Sudakov Effect on Vector Meson Production in the Framework of Color Glass Condensate
Wenchang XIANG1, Yanbing CAI1, Daicui ZHOU2
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摘要
在色玻璃凝聚框架下,将Sudakov效应运用到矢量介子产生中,计算了衍射遍举和衍射离解两种过程中轻()和重()介子产生的微分截面和总截面。首先,利用数值方法求解微分积分形式的领头阶偶极子演化方程和Sudakov抑制的次领头阶偶极子演化方程,得到相应的偶极子散射振幅,研究发现Sudakov抑制的次领头阶偶极子散射振幅小于同一快度下领头阶的偶极子散射振幅,随着快度增加两者之间的差距越来越大,由此表明Sudakov效应压低了偶极子散射振幅的演化速度。其次,将这些偶极子散射振幅应用到衍射矢量介子产生模型中,描述HERA(hadron electron ring accelerator)能区和介子产生相关实验数据,得到Sudakov抑制时的远小于领头阶时的,由此Sudakov效应提高了模型的精度,使得修正后的偶极子散射振幅能较好地描述相关数据,表明了Sudakov效应在矢量介子产生中起着重要的作用。
Abstract
In the framework of color glass condensate, the Sudakov effect is applied to study vector meson production. The differential cross sections and total cross sections of light () and heavy () mesons productions in diffractive exclusive process and diffractive dissociative process are calculated. Firstly, the leading order and next-to-leading order Sudakov suppressed dipole scattering amplitudes are obtained by numerically solving the integro-differential dipole evolution equations. We found that the next-to-leading order Sudakov suppressed dipole scattering amplitudes are smaller than the leading ones for a same rapidity, and the gap between these two amplitudes becomes larger and larger with the rapidity increasing, which indicates that the Sudakov effect suppresses the evolution speed of the dipole amplitude. Secondly, these numerical solutions are used in the diffractive vector meson production model to describe the and experimental data at HERA(hadron electron ring accelerator) energies. The corresponding for Sudakov case is much smaller than for leading order case, which shows that the Sudakov effect improves the precision of vector meson production model. The Sudakov modified dipole scattering amplitudes give a better description of the experimental data, which indicates that the Sudakov effect plays an important role in vector meson production.
在高能强子碰撞初期,由于胶子劈裂效应使得强子中的胶子密度会随着能量的增加(或者动量分数的减小)而增大。根据量子色动力学预言,当胶子密度达到一定程度时胶子融合现象变得重要,因此胶子的密度并不会无限制地增加。当能量达到临界值时,非线性效应使得胶子融合与劈裂达到一种平衡状态,形成饱和胶子物质,也称之为色玻璃凝聚态(color glass condensate,CGC)[1]。在高能碰撞中寻找CGC存在的信号一直是高能核物理领域研究的热点。在实验方面,从HERA(hadron electron ring accelerator)能区到RHIC(relativistic heavy ion collider)能区,再到LHC(large hadron collider)能区都有大量的实验致力于寻找CGC存在的证据,例如在HERA能区,H1和ZEUS实验组发现了质子的结构函数满足几何标度效应[2],验证了CGC理论的其中一个预言,间接地表明了HERA能区可能存在CGC物质。在理论方面,高能物理学家们在色玻璃凝聚理论框架下计算了不同能区的各种实验观测量,如质子结构函数、末态强子横动量分布、粒子多重数等,在一定的误差范围内理论计算很好地描述了相关实验数据,显示出了CGC理论的有效性[3]。然而除CGC理论外,其他一些理论,如DGLAP(Dokshitzer-Gribov-Lipatov-Altarelli-Parisi)演化也能对相应的实验观测量给出较好的描述[4,5]。因此,目前人们还很难甄别高能强子碰撞中初态形成的高密部分子系统到底是服从CGC演化机制、DGLAP演化机制还是其他演化机制。
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