Publications

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• Vision for QCD to the 2030s and Beyond

  George Sterman

  SciPost Phys. Proc. 8, 156 (2022) · published 14 July 2022 | Toggle abstract · pdf

  In this closing talk, I review some of the lessons we've learned about quantum chromodynamics, and reflect on what we may hope to learn in the coming years.

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• Three-body correlations in mesonic-atom-like systems

  Hajime Moriya, Wataru Horiuchi, Jean-Marc Richard

  SciPost Phys. Proc. 3, 051 (2020) · published 27 February 2020 | Toggle abstract · pdf

  Three-body correlations in three-body exotic atoms are studied with simple models that consist of three bosons interacting through a superposition of long- and short-range potentials. We discuss the correlations among particles by comparing the energy shifts given by precise three-body calculations and by the Deser-Trueman formula, in which the long- and short-range contributions are factorized. By varying the coupling of the short-range potential, we evaluate the ranges of the strength where the two-body correlations dominate and where the three-body correlations cannot be neglected.

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• Pion GPDs: Constraints, modelling and experimental access

  Jose Manuel Morgado Chávez

  SciPost Phys. Proc. 8, 165 (2022) · published 14 July 2022 | Toggle abstract · pdf

  The study of Generalised Parton Distributions is a hot-topic in hadron physics. Due to its connection with chiral symmetry breaking, assessing those of pions is of great interest. For this reason, we present a novel model-building strategy for pion GPDs capable of fulfilling all of the theoretical constraints required by QCD: support, polynomiality, positivity and soft-pion theorem. The methodology is illustrated with a simple model, and exploited afterwards for the calculation of pions' deeply virtual Compton Scattering (DVCS) Compton Form Factors (CFFs) at NLO. The results show gluon-content to play the dominant role in pions' response to DVCS at EIC kinematics.

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• Theoretical study of deeply virtual Compton scattering off $^4$He

  Sara Fucini, Sergio Scopetta, Michele Viviani

  SciPost Phys. Proc. 3, 012 (2020) · published 24 February 2020 | Toggle abstract · pdf

  An interesting breakthrough in understanding the elusive inner content of nuclear systems in terms of partonic degrees of freedom is represented by deeply virtual Compton scattering processes. In such a way, tomographic view of nuclei and bound nucleons in coordinate space could be achieved for the first time. Moreover, nowadays experimental results for such a process considering $^4$He targets recently released at Jefferson Lab are available. In this talk, the recent results of our rigorous Impulse Approximation for DVCS off $^4$He, in terms of state-of-the-art models of the nuclear spectral function and of the parton structure of the bound proton, able to explain present data, has been shown.

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• An accurate allowance for initial and final state interactions in the treatment of the alpha-alpha Bremsstrahlung

  Adam M. Arslanaliev, Aleksandr V. Shebeko

  SciPost Phys. Proc. 3, 042 (2020) · published 27 February 2020 | Toggle abstract · pdf

  The alpha-alpha bremsstrahlung is studied using the generalization of the Siegert theorem. The corresponding amplitude is written in the gauge invariant form. Special attention is paid to taking into account the Coulomb interaction. Some correlation function is found and its dependence on the strong interaction is discussed.

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• Nuclear matter effects on jet production at electron-ion colliders

  Hai Tao Li, Ze Long Liu, Ivan Vitev

  SciPost Phys. Proc. 8, 134 (2022) · published 14 July 2022 | Toggle abstract · pdf

  In these proceedings we report recent progress on understanding hadron and jet production in electron-nucleus collisions at the future Electron-Ion Collider [1,2]. These processes will play an essential role in the exploration of the partonic structure of nuclei and the study of parton shower evolution in strongly-interacting matter. We employ the framework of soft-collinear effective theory, generalized to include in-medium interactions, to present the first theoretical results for inclusive hadron and jet cross sections, as well as the jet charge modification in deep inelastic scattering on nuclei. We further demonstrate how to separate initial-state and final-state effects.

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• Correlations among 3N observables

  Yuriy Volkotrub, Jacek Golak, Roman Skibiński, Kacper Topolnicki, Henryk Witała

  SciPost Phys. Proc. 3, 055 (2020) · published 27 February 2020 | Toggle abstract · pdf

  We use a correlation matrix of two-nucleon (2N) potential parameters to investigate correlations among three-nucleon (3N) observables for the elastic nucleon-deuteron (Nd) scattering process. We employ the up-to-date 2N semilocal momentum-space regularized chiral interactions and the phenomenological OPE-Gaussian potential and using the Faddeev formalism we calculate 3N observables and their correlations. As an example, we present the correlation between the differential cross section and the deuteron analyzing power T20.

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• Nucleon axial form factors from lattice QCD

  Constantia Alexandrou

  SciPost Phys. Proc. 6, 006 (2022) · published 31 May 2022 | Toggle abstract · pdf

  We give an overview on the evaluation of the axial and pseudoscalar form factors of the nucleon within the lattice QCD formulation. We discuss recent results obtained from the analysisofNf =2+1+1twistedmassfermiongaugeensemblesgeneratedatphysical values of the pion mass. Besides evaluating the isovector form factors, and the PCAC and Goldberger-Treiman relations, we also discuss results for the strange and charm axial form factors. We provide a comparison with other recent lattice QCD results obtained with different discretization schemes of the fermion action.

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• Zero modes and matching for the twist-3 PDFs

  Shohini Bhattacharya, Krzysztof Cichy, Martha Constantinou, Andreas Metz, Aurora Scapellato, Fernanda Steffens

  SciPost Phys. Proc. 8, 056 (2022) · published 12 July 2022 | Toggle abstract · pdf

  The quasi-PDF approach, proposed by X. Ji in 2013, has made it possible to directly extract light-cone PDFs from lattice QCD. This approach relies on the extraction of matrix elements of space-like operators for fast-moving hadrons. Quasi-PDFs can be related to the light-cone PDFs through a perturbatively calculable matching coefficient. We explore the formalism of matching, for the very first time, for the twist-3 PDFs $g_{T}(x)$, $e(x)$ and $h_{L}(x)$. In this work, we address the non-trivialities involved in the extraction of the matching coefficient due to the presence of (singular) zero-mode contributions.

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• A somewhat random walk through nuclear and particle physics

  Thomas D. Cohen, Nicholas R. Poniatowski

  SciPost Phys. Lect. Notes 34 (2021) · published 20 September 2021 | Toggle abstract · pdf

  These notes are an outgrowth of an advanced undergraduate course taught at the University of Maryland, College Park. They are intended as an introduction to various aspects of particle and nuclear physics with an emphasis on the role of symmetry. The basic philosophy is to introduce many of the fundamental ideas in nuclear and particle physics using relatively sophisticated mathematical tools -- but to do so in as a simplified a context to explain the underlying ideas. Thus, for example, the Higgs mechanism is discussed in terms of an Abelian Higgs model. The emphasis is largely, but not entirely theoretical in orientation. The goal is for readers to develop an understanding of many of the underlying issues in a relatively sophisticated way.

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