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We analyse how the reaction gamma p -> gamma + jet + X can serve to constrain the gluon distributions. Our results are based on a code of partonic event generator type which includes full NLO corrections. We conclude that there are phase…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Fontannaz , G. Heinrich

We report the first mass measurement of the proton-halo candidate $^{22}$Al performed with the LEBIT facility's 9.4~T Penning trap mass spectrometer at FRIB. This measurement completes the mass information for the lightest remaining…

Short-pulse, ultra high-intensity lasers have opened new regimes for studying fusion plasmas and creating novel ultra-short ion beams and neutron sources. Diagnosing the plasma in these experiments is important for optimizing the fusion…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-07-14 B. M. Hegelich , L. Labun , O. Z. Labun , T. A. Mehlhorn

The strong electromagnetic fields carried by relativistic highly charged ions make heavy-ion colliders attractive places to study photonuclear interactions and two-photon interactions. At RHIC, three experiments have studied coherent…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-10-21 Spencer R. Klein

The photon induced reactions which are named as photonuclear reactions have a great importance in many field of nuclear, radiation physics and related fields. Since we have planned to perform photonuclear reaction on gallium target with…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-06-22 Serkan Akkoyun , Tuncay Bayram

The Common Muon Proton Apparatus for Structure and Spectroscopy (COMPASS) at CERN with its use of beams of naturally polarized muons scattered of a polarized deuteron target, provides an environment of hard scattering between quasi-real…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Astrid Morréale

We examine carefully bottomonia hadroproduction in proton colliders, especially focusing on the LHC, as a way of probing the gluon density in protons. To this end we develop some previous work, getting quantitative predictions and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 J. L. Domenech-Garret , M. A. Sanchis-Lozano , S. Wolf

Photoproduction of neutral and charged pions off nucleons and deuterium has been precisely calculated in baryon chiral perturbation theory. I review the predictions with the accurate data that have become available over the last few years.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-30 Véronique Bernard

Recently a new observable to study halo nuclei was introduced, based on the ratio between breakup and elastic angular cross sections. This new observable is shown by the analysis of specific reactions to be independent of the reaction…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 P. Capel , R. C. Johnson , F. M. Nunes

The study of baryon resonances via meson photoproduction reactions on the free proton and on nucleons in the nuclear medium is discussed. Special emphasis is laid on the production of neutral mesons which due to the suppression of…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Krusche

The neutral pion photoproduction on the proton near threshold has a very small scattering cross section when compared to the charged channels, which in ChPT is explained by strong cancellations between the lowest order pieces. Therefore it…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-22 Astrid Hiller Blin , Manuel Vicente Vacas , Tim Ledwig

We present an overview of the GW SAID group effort to analyze on new pion photoproduction on both proton- and neutron-targets. The main database contribution came from the recent CLAS and MAMI unpolarized and polarized measurements. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-18 Igor Strakovsky , William Briscoe , Alexander Kudryavtsev , Vladimir Tarasov , Ron Workman

A recently developed model for $\rho$-meson propagation in dense hadronic matter is applied to total photoabsorption cross sections in $\gamma$-proton and $\gamma$-nucleus reactions. Within the vector dominance model the photon coupling to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 R. Rapp , M. Urban , M. Buballa , J. Wambach

Light radioactive nuclei play an important role in many astrophysical environments. Due to very low cross sections of some neutron and proton capture reactions by these radioactive nuclei at energies of astrophysical interest, direct…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 V. Guimaraes , C. A. Bertulani

A first measurement is presented of exclusive photoproduction of $\rho^0$ mesons associated with leading neutrons at HERA. The data were taken with the H1 detector in the years 2006 and 2007 at a centre-of-mass energy of 319 GeV and…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-07-12 S. Levonian

Heavy quarks are copiously produced in two-photon collisions at $e^+e^-$ colliders. The theoretical predictions including QCD radiative corrections are compared to recent experimental data on $\gamma\gamma$ production of charm quarks at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael Krämer

Multiple polarization observables must be measured to access the amplitude structure of pseudoscalar meson photoproduction off the proton. The hyperon-producing reactions are especially attractive to study, since the weak decays allow…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 Reinhard Schumacher

Thirteen targets with mass numbers from 58 to 238 were irradiated with the antiproton beam from the Low Energy Antiproton Ring facility at CERN leading to the formation of antiprotonic atoms of these heavy elements. The antiproton capture…

A population of unidentified gamma-ray sources is forming a structure resembling a halo around the Galactic center. These sources are highly variable, and hence they should be associated with compact objects. Microquasars are objects…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-07-02 Gustavo E. Romero , Gabriela S. Vila

Strangeness photoproduction in the elementary reactions $\gamma N\rightarrow KY$ offers the possibility to study nucleon resonances in the mass region above 1.7 GeV, where the number of states and their properties are still under debate.…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2016-06-22 Dominik Werthmüller