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REGGE POLES AND ASYMPTOTIC BEHAVIOR IN THE ANALYTIC CONTINUATION OF THE PION-NUCLEON SCATTERING AMPLITUDE
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The TEXONO research program on low-energy neutrino and astroparticle physics
AbstractThis article reviews the research program and efforts of the TEXONO Collaboration on neutrino and astroparticles. The main program is on reactor-based low-energy neutrino physics at the Kuo-Sheng Power Plant in Taiwan. The facilities of the laboratory are described. A limit on the neutrino magnetic moment of μν(
$$\bar \nu _e $$
) < 1.3 × 10−10 μB at 90% C.L. has been achieved from measurements with a high-purity germanium detector. Other research programs at Kuo-Sheng are surveyed.
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Hadron spectra in p+p collisions at RHIC and LHC energies
We present the systematic analysis of transverse momentum (pT) spectra of identified hadrons in p+p collisions at Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider ( and 200 GeV) and at Large Hadron Collider (LHC) energies (, 2.76 and 7.0 TeV) using phenomenological fit functions. We review various forms of Hagedorn and Tsallis distributions and show their equivalence. We use Tsallis distribution which successfully describes the spectra in p+p collisions using two parameters, Tsallis temperature T which governs the soft bulk spectra and power n which determines the initial production in partonic collisions. We obtain these parameters for pions, kaons and protons as a function of center-of-mass energy . It is found that the parameter T has a weak but decreasing trend with increasing . The parameter n decreases with increasing which shows that production of hadrons at higher energies are increasingly dominated by point like qq scatterings. Another important observation is with increasing , the separation between the powers for protons and pions narrows down hinting that the baryons and mesons are governed by same production process as one moves to the highest LHC energy.
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Characteristics of alpha projectile fragments emission in interaction of nuclei with emulsion
The properties of the relativistic alpha fragments produced in interactions of 84Kr at around 1 A GeV in nuclear emulsion are investigated. The experimental results are compared with the similar results obtained from various projectiles with emulsion interactions at different energies. The total, partial nuclear cross-sections and production rates of alpha fragmentation channels in relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions and their dependence on the mass number and initial energy of the incident projectile nucleus are investigated. The yields of multiple alpha fragments emitted from the interactions of projectile nuclei with the nuclei of light, medium and heavy target groups of emulsion-detector are discussed and they indicate that the projectile-breakup mechanism seems to be free from the target mass number. It is found that the multiplicity distributions of alpha fragments are well described by the Koba-Nielsen-Olesen (KNO) scaling presentation. The mean multiplicities of the freshly produced or newly created charged secondary particles, normally known as shower and secondary particles associated with target in the events where the emission of alpha fragments were accompanied by heavy projectile fragments having Z ≥ 3 seem to be constant as the alpha fragments multiplicity increases, and exhibit a behavior independent of the alpha fragments multiplicity.
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Factorization of fragmentation cross-sections in heavy-ion collisions at 1A GeV
Fe-, Kr- and Xe-induced heavy-ion reactions at ~ 1 A GeV show factorization in the production cross-sections only for light fragments. Both "strong" and "weak" factorization are found for light fragments. The cross-sections of these fragments are described in detail within the prescription of cold breakup of spectator residues.
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Transverse mass spectra and scaling of hadrons at RHIC and LHC energies
We present a systematic study of transverse mass spectra ($m_T$) of mesons and baryons at RHIC and LHC energies. In an earlier study, it was shown that all the mesons produced in p+p and d+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 200 GeV follow $m_T$ scaling while in Au+Au collisions at same energy the mesons with strange and charm quark contents do not follow $m_T$ scaling which can be attributed to medium modifications. 
We extend this study for baryons produced in all above colliding systems at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 200 GeV. Although all available baryon spectra behave differently from mesons but are found to scale with protons for both p+p and d+Au collisions. In case of Au+Au collisions, the strange baryons behave differently from protons. 
This study has also been performed on the meson spectra in p+p collisions at 62.4 GeV which lies in between the highest RHIC energy and SPS energy where the $m_T$ scaling was first observed and we arrive at same conclusions as those at 200 GeV. 
We test the $m_T$ scaling at LHC with the first meson spectra measured in p+p collisions at 900 GeV and find that the $m_T$ spectra of kaons and $\phi$ do not scale with pions. Thus $m_T$ scaling which was working well up to p+p collisions at 200 GeV seems to be broken. Here we use all data measured in the mid rapidity region. Baryon to meson ratio is studied as a function of $m_T$, at different energies and for different systems and is found that this ratio for p+p at 900 GeV is quite different from that in p+p collisions at RHIC energies.
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Higher order JWKB expressions for the energy levels and the wavefunction at the origin
We derive an exact quantization condition for the energy levels of a particle in a radial potential assumed finite at the origin. This is used to derive corrections to the semiclassical JWKB quantization condition. We further relate the normalization integral of the wavefunction to the energy derivative of wavefunction at origin and use this expression to derive the corrections to the semiclassical JWKB expressions for the wavefunction at origin. An application to upsilon leptonic decay width is also given.
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An upper bound on the total inelastic cross section as a function of the total cross section
Recently Andr\'e Martin has proved a rigorous upper bound on the inelastic cross-section $\sigma_{inel}$ at high energy which is one-fourth of the known Froissart-Martin-Lukaszuk upper bound on $\sigma_{tot}$. Here we obtain an upper bound on $\sigma_{inel}$ in terms of $\sigma_{tot}$ and show that the Martin bound on $\sigma_{inel}$ is improved significantly with this added information.
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Monopoles and Confinement in Lattice-Gauge Theory.
A C K N O W LED G EM ENTS I am indebted to my advisor, R ichard H aym aker, for his guidance, pa­ tience and encouragem ent during this p ro ject. I am happy to thank him for m any hours of fruitful discussions, for m uch help w ith program m ing, and for taking a lot of trouble to help me gain an appreciation of particle physics in general. I am grateful for his support in encouraging me to a tten d various conferences and sum m er schools, and in giving me the opportun ity to present talks. I am also happy to thank our collaborator, D ana Browne for encour­ agem ent and advice, for being very generous w ith his time, for invaluable help w ith this p ro ject, and also for helping me w ith program m ing, w riting papers, and Tq X . I am also glad to acknowledge useful discussions and help from Chen-H an Lee. I would also like to thank my friends C hristopher C hapm an, Shyamoli C haudhuri, C h itra Guruswamy, Ja i Won Kim, Evan M auceli, Ying Cai Peng, Vijay Poduri, Hossein Sadeghpour, Z ahra Sadeghpour, Jyo tsna V ijapurkar. Bing Yu, and Lijun Zhang, for the ir help and support. M ost of all, I am indebted to my family, w ithout whose support and encouragem ent this work would not have been possible. This work was done on the Physics SUN cluster (LEQSF(90-92)-ENH-12) and on the IBM 3090.
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ASYMPTOTIC BOUNDS ON THE ABSORPTIVE PARTS OF THE ELASTIC SCATTERING AMPLITUDES.
We establish exact bounds on the absorptive parts A(s,t) of an elastic scattering amplitude (spinless case) and evaluate them for positive t values lying within the Lehmann-Martin ellipse [the major axis = 2(1+t 0 /2k 2 )]. These bounds are used to derive a number of asymptotic results; e.g., (i) the "diffraction-peak width" W is larger than W min ~4t 0 /(1+λ) 2 × (1-1/2σ)(lns) 2 (for s→∞); (ii) the leading Regge trajectory for t 0 > t > 0 lies below [1+(t/t 0 ) 1/2 ]-λ[1-(t/t 0 ) 1/2 ]; (iii) there are no complex zeros of A(s,t) for |t| 0 /(1+λ) 2 e 2 (lns) 2 (for s→∞) and no real zeros for t 0 > t >-W min , where λ=lim s→∞ lnσ tot (s)/lns and σ=lim s→∞ t 0 σ tot (s)/4Π(lns) 2 .
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REGGE POLES AND ASYMPTOTIC BEHAVIOR IN THE ANALYTIC CONTINUATION OF THE PION-NUCLEON SCATTERING AMPLITUDE