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hep-ph2013★ 18 cited

Are the Angular Correlations in pA Collisions due to a Glasmion or Bose Condensation ?

Adrian Dumitru, Tuomas Lappi, Larry McLerran

Experiments at the LHC have recently reported results on the angular asymmetry coefficients , for various angular moments and orders of cumulants , in high multiplic…

hep-ph2013★ 48 cited

Fluctuation induced equality of multi-particle eccentricities for four or more particles

Adam Bzdak, Piotr Bozek, Larry McLerran

We discuss eccentricities (ellipticity and triangularity) generated in nucleus-nucleus and proton-nucleus collisions. We define multi-particle eccentricities which are a…

hep-ph2013★ 18 cited

Exclusive radiative B-meson decays within minimal flavour violating 2HDMs

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

In the "Higgs basis" for a generic 2HDM, only one doublet gets a nonzero vacuum expectation value and, under the criterion of minimal flavour violation, the other one is fixed to b…

hep-ph2013★ 27 cited

Universal Suppression of Heavy Quarkonium Production in pA Collisions at Low Transverse Momentum

Jian-Wei Qiu, Peng Sun, Bo-Wen Xiao +1

The nuclear suppression of heavy quarkonium production at low transverse momentum in pA collisions in high energy scatterings is investigated in the small-x factorization formalism…

hep-ph2013★ 49 cited

Next-to-Leading QCD Factorization for Semi-Inclusive Deep Inelastic Scattering at Twist-4

Zhong-Bo Kang, Enke Wang, Xin-Nian Wang +1

Within the framework of a high-twist approach, we calculate the next-to-leading order (NLO) perturbative QCD corrections to the transverse momentum broadening in semi-inclusive had…

hep-ph2013★ 1 cited

Singularities, boundary conditions and gauge link in the light cone gauge

Jian-Hua Gao

In this work, we first review the issues on the singularities and the boundary conditions in light cone gauge and how to regularize them properly. Then we will further review how t…

hep-ph2013★ 41 cited

Penguin Pollution in Decays and Impact on the Extraction of the mixing phase

Xin Liu, Wei Wang, Yuehong Xie

We formulate the most-general time-dependent decay distributions of in which the direct CP violation is explicitly incorporated. We then inve…

hep-ph2013★ 3 cited

CP violation induced by the interference of scalar and vector resonances in three-body decays of bottom mesons

Zhen-Hua Zhang, Xin-Heng Guo, Ya-Dong Yang

Large CP violation is an interesting phenomenon both theoretically and experimentally. Last year, LHCb Collaboration found in some three-body decays of bottom mesons that large CP…

hep-ph2013★ 28 cited

Effect of the Wood-Saxon nuclear distribution on the chiral magnetic field in Relativistic Heavy-ion Collisions

Yu-Jun Mo, Sheng-Qin Feng, Ya-Fei Shi

The formation of the QCD vacuum with nonzero winding number during relativistic heavy-ion collisions breaks the parity and charge-parity symmetry. A new kind of field configu…

hep-ph2013★ 166 cited

Sudakov Double Logarithms Resummation in Hard Processes in Small-x Saturation Formalism

A. H. Mueller, Bo-Wen Xiao, Feng Yuan

In this manuscript, we present a complete study of the Sudakov double logarithms resummation for various hard processes in eA and pA collisions in the small-x saturation formalism.…

hep-ph2013★ 15 cited

Negative Off-Diagonal Conductivities in a Weakly Coupled Quark Gluon Plasma

Jiunn-Wei Chen, Yen-Fu Liu, Shi Pu +2

We calculate the conductivity matrix of a weakly coupled quark-gluon plasma at the leading-log order. By setting all quark chemical potentials to be identical, the diagonal conduct…

hep-ph2013★ 4 cited

Nuclear dependences of azimuthal asymmetries in the Drell-Yan process

Long Chen, Jian-hua Gao, Zuo-tang Liang

We study nuclear dependences of azimuthal asymmetries in the Drell-Yan lepton pair production in nucleon-nucleus collisions with polarized nucleons.We use the "maximal two-gluon co…

hep-ph2013★ 34 cited

Azimuthal asymmetries in semi-inclusive DIS with polarized beam and/or target and their nuclear dependences

Yu-kun Song, Jian-hua Gao, Zuo-tang Liang +1

Using the formalism obtained from collinear expansion, we calculate the differential cross section and azimuthal asymmetries in semi-inclusive deeply inelastic lepton-nucleon (nucl…

hep-ph2013★ 23 cited

Gauge turbulence, topological defect dynamics, and condensation in Higgs models

Thomas Gasenzer, Larry McLerran, Jan M. Pawlowski +1

The real-time dynamics of topological defects and turbulent configurations of gauge fields for electric and magnetic confinement are studied numerically within a 2+1D Abelian Higgs…

hep-ph2013★ 31 cited

Shear viscosity of hadrons with K-matrix cross sections

Anton Wiranata, Volker Koch, Madappa Prakash +1

Shear viscosity ηand entropy density s of a hadronic resonance gas are calculated using the Chapman-Enskog and virial expansion methods using the K-matrix parametrization of hadron…

hep-ph2013★ 102 cited

Towards the Test of Saturation Physics Beyond Leading Logarithm

Anna M. Stasto, Bo-Wen Xiao, David Zaslavsky

We present results from the first next-to-leading order (NLO) numerical analysis of forward hadron production in pA collisions in the small-x saturation formalism. Using parton dis…

hep-ph2013★ 26 cited

Multiple scattering effects on inclusive particle production in the large-x regime

Zhong-Bo Kang, Ivan Vitev, Hongxi Xing

We study the multiple scattering effects on inclusive particle production in p+A and +A collisions. Specifically, we concentrate on the region where the parton momentum fraction…

hep-ph2013★ 1 cited

Strange particles production in relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions at RHIC and LHC energy regions

Xiao-Wen Ren, Sheng-Qin Feng, Xian-Bao Yuan

PACIAE, a parton and hadron cascade model, is utilized to systematically investigate strange particle production and strangeness enhancement in Au+Au collision and in Pb+Pb collisi…

hep-ph2013★ 14 cited

Bulk viscosity of hot dense Quark matter in PNJL model

Shi-Song Xiao, Le Zhang, Pan-Pan Guo +1

Starting from the Kubo formula and the the QCD low energy theorem, we study the the bulk viscosity of hot dense quark matter in the PNJL model from the equation of state . We show…

hep-ph2013★ 82 cited

Transverse Momentum of Protons, Pions and Kaons in High Multiplicity pp and pA Collisions: Evidence for the Color Glass Condensate?

Larry McLerran, Michal Praszalowicz, Bjoern Schenke

The CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider has recently presented data on the average transverse momentum of protons, kaons and pions as a function of particle multiplicity. W…

hep-ph2013★ 333 cited

Comments About the Electromagnetic Field in Heavy-Ion Collisions

L. McLerran, V. Skokov

In this short article we discuss the properties of electromagnetic fields in heavy-ion collisions and consequences for observables. We address quantitatively the issue of the magne…

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★ 79 cited

CP violation in in the region with low invariant mass of one pair

Zhen-Hua Zhang, Xin-Heng Guo, Ya-Dong Yang

Recently, the large CP asymmetries in decays were found by the LHCb Collaboration to localize in the region . We find such larg…

hep-ph2013★ 2 cited

Production of charged meson in bottom hadron charmed decays and the effect of the finite width correction of the meson

Zhen-Hua Zhang, Ya-Dong Yang, Xin-Heng Guo +2

We calculate the branching ratio of a bottom hadron decaying into a charmed hadron and a charged meson within the QCD factorization approach. We consider the effect of the fini…