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The production and propagation of mesons ($\pi, \eta, \rho, \omega, \Phi, K, \bar{K}, J/\Psi$) in proton-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus collisions from 1 - 200 GeV/u is studied within the covariant transport approach HSD, which explicitly…
Two pentaquarks $P_{c}^{+}$ were discovered by LHCb collaboration as peaks in the proton-$J/\psi$ invariant mass. We perform the lattice QCD study of the scattering between $J/\psi$ meson and nucleon in the channels with…
Four-body equations in momentum space are solved for neutron-$\He$, proton-$\Hh$, and deuteron-deuteron scattering; all three reactions are coupled. The Coulomb interaction between the protons is included using the screening and…
Nuclear interactions play a key role for the stability of atomic nuclei and stellar environments. Successful parametrization and models of these interactions, developed in the last decades, accurately reproduce all the proton and neutron…
In a recent experiment by Schaetz group \cite{weckesser2021}, the quantum $s$-wave regime has been attained for alkali and alkaline-earth atom-ion combination (Li-Ba$^+$). We investigate possible outcomes from interaction of this ion-atom…
With nonrelativistic QCD factorization, we calculate the $\Upsilon(1S)$ prompt production at hadron colliders at next-to-leading order in $\alpha_s$. In addition to the color-singlet contribution, color-octet channels (especially the P-wave…
General formulas for calculating the several leading long-range interactions among three identical atoms where two atoms are in identical $S$ states and the other atom is in a $P$ state are obtained using perturbation theory for the…
Neutron rich He nuclei have been investigated using relativistic mean field approach in co-ordinate space. Elastic partial scattering cross sections for proton scattering in inverse kinematics have been calculated using the theoretically…
Cross sections for the concurrent production of pairs of quarkonia (J/psi, Upsilon) and/or gauge bosons (W, Z) from double-parton scatterings (DPS) in high-energy proton-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus collisions at the LHC are calculated. The…
We estimate differential rapidity cross sections for $J/\Psi$ and $\Upsilon(1S)$ production via Cu-Cu and Au-Au collisions at RHIC, and the relative probabilities of $\Psi'(2S)$ to $J/\Psi$ production via p-p collisions using our recent…
Continuing previous work, we have measured the projectile scattering-angle dependency for transfer excitation of fast protons (300-1200 keV/u) colliding with helium (p+He $\rightarrow$ H + He$^{+ *}$). Our high-resolution fully differential…
Double parton scattering (DPS) is studied at the example of $J/\psi$ pair-production in the LHCb and ATLAS experiments of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at centre-of-mass energies of $\sqrt{S}=$ 7, 8, and 13 TeV. We report theoretical…
We propose a new parton model and demonstrate that the model describes the relevant experimental data at high energies. The model is based on Pomeron calculus in 1+1 space-time dimensions, as suggested in Ref. [18] and on simple assumptions…
The vibrational quenching cross sections and corresponding low-temperature rate constants for the v = 1 and v = 2 states of CN- colliding with He and Ar atoms have been computed ab initio using new three dimensional potential energy…
$J/\psi$ and $\psi'$ production cross sections in fixed-target experiment is calculated, considering the contributions from both color-singlet and color-octet mechanisms.The results are applied to the investigations of the $J/\psi$…
Shape resonances in H$_2$, produced as reaction intermediates in the photolysis of H$_2$S precursor molecules, are measured in a half-collision approach. Before desintegrating into two ground state H atoms, the reaction is quenched by…
State-selected total cross sections and thermal rate coefficients are computed for the HD + $ortho$-/$para$-H$_2$ rotational energy transfer collision at low temperatures: 2 K $\lesssim$ T $\lesssim$ 300 K. A modified H$_2$-H$_2$ potential…
The $s-$wave meson-baryon scattering is analyzed for the strangeness $S=-1$ and isospin I=0 sector in a Bethe-Salpeter coupled channel formalism incorporating Chiral Symmetry. Four channels have been considered: $\pi \Sigma$, $\bar K N$,…
Using a quantum-mechanical close-coupling method, we calculate cross sections for fine structure excitation and relaxation of Si and S atoms in collisions with atomic hydrogen. Rate coefficients are calculated over a range of temperatures…