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Publications (42)

astro-ph.HE2024

Fully Relativistic Derivation of the Thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect

Balša Terzić, Geoffrey A. Krafft, William Clark +3

We present the first fully and inherently relativistic derivation of the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect. This work uses the formalism historically used to compute radiation spec…

hep-ph2020

Unified Description of Polarized and Unpolarized Quark Distributions in the Proton

Tianbo Liu, Raza Sabbir Sufian, Guy F. de Téramond +3

We propose a unified new approach to describe polarized and unpolarized quark distributions in the proton based on the gauge-gravity correspondence, light-front holography, and the…

astro-ph.GA2022

New Analysis of Dark Matter in Elliptical Galaxies

David Winters, Alexandre Deur, Xiaochao Zheng

We investigate a correlation between the dark matter content of elliptical galaxies and their ellipticity that was initially reported in 2014. We use new determinations of dark mat…

hep-ph2022

Towards a single scale-dependent Pomeron in holographic light-front QCD

Hans Günter Dosch, Guy F. de Téramond, Tianbo Liu +3

The Pomeron Regge trajectory underlies the dynamics dependence of hadronic total cross sections and diffractive reactions at high energies. The physics of the Pomeron is closely re…

hep-ph2017

Implications of the Principle of Maximum Conformality for the QCD Strong Coupling

Alexandre Deur, Jian-Ming Shen, Xing-Gang Wu +2

The Principle of Maximum Conformality (PMC) provides scale-fixed perturbative QCD predictions which are independent of the choice of the renormalization scheme, as well as the choi…

nucl-th2022

Single-pion contribution to the Gerasimov--Drell--Hearn sum rule and related integrals

Igor Strakovsky, Simon Å irca, William J. Briscoe +3

Phenomenological amplitudes obtained in partial-wave analyses (PWA) of single-pion photoproduction are used to evaluate the contribution of this process to the Gerasimov-Drell-Hear…

nucl-ex2024

New Spin Structure Constraints on Hyperfine Splitting and Proton Size

David Ruth, Karl Slifer, Jian-Ping Chen +9

The 1S hyperfine splitting in hydrogen is measured to an impressive ppt precision and will soon be measured to ppm precision in muonic hydrogen. The latter measurement will rely on…

nucl-ex2018

Nucleon spin structure measurements at Jefferson Lab

Alexandre Deur

We summarize the measurements investigating the nucleon spin structure done at Jefferson Lab, a multi-GeV continuous electron beam facility located in Newport News, Virgina, USA. A…

hep-ph2025

Asymptotic gauge symmetry and UV extension of the nonperturbative coupling in holographic QCD

Guy F. de Teramond, Arpon Paul, Hans Gunter Dosch +4

We extend our recent analytic study of the strong coupling in the nonperturbative and near-perturbative regimes~\cite{deTeramond:2024ikl} by imposing rigorous renorm…

hep-ph2019

Hadron and Nuclear Physics on the Light Front

Stanley J. Brodsky, Alexandre Deur

The QCD light-front (LF) Hamiltonian equation H_{LF}|Ψ> = M^2 |Ψ> derived from quantization at fixed LF time τ= t+z/c provides a causal, frame-independent, method for computing…

hep-ph2014

The Light-Front Schrödinger Equation and Determination of the Perturbative QCD Scale from Color Confinement

Stanley J. Brodsky, Guy F. de Téramond, Alexandre Deur +1

The valence Fock-state wavefunctions of the light-front QCD Hamiltonian satisfy a relativistic equation of motion with an effective confining potential which systematically inc…

nucl-ex2012

Measurement of the generalized form factors near threshold via $γ^* p \to nπ^+$ at high

Kijun Park, Ralf Gothe, Krishna Adhikari +144

We report the first extraction of the pion-nucleon multipoles near the production threshold for the channel at relatively high momentum transfer ( up to 4.2 $\rm{GeV^2…

physics.gen-ph2026

Poincaré invariance and the Unruh effect

Alexandre Deur, Stanley J. Brodsky, Craig D. Roberts +1

In quantum field theory, the vacuum is popularly considered to be a complex medium populated with virtual particle + antiparticle pairs. To an observer experiencing uniform acceler…

hep-ph2018

The QCD running coupling at all scales and the connection between hadron masses and Λ_s

Alexandre Deur

We report on recent experimental and theoretical developments in our understanding of the QCD running coupling α_s in QCD's nonperturbative regime. They allow us to analytically c…

hep-ph2018

Nonperturbative strange-quark sea from lattice QCD, light-front holography, and meson-baryon fluctuation models

Raza Sabbir Sufian, Tianbo Liu, Guy F. de Téramond +5

We demonstrate that a nonzero strangeness contribution to the spacelike electromagnetic form factor of the nucleon is evidence for a strange-antistrange asymmetry in the nucleon's…

hep-ph2010

AdS/QCD, Light-Front Holography, and the Nonperturbative Running Coupling

Stanley J. Brodsky, Guy F. de Teramond, Alexandre Deur

The combination of Anti-de Sitter space (AdS) methods with light-front (LF) holography provides a remarkably accurate first approximation for the spectra and wavefunctions of meson…

hep-ph2018

Universality of Generalized Parton Distributions in Light-Front Holographic QCD

Guy F. de Teramond, Tianbo Liu, Raza Sabbir Sufian +3

The structure of generalized parton distributions is determined from light-front holographic QCD up to a universal reparametrization function which incorporates Regge behavi…

nucl-ex2009

Single-nucleon experiments

Alexandre Deur

We discuss the Jefferson Lab low momentum transfer data on moments of the nucleon spin structure functions and and on single charged pion electroproduction off polarize…

hep-ph2022

50 Years of Quantum Chromodynamics

Franz Gross, Eberhard Klempt, Stanley J. Brodsky +92

This paper presents a comprehensive review of both the theory and experimental successes of Quantum Chromodynamics, starting with its emergence as a well defined theory in 1972-73…

hep-ph2024

The strong coupling in the nonperturbative and near-perturbative regimes

Guy F. de Teramond, Arpon Paul, Stanley J. Brodsky +4

We use analytic continuation to extend the gauge/gravity duality nonperturbative description of the strong force coupling into the transition, near-perturbative, regime where pertu…

hep-ph2015

Connecting the Hadron Mass Scale to the Fundamental Mass Scale of Quantum Chromodynamics

Alexandre Deur, Stanley J. Brodsky, Guy F. de Teramond

Establishing an explicit connection between the long distance physics of confinement and the dynamical interactions of quarks and gluons at short distances has been a long-sought g…

nucl-ex2018

Determination of the Proton Spin Structure Functions for 0.05 < Q^2 < 5 GeV^2 using CLAS

Robert Fersch, Nevzat Guler, Peter Bosted +7

We present the results of our final analysis of the full data set of g_1^p(Q^2), the spin structure function of the proton, collected using CLAS at Jefferson Lab in 2000-2001. Pola…

hep-ph2016

Superconformal Algebraic Approach to Hadron Structure

Guy F. de Teramond, Stanley J. Brodsky, Alexandre Deur +2

Fundamental aspects of nonperturbative QCD dynamics which are not obvious from its classical Lagrangian, such as the emergence of a mass scale and confinement, the existence of a z…

hep-ph2021

Gluon matter distribution in the proton and pion from extended holographic light-front QCD

Guy F. de Téramond, H. G. Dosch, Tianbo Liu +3

The holographic light-front QCD framework provides a unified nonperturbative description of the hadron mass spectrum, form factors and quark distributions. In this article we exten…

physics.gen-ph2021

Effect of gravitational field self-interaction on large structure formation

Alexandre Deur

We check whether General Relativity's field self-interaction alleviates the need for dark matter to explain the universe's large structure formation. We found that self-interaction…

hep-ph2010

The AdS/QCD Correspondence and Exclusive Processes

Stanley J. Brodsky, Guy F. de Téramond, Alexandre Deur

The AdS/CFT correspondence between theories in AdS space and conformal field theories in physical space-time provides an analytic, semi-classical, color-confining model for strongl…

astro-ph.CO2023

Hubble Tension and Gravitational Self-Interaction

Corey Sargent, Alexandre Deur, Balsa Terzic

One of the most important problems vexing the CDM cosmological model is the Hubble tension. It arises from the fact that measurements of the present value of the Hubble paramet…

nucl-ex2025

High precision measurement of phi-nucleon cross section using a tensor polarized deuteron target

Mark M. Dalton, Alexandre Deur, Chris D. Keith +2

We propose to measure the -nucleon cross section to solve the longstanding puzzle of whether mb, as extracted from photoproduction, or 30…

gr-qc2025

On the Evidence for Violation of the Equivalence Principle in Disk Galaxies

Corey Sargent, William Clark, Antonia Seifert +5

We examine the claimed observations of a gravitational external field effect (EFE) reported in Chae et al. We show that observations suggestive of the EFE can be interpreted withou…

hep-ex2022

The Heavy Photon Search Experiment

Nathan Baltzell, Marco Battaglieri, Mariangela Bondi +59

The Heavy Photon Search (HPS) experiment is designed to search for a new vector boson in the mass range of 20 MeV/ to 220 MeV/ that kinetically mixes with the…

astro-ph.GA2021

Relativistic corrections to the rotation curves of disk galaxies

Alexandre Deur

We present a method to investigate relativistic effects arising from large masses. The method is non-perturbative and employs a mean-field approximation and gravitational lensing.…

hep-ph2007

Effect of Orbital Angular Momentum on Valence-Quark Helicity Distributions

Harut Avakian, Stanley J. Brodsky, Alexandre Deur +1

We study the quark helicity distributions at large x in perturbative QCD, taking into account contributions from the valence Fock states of the nucleon which have nonzero orbital a…

nucl-ex2025

Potential for Tensor Polarized Deuterons in Hall D at Jefferson Lab

Mark M. Dalton, Alexandre Deur, Chris Keith

Hall D at Jefferson lab is an ideal place to install a polarized deuteron target which can be ''tensor polarized", allowing the separation of the spin states or the meas…

nucl-ex2022

Results on spin sum rules and polarizabilities at low

Alexandre Deur

We report on recently published experimental results on spin sum rules, and particularly on the generalized spin polarizabilities (for both the proton and neutron) and…

astro-ph.GA2014

A correlation between the amount of dark matter in elliptical galaxies and their shape

Alexandre Deur

We discuss the correlation between the dark matter content of elliptical galaxies and their ellipticities. We then explore a mechanism for which the correlation would emerge natura…

astro-ph.GA2020

Significance of Gravitational Nonlinearities on the Dynamics of Disk Galaxies

Alexandre Deur, Corey Sargent, Balša Terzić

The discrepancy between the visible mass in galaxies or galaxy clusters, and that inferred from their dynamics is well known. The prevailing solution to this problem is dark matter…

nucl-ex2021

Strange Hadron Spectroscopy with Secondary KL Beam in Hall D

KLF Collaboration, Moskov Amaryan, Mikhail Bashkanov +150

We propose to create a secondary beam of neutral kaons in Hall D at Jefferson Lab to be used with the GlueX experimental setup for strange hadron spectroscopy. The superior CEBAF e…

astro-ph.GA2014

A relation between the dark mass of elliptical galaxies and their shape

Alexandre Deur

We have studied a large number of elliptical galaxies and found a correlation between their dark matter content and the ellipticity of their visible shape. The galaxies were strict…

physics.ins-det2015

The Heavy Photon Search Test Detector

Marco Battaglieri, Sergey Boyarinov, Stephen Bueltmann +61

The Heavy Photon Search (HPS), an experiment to search for a hidden sector photon in fixed target electroproduction, is preparing for installation at the Thomas Jefferson National…

hep-ph2010

Nonperturbative QCD Coupling and its function from Light-Front Holography

Stanley J. Brodsky, Guy F. de Téramond, Alexandre Deur

The light-front holographic mapping of classical gravity in AdS space, modified by a positive-sign dilaton background, leads to a nonperturbative effective coupling $α_s^{AdS}(Q^2…

nucl-ex2014

Clean measurements of the nucleon axial-vector and free-neutron magnetic form factors

Alexandre Deur

We discuss the feasibility of a weak charged current experiment using a low energy electron beam. A first goal is to measure the Q^2 dependence of the axial-vector form factor g_a(…

hep-ph2017

Analysis of nucleon electromagnetic form factors from light-front holographic QCD : The spacelike region

Raza Sabbir Sufian, Guy F. de Téramond, Stanley J. Brodsky +2

We present a comprehensive analysis of the spacelike nucleon electromagnetic form factors and their flavor decomposition within the framework of light-front holographic QCD. We sho…