusta

We find exact solution in the Cahn eikonal model, which describes Coulomb-nuclear interference in elastic scattering of charged hadrons. The cases of both point-like and extended particles equipped with electromagnetic form factors are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-06 M. L. Nekrasov

The integrated cross sections of high-energy $e^+e^-$ electroproduction by an electron in an atomic field is studied. Importance of various contributions to these cross sections is discussed. It is shown that the Coulomb corrections are…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-01-28 P. A. Krachkov , A. I. Milstein

Using recent high-statistics STAR data from Au+Au and Cu+Cu collisions at full RHIC energy I discuss strong and Coulomb-induced final state interaction effects on identical ($\pi-\pi$) and non-identical ($\pi-\Xi$) particle correlations.…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2011-08-04 M. Sumbera

We consider the differential cross section of electron-positron pair production by a high-energy photon in a strong Coulomb field close to the end of the electron or positron spectrum. When the momentum transfer largely exceeds the electron…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 A. Di Piazza , A. I. Milstein

Experimental studies of hypernuclear dynamics, besides being essential for the understanding of strong interactions in the strange sector, have important astrophysical implications. The observation of neutron stars with masses exceeding two…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-09-02 Omar Benhar

Using a simple eikonal approach to the treatment of Coulomb-nuclear interference and form-factors effects and taking into account the curvature effects in high-energy $pp$ and $\bar{p}p$ scattering, we determine the basic parameters $B$,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-24 Phuoc Ha

The electromagnetic (e.m.) current conservation and renormalizability of QCD are used to calculate the amplitude of energetic hadron(photon) diffraction into several jets with large relative transverse momenta off the nucleon(nucleus)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 L. Frankfurt , M. Strikman

We investigate theoretical approaches to pion--nucleus elastic scattering at high energies (300 $\le T_\pi \le$ 1 GeV). A ``model--exact'' calculation of the lowest--order microscopic optical model, carried out in momentum space and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 C. M. Chen , D. J. Ernst , M. B. Johnson

A technique to deal with Coulomb electron distortions in the analysis of (e,e'p) reactions is presented. Thereby, no approximations are made. The suggested technique relies on a partial-wave expansion of the electron wave functions and a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 V. Van der Sluys , K. Heyde , J. Ryckebusch , M. Waroquier