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hep-ph2011★ 55 cited

Dihadron momentum imbalance and correlations in d+Au collisions

Zhong-Bo Kang, Ivan Vitev, Hongxi Xing

We calculate in perturbative QCD the transverse momentum imbalance of dijet and dihadron production in high energy p+A (d+A) collisions. We evaluate the effect of both initial- and…

hep-ph2011★ 7 cited

Revisiting B_s\toμ^+μ^- and B\to K^{(*)}μ^+μ^- decays in the MSSM with and without R-parity

Ru-Min Wang, Yuan-Guo Xu, Yi-Long Wang +1

The rare decays B_s -> μ^+μ^- and B -> K^{(*)}μ^+μ^- are sensitive to new particles and couplings via their interferences with the standard model contributions. Recently, the upper…

hep-ph2011★ 17 cited

Anomalous coupling effects in rare B- and K-meson decays

Xin-Qiang Li, Ya-Dong Yang, Xing-Bo Yuan

As a top-factory, the LHC is performing a direct study of top-quark anomalous FCNC couplings, which are, however, correlated closely with the rare B- and K-meson decays. In this pa…

hep-ph2011★ 35 cited

Parton Energy Loss and Modified Beam Quark Distribution Functions in Drell-Yan Process in p+A Collisions

Hongxi Xing, Yun Guo, Enke Wang +1

Within the framework of generalized collinear factorization in perturbative QCD (pQCD), we study the effect of initial multiple parton scattering and induced parton energy loss in…

hep-ph2011★ 3 cited

The vacuum tunnelling and the crossover of deconfinement in Friedberg-Lee model

Song Shu, Jia-Rong Li

We have discussed the vacuum tunnelling in Friedberg-Lee model. The tunnelling coefficient is derived in the field configuration space by calculating the transition amplitude using…

hep-ph2011★ 16 cited

Cold Nuclear Matter Effects on Dijet Productions in Relativistic Heavy-ion Reactions at LHC

Yuncun He, Ben-Wei Zhang, Enke Wang

We investigate the cold nuclear matter(CNM) effects on dijet productions in high-energy nuclear collisions at LHC with the next-to-leading order perturbative QCD. The nuclear modif…

hep-ph2011

Expanding the thermodynamical potential and the analysis of the possible phase diagram of deconfinement in FL model

Song Shu, Jia-Rong Li

The deconfinement phase transition is studied in the FL model at finite temperature and chemical potential. At MFT approximation, the phase transition can only be the first order i…

hep-ph2011

Implications of the Anomalies in B_s^0-\bar{B}_s^0 Mixing for Anomalous Tensor Couplings

Qin Chang, Lin Han, Ya-Dong Yang

Motivated by the recently observed anomalous large dimuon charge asymmetry in neutral B decays and the unexpected large CP phase in the mixing-induced CP asymmetry for B_s-->J/ψϕde…

hep-ph2011★ 13 cited

Charmless Decays Based on the six-quark Effective Hamiltonian with Strong Phase Effects II

Fang Su, Yue-Liang Wu, Ci Zhuang +1

We provide a systematic study of charmless decays ( and denote pseudoscalar and vector mesons, respectively) based on an approximate six-quark operator…

hep-ph2011★ 7 cited

On QGP Formation in pp Collisions at 7 TeV

Fu-Ming Liu, Klaus Werner

The possibility of QGP formation in central pp collisions at ultra-high collision energy is discussed. Centrality-dependent $\pt$-spectra and (pseudo)rapidity spectra of thermal ph…

hep-ph2011★ 37 cited

Isospin-Violating Dark Matter and Neutrinos From the Sun

Shao-Long Chen, Yue Zhang

We study the indirect detection of dark matter through neutrino flux from their annihilation in the center of the Sun, in a class of theories where the dark matter-nucleon spin-ind…

hep-ph2011

Longitudinal Fluctuations in Partonic and Hadronic Initial State

Yun Cheng, Yu-Liang Yan, Dai-Mei Zhou +3

Collective flow in collisions between Lead nuclei at LHC are influenced by random initial state fluctuations, especially for odd harmonics. Here we extend fluctuation studies to lo…

hep-ph2011★ 167 cited

Comparison of Jet Quenching Formalisms for a Quark-Gluon Plasma "Brick"

Nestor Armesto, Brian Cole, Charles Gale +12

We review the currently available formalisms for radiative energy loss of a high-momentum parton in a dense strongly interacting medium. The underlying theoretical framework of the…

hep-ph2011★ 289 cited

Scale for the Phase Diagram of Quantum Chromodynamics

Sourendu Gupta, Xiaofeng Luo, Bedangadas Mohanty +2

Matter described by Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), the theory of strong interactions, may undergo phase transitions when its temperature and the chemical potentials are varied. QCD…

hep-ph2011★ 127 cited

analysis of inclusive jet and di-jet production in heavy ion reactions at the Large Hadron Collider

Yuncun He, Ivan Vitev, Ben-Wei Zhang

Jets physics in heavy ion reactions is an important new area of active research at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) that paves the…

hep-ph2011★ 13 cited

Anomalous coupling effects in exclusive radiative B-meson decays

Xin-Qiang Li, Ya-Dong Yang, Xing-Bo Yuan

The top-quark FCNC processes will be searched for at the CERN LHC, which are correlated with the B-meson decays. In this paper, we study the effects of top-quark anomalous interact…

hep-ph2011★ 3 cited

The Latent Heat of Single Flavor Color Superconductivity in a Magnetic Field

Ping-ping Wu, Hang He, Defu Hou +1

We calculate the energy release associated with first-order phase transition between different types of single flavor color superconductivity in a magnetic field.

hep-ph2011★ 32 cited

The Subleading Term of the Strong Coupling Expansion of the Heavy-Quark Potential in a Super Yang-Mills Plasma

Zi-qiang Zhang, Defu Hou, Hai-cang Ren +1

Applying the AdS/CFT correspondence, the expansion of the heavy-quark potential of the supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory at large is carried out to the sub-leading…

hep-ph2011★ 1 cited

production and elliptic flow parameter at LHC energy

R Peng, C B Yang

We apply the recombination model to study production and its elliptic flow in the region of GeV/ at LHC energy. We show the distribution of as function o…

hep-ph2011★ 9 cited

Strange quark suppression and strange hadron production in pp collisions at RHIC and LHC

Hai-Yan Long, Sheng-Qin Feng, Dai-Mei Zhou +3

The parton and hadron cascade model PACIAE based on PYTHIA was utilized to systematically investigate the strange particle production in pp collisions at the RHIC and LHC energies.…

hep-ph2011★ 56 cited

Some Field Theoretic Issues Regarding the Chiral Magnetic Effect

Defu Hou, Hui Liu, Hai-cang Ren

In this paper, we shall address some field theoretic issues regarding the chiral magnetic effect. The general structure of the magnetic current consistent with the electromagnetic…

hep-ph2011

Study on the method of mini-jet identification in relativistic heavy ion collisions

Li De-sheng, Tian Feng-Ge, Chen Gang

In this thesis a set of methods identifying minijet from final state particles in the relativistic heavy ion collision events is established and the parameter dependence has been i…

hep-ph2011★ 3 cited

Productions of Heavy Flavored Mesons in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions in the Recombination Model

R Peng, C B Yang

We get the distributions of shower partons initiated by heavy quarks and by studying the fragmentation functions in the framework of the recombination model. The transverse…

hep-ph2011★ 11 cited

Studying of B_s^0-\bar{B}_s^0 mixing and B_{s}\to K^{(*)-}K^{(*)+} decays within supersymmetry

Ru-Min Wang, Yuan-Guo Xu, Qin Chang +1

Recent results from CDF and DØ collaborations favor a large CP asymmetry in B_s^0-\bar{B}_s^0 mixing, while the standard model prediction is very small. Such a large phase may impl…