Physics Seminar

DATE: 2007-06-12 16:00 - 17:00
PLACE: Room 244, Building No.4
TITLE: Novel hard QCD exclusive phenomena at J-PARC energies
CONTACT: KUMANO Shunzo (shunzo.kumanokek.jp)
SPEAKER: Mark Strikman  (Penn State University)
LANGUAGE: English
ABSTRACT: Aim of the talk is to explore the potential of J-PARC for discovery of novel hard exclusive QCD phenomena. We consider large t 2->2 processes dominated by exchange of three quarks and quark-antiquark between colliding hadrons. Such processes in addition to investigating QCD in a new kinematics provide a new way to look for new baryonic and mesonic resonances. In the region of large c.m. angles these studies may reveal the reasons for success of the scaling laws. When imbedded in the nuclei these processes will allow to explore the role of the small size configurations in mesons and baryons and related color transparency phenomenon, as well as investigate the space-time evolution of the color singlet small wave packets. At the same time these processes can be used for study of the high density configurations (short-range correlations) in nuclei. Studies in the similar kinematics of the processes where three hadrons are produced in the final state with two of the hadrons having large transverse momenta will allow to investigate diagonal and off diagonal generalized parton distributions of the nucleon and mesons and for the first time investigate color clustering properties of the hadrons. Advantages of using polarized targets/beams will be also discussed.

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