物理セミナー

日時: 2005-11-16 16:30 - 17:30
場所: 4号館3F輪講室345
会議名: Discovery of high energy color transparency and quest for color opacity
連絡先: 物理セミナー世話人
講演者: Mark Strikman  (Pennsylvania State University/KEK)
講演言語: 英語
URL: http://seminar.kek.jp/physics
アブストラクト: Quantum Chromodynamics, the fundamental theory of strong interactions, is the only self consistent quantum field theory. However at present it only provides unambiguous predictions for hard incoherent processes. A new domain has recently emerged - coherent interactions of small color dipoles, for which model independent predictions are possible. Among the key predictions were a strong suppression of coherent interactions (color transparency) and a proportionality of the scattering amplitude to the gluon density of the target. The first unambigous discovery of the color transparency phenomenon and confirmation of the theory was reported by the FNAL E791 experiment which observed pion coherent dissociation into two jets. Complementary evidence came from experiments at the electron - proton collider at Hamburg (HERA) which observed exclusive production of vector mesons in deep inelastic scattering. Future studies in this field will include looking for the color transparency regime for kinematics where space-time evolution of the interacting wave package is important using electron and hadron nucleus hard exclusive processes at energies 10-50 GeV, as well as for the onset of the color opacity regime in ultraperipheral collisions at LHC.

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