Using branching processes in nuclei to reveal dynamics of large-angle, two-body scattering

2009/09/30 by S. Kumano, M. Strikman · 9 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Branching (polymer chemistry) #Classical mechanics #Computational physics #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Materials science #Optics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Physics #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Scattering #Statistical physics #Transverse plane #hep-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2009.12.030

published in Physics Letters B 683(4-5), 259-263 (Elsevier BV) · 13 pages, 6 figures, expanded version published in Physics Letters B

openalex publication_date 2009/12/22 · arxiv created 2009/12/25 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

We demonstrate that hard branching 2→ 3 particle processes with nuclei provide an effective way to determine the momentum transfers needed for effects of point-like configurations to dominate large angle 2→ 2 processes. In contrast with previously proposed approaches, the discussed reaction allows the effects of the transverse size of configurations to be decoupled from effects of the space-time evolution of these configurations.

Citations

• Review of Particle Physics
• Using nuclei to probe hadronization in QCD
• Proceedings of the 38th International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics (ISMD08)
• Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (in "The Review of Particle Properties" 2004)

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