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Total and reaction cross sections are derived self consistently from the attenuation cross sections measured in transmission experiments at the AGS for K^+ on Li^6, C, Si and Ca in the momentum range of 500-700 MeV/c by using a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 E. Friedman , A. Gal , J. Mares

We investigate the modification induced on the nucleon-nucleon cross section by screening of the interaction inside nuclear matter. The interaction is described by the relativistic one boson exchange of $\sigma$, $\omega$ and $\pi$ mesons.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 J. Diaz Alonso , L. Mornas

We calculate, in the Glauber-Mueller approach, the ratio of the diffractive dissociation cross section to the total cross section on nuclei. We observe that shadowing corrections (SC) are significant, in the calculated $\ddt$ ratio but they…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 E. Gotsman , E. Levin , M. Lublinsky , U. Maor , K. Tuchin

We study the impact of nuclear effects on the extraction of the weak-mixing angle $\sin^2\theta_W$ from deep inelastic (anti-)neutrino-nucleus scattering, with special emphasis on the recently announced NuTeV Collaboration 3$\sigma$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Sergey Kovalenko , Ivan Schmidt , Jian-Jun Yang

In-medium effects in photon excitation of the S$_{11}$ resonance from nucleon and its decay to $\eta$-meson using the RMF approach is studied. We examine the in-medium effects by varing the Dirac fields of the nucleon and the S$_{11}$…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Tomoyuki Maruyama , Satoshi Chiba

We calculate $K^-$-nucleus elastic differential, reaction and total cross sections for different nuclei ($^{12}$C,$^{40}$Ca and $^{208}$Pb) at several laboratory antikaon momenta, ranging from 127 MeV to 800 MeV. We use different…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 C. Garcia-Recio , A. J. Melgarejo , J. Nieves

Cross section ratios for deep-inelastic scattering from $^3$He, $^{14}$N and $^{84}$Kr with respect to $^2$H have been measured by the HERMES collaboration at DESY using a 27.5 GeV positron beam. The data cover a range in the Bjorken…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-08-31 HERMES Collaboration , A. Airapetian

A simple statistical model in terms of light-front kinematic variables is used to explain the nuclear EMC effect in the range $x \in [0.2,~0.7]$, which was constructed by us previously to calculate the parton distribution functions (PDFs)…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-11-02 Yunhua Zhang , Lijing Shao , Bo-Qiang Ma

The Chiral Quark-Soliton model provides the quark and antiquark substructure of the nucleon, which is embedded in nuclear matter. This provides a new way to asses the effects of the nuclear medium on the nucleon. We calculate nuclear…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-09-29 Jason R. Smith

It is known that the decay process \eta\rightarrow\pi^0\pi^+\pi^- in free space is possible due to the isospin-symmetry breaking in Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), i.e., the small mass difference between u and d quarks: The small width is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-01-30 Shuntaro Sakai , Teiji Kunihiro

Production cross sections of K$^+$ and K$^-$ mesons have been measured in C+C collisions at beam energies per nucleon below and near the nucleon-nucleon threshold. At a given beam energy, the spectral slopes of the K$^-$ mesons are…

We use the Dirac equation to study the mass spectrum of mesons with heavy-light quark combinations. First we study the Dirac equation with spherically symmetry and funnel potential, and apply them on the hydrogen-like atom problem to check…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-11-24 B. Pan

The isospin splitting of the in-medium $NN\rightarrow N\Delta$ cross sections in asymmetric nuclear medium are investigated in the framework of the one-boson exchange model by including $\delta$ and $\rho$ mesons. Our results show that the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-10-12 Ying Cui , Yingxun Zhang , Yuan Tian , Zhuxia Li

Mass shifts $\Delta m$ of particles in nuclear matter relative to their vacuum values are considered. A general formula relating $\Delta m(E)$ ($E$ is the particle energy) to the real part of the forward particle-nucleon scattering…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 V. L. Eletsky , B. L. Ioffe

We have measured invariant mass spectra of electron-positron pairs in the target rapidity region of 12GeV p+A reactions. We have observed a significant difference in the mass spectra below the $\omega$ meson between p+C and p+Cu…

Within the relativistic Hartree approach using a Lagrangian with density-dependent parameters respecting the chiral limit, it is found that the vacuum corrections from the nucleon Dirac sea soften the equation of state and favor the chiral…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-02-12 Wei-Zhou Jiang , Bao-An Li

The properties of strange mesons ($K$, $\bar K$ and $\bar K^*$) in dense matter are studied using a unitary approach in coupled channels for meson-baryon scattering. The kaon-nucleon interaction incorporates $s$- and $p$-wave contributions…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-03-10 L. Tolos , D. Cabrera , R. Molina , E. Oset , A. Ramos

The K^+ scattering on the lightest nuclei, d, 3He and 4He is studied in the framework of multiple scattering theory. Effects from MEC tied to the K^+N-->KNpi reaction are evaluated. We found that at momentum transfers Q^2<0.5 (GeV/c)^2…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 S. S. Kamalov , J. A. Oller , E. Oset , M. J. Vicente-Vacas

Using a recent parametrization of nuclear effects in parton distribution functions we calculate the neutrino-nucleon cross section at energies relevant for ultra high energy neutrino telescopes. The modification of the cross section in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 J. A. Castro Pena , G. Parente , E. Zas

This erratum revokes the main conclusion of a Letter that reported measurements of cross sections for deep-inelastic scattering (DIS) of leptons on $^3$He and $^{14}$N targets, expressed as ratios of $\sigma_A / \sigma_D$ to the cross…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-04-15 HERMES Collaboration , A. Airapetian