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hep-ph2013★ 1 cited

The initial stages of heavy-ion collisions in the Color Glass Condensate framework

Francois Gelis

In this short review, we present the description of the early stages of a heavy ion collision at high energy in the Color Glass Condensate framework.

hep-ph2013★ 72 cited

Probing new physics in diphoton production with proton tagging at the Large Hadron Collider

S. Fichet, G. von Gersdorff, O. Kepka +3

The sensitivities to anomalous quartic photon couplings at the Large Hadron Collider are estimated using diphoton production via photon fusion. The tagging of the protons proves to…

hep-ph2013★ 82 cited

PPPC 4 DM: A Poor Particle Physicist Cookbook for Neutrinos from DM annihilations in the Sun

Pietro Baratella, Marco Cirelli, Andi Hektor +3

We provide ingredients and recipes for computing neutrino signals of TeV-scale Dark Matter annihilations in the Sun. For each annihilation channel and DM mass we present the energy…

hep-ph2013★ 75 cited

Constraints on particle dark matter from cosmic-ray antiprotons

N. Fornengo, L. Maccione, A. Vittino

Cosmic-ray antiprotons represent an important channel for dark matter indirect-detection studies. Current measurements of the antiproton flux at the top of the atmosphere and theor…

hep-ph2013★ 4 cited

The Vincia Parton Shower

Walter T. Giele, Lisa Hartgring, David A. Kosower +5

We summarize recent developments in the VINCIA parton shower. After a brief review of the basics of the formalism, the extension of VINCIA to hadron collisions is sketched. We then…

hep-ph2013★ 241 cited

Tools for model-independent bounds in direct dark matter searches

Eugenio Del Nobile, Marco Cirelli, Paolo Panci

We discuss a framework (based on non-relativistic operators) and a self-contained set of numerical tools to derive the bounds from some current direct detection experiments on virt…

hep-ph2013★ 207 cited

Pressure isotropization in high energy heavy ion collisions

Thomas Epelbaum, Francois Gelis

The early stages of high energy heavy ion collisions are studied in the Color Glass Condensate framework, with a real-time classical lattice simulation. When increasing the couplin…

hep-ph2013★ 20 cited

Probing the Pomeron structure using dijets and +jet events at the LHC

C. Marquet, C. Royon, M. Saimpert +1

We consider hard diffractive events in proton-proton collisions at the LHC, in which both protons escape the collision intact. In such double Pomeron exchange processes, we propose…

hep-ph2013

Inclusive diffraction at HERA

Laurent Schoeffel

A new experimental analysis of the diffractive process , where denotes a proton or its low mass excitation with GeV, has been performed with the H…

hep-ph2013★ 51 cited

MCPLOTS: a particle physics resource based on volunteer computing

A. Karneyeu, L. Mijovic, S. Prestel +1

The mcplots.cern.ch web site (MCPLOTS) provides a simple online repository of plots made with high-energy-physics event generators, comparing them to a wide variety of experimental…

hep-ph2013★ 3 cited

Forward physics with proton tagging at the LHC

Christophe Royon

We present some inclusive and exclusive diffractive processes to be studied at the LHC, namely QCD, quartic anomalous couplings between and bosons and diffractive Higgs p…

hep-ph2013★ 85 cited

Gluon Transport Equation in the Small Angle Approximation and the Onset of Bose-Einstein Condensation

Jean-Paul Blaizot, Jinfeng Liao, Larry McLerran

In this paper, we study the evolution of a dense system of gluons, such as those produced in the early stages of ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions. We describe the approach t…

hep-ph2013★ 36 cited

Higgsogenesis

Geraldine Servant, Sean Tulin

In addition to explaining the masses of elementary particles, the Higgs boson may have far-reaching implications for the generation of the matter content in the Universe. For insta…

hep-ph2013★ 130 cited

Next-to-Leading Order W + 5-Jet Production at the LHC

Z. Bern, L. J. Dixon, F. Febres Cordero +5

We present next-to-leading order QCD predictions for the total cross section and for a comprehensive set of transverse-momentum distributions in W + 5-jet production at the Large H…

hep-ph2013★ 12 cited

Ultrasoft fermion mode and off-diagonal Boltzmann equation in quark-gluon plasma at high temperature

Daisuke Satow

We derive the generalized Boltzmann equation (GBE) near equilibrium from the Kadanoff-Baym equation for quark excitation with ultrasoft momentum (~g^2T, g: coupling constant, T: te…

hep-ph2013★ 12 cited

Burgers-like equation for spontaneous breakdown of the chiral symmetry in QCD

Jean-Paul Blaizot, Maciej A. Nowak, Piotr Warchoł

We link the spontaneous breakdown of chiral symmetry in Euclidean QCD to the collision of spectral shock waves in the vicinity of zero eigenvalue of Dirac operator. The mechanism,…

hep-ph2013★ 125 cited

Scale-invariant resonance tagging in multijet events and new physics in Higgs pair production

Maxime Gouzevitch, Alexandra Oliveira, Juan Rojo +3

We study resonant pair production of heavy particles in fully hadronic final states by means of jet substructure techniques. We propose a new resonance tagging strategy that smooth…

hep-ph2013★ 218 cited

Generalized Parton Distributions in the valence region from Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering

Michel Guidal, Herve Moutarde, Marc Vanderhaeghen

This work reviews the recent developments in the field of Generalized Parton Distributions (GPDs) and Deeply virtual Compton scattering in the valence region, which aim at extracti…

hep-ph2013★ 499 cited

Sterile Neutrino Oscillations: The Global Picture

Joachim Kopp, Pedro A. N. Machado, Michele Maltoni +1

Neutrino oscillations involving eV-scale neutrino mass states are investigated in the context of global neutrino oscillation data including short and long-baseline accelerator, rea…

hep-ph2013★ 7 cited

Neutrino Mass Matrix Textures: A Data-driven Approach

E. Bertuzzo, P. A. N. Machado, R. Zukanovich Funchal

We analyze the neutrino mass matrix entries and their correlations in a probabilistic fashion, constructing probability distribution functions using the latest results from neutrin…

hep-ph2013★ 198 cited

Jet physics in heavy-ion collisions

Y. Mehtar-Tani, J. G. Milhano, K. Tywoniuk

Jets are expected to play a prominent role in the ongoing efforts to characterize the hot and dense QCD medium created in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions. The success of thi…

hep-ph2013★ 172 cited

Predictions for Pb Collisions at sqrt s_NN = 5 TeV

J. L. Albacete, N. Armesto, R. Baier +38

Predictions for charged hadron, identified light hadron, quarkonium, photon, jet and gauge bosons in p+Pb collisions at sqrt s_NN = 5 TeV are compiled and compared. When test run d…

hep-ph2013★ 78 cited

On timelike and spacelike deeply virtual Compton scattering at next to leading order

H. Moutarde, B. Pire, F. Sabatie +2

We study timelike and spacelike virtual Compton scattering in the generalized Bjorken scaling regime at next to leading order in the strong coupling constant, in the medium energy…

hep-ph2013★ 13 cited

A QCD description of the ATLAS jet veto measurement

Y. Hatta, C. Marquet, C. Royon +3

We present a new QCD description of the ATLAS jet veto measurement, using the Banfi-Marchesini-Smye equation to constrain the inter-jet QCD radiation. This equation resums emission…