scholarly journals Leading jets and energy loss

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Duff Neill ◽  
Felix Ringer ◽  
Nobuo Sato

Abstract The formation and evolution of leading jets can be described by jet functions which satisfy non-linear DGLAP-type evolution equations. Different than for inclusive jets, the leading jet functions constitute normalized probability densities for the leading jet to carry a longitudinal momentum fraction relative to the initial fragmenting parton. We present a parton shower algorithm which allows for the calculation of leading-jet cross sections where logarithms of the jet radius and threshold logarithms are resummed to next-to-leading logarithmic (NLL′) accuracy. By calculating the mean of the leading jet distribution, we are able to quantify the average out-of-jet radiation, the so-called jet energy loss. When an additional reference scale is measured, we are able to determine the energy loss of leading jets at the cross section level which is identical to parton energy loss at leading-logarithmic accuracy. We identify several suitable cross sections for an extraction of the jet energy loss and we present numerical results for leading subjets at the LHC. In addition, we consider hemisphere and event-wide leading jets in electron-positron annihilation similar to measurements performed at LEP. Besides the average energy loss, we also consider its variance and other statistical quantities such as the KL divergence which quantifies the difference between quark and gluon jet energy loss. We expect that our results will be particularly relevant for quantifying the energy loss of quark and gluon jets that propagate through hot or cold nuclear matter.

Author(s):  
Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett

The measurements by Neddermeyer and Anderson (1937) of the absorp­tion of cosmic-ray particles of low energy by metal plates differ in certain respects from those by Blackett and Wilson (1937). The former results showed that, in the energy range 1∙2 x 10 8 to 5 x 10 8 e-volts, two types of particles exist, an absorbable group assumed to behave as theory predicts of electrons and a much more penetrating group, attributed provisionally to heavier particles. On the other hand, we found that all the rays with energy under 2 x 10 8 e-volts were absorbed like electrons, while for rays of greater energy the average energy loss was very much less. Though a very few energetic particles were found to have a high energy loss, insufficient evidence was then available to justify classifying them as of a nature distinct from the less absorbable rays. Thus we obtained definite experimental evidence that the energy loss of the great majority of the rays varies rapidly with their energy. We concluded, therefore, that the energy loss of a normal electron varies with its energy. We now believe this to be probably false, since the success of the cascade theory of showers, in explaining the transition curve in the atmosphere, and a large part, at any rate, of the phenomena of the transition curves of showers and bursts, has provided fairly strong evidence that there must be a very few energetic rays at sea-level, which have the full radiation loss of electrons, even in heavy elements. It follows that the great majority of the rays, for which the energy loss certainly varies rapidly with energy, are probably not normal electrons. We therefore agree with the view of Neddermeyer and Anderson that it is likely that there are two types of particles present, though the difference in behaviour only exists for energies over 2 x 10 8 e-volts.


1994 ◽  
Vol 12 (10/11) ◽  
pp. 1071-1075 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. V. Kozelov ◽  
V. E. Ivanov

Abstract. Effective energy loss per electron-ion pair produced, <xi>(E0), as a function of a particle's initial energy has been obtained for proton transport in the atmosphere. The influence of some transport parameters on the shape of <xi>(E0) has been studied. Comparisons with the case of electron transport and with other results were made. It has been shown that: 1. for E0>1 keV, <xi>(E0) varies within the range 30-36 eV; 2. as E0 increases the value of <xi>(E0) tries to attain an asymptotic value that is the same as for electrons (≈35 eV); 3. <xi>(E0) strongly depends on the average energy of secondary electrons, but the energy distribution of secondary electrons is not as important. The range of possible changes in <xi>(E0) associated with discrepancies in cross sections has been obtained.


Author(s):  
David C. Joy ◽  
Suichu Luo ◽  
John R. Dunlap ◽  
Dick Williams ◽  
Siqi Cao

In Physics, Chemistry, Materials Science, Biology and Medicine, it is very important to have accurate information about the stopping power of various media for electrons, that is the average energy loss per unit pathlength due to inelastic Coulomb collisions with atomic electrons of the specimen along their trajectories. Techniques such as photoemission spectroscopy, Auger electron spectroscopy, and electron energy loss spectroscopy have been used in the measurements of electron-solid interaction. In this paper we present a comprehensive technique which combines experimental and theoretical work to determine the electron stopping power for various materials by electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS ). As an example, we measured stopping power for Si, C, and their compound SiC. The method, results and discussion are described briefly as below.The stopping power calculation is based on the modified Bethe formula at low energy:where Neff and Ieff are the effective values of the mean ionization potential, and the number of electrons participating in the process respectively. Neff and Ieff can be obtained from the sum rule relations as we discussed before3 using the energy loss function Im(−1/ε).


Author(s):  
Fox T. R. ◽  
R. Levi-Setti

At an earlier meeting [1], we discussed information retrieval in the scanning transmission ion microscope (STIM) compared with the electron microscope at the same energy. We treated elastic scattering contrast, using total elastic cross sections; relative damage was estimated from energy loss data. This treatment is valid for “thin” specimens, where the incident particles suffer only single scattering. Since proton cross sections exceed electron cross sections, a given specimen (e.g., 1 μg/cm2 of carbon at 25 keV) may be thin for electrons but “thick” for protons. Therefore, we now extend our previous analysis to include multiple scattering. Our proton results are based on the calculations of Sigmund and Winterbon [2], for 25 keV protons on carbon, using a Thomas-Fermi screened potential with a screening length of 0.0226 nm. The electron results are from Crewe and Groves [3] at 30 keV.


Author(s):  
Niels Engholm Henriksen ◽  
Flemming Yssing Hansen

This chapter reviews the microscopic interpretation of the pre-exponential factor and the activation energy in rate constant expressions of the Arrhenius form. The pre-exponential factor of apparent unimolecular reactions is, roughly, expected to be of the order of a vibrational frequency, whereas the pre-exponential factor of bimolecular reactions, roughly, is related to the number of collisions per unit time and per unit volume. The activation energy of an elementary reaction can be interpreted as the average energy of the molecules that react minus the average energy of the reactants. Specializing to conventional transition-state theory, the activation energy is related to the classical barrier height of the potential energy surface plus the difference in zero-point energies and average internal energies between the activated complex and the reactants. When quantum tunnelling is included in transition-state theory, the activation energy is reduced, compared to the interpretation given in conventional transition-state theory.


1998 ◽  
Vol 08 (04) ◽  
pp. 225-233 ◽  
Author(s):  
TAKESHI MUKOYAMA

The energy-loss effect of the projectile for direct inner-shell ionization cross sections by charged-particle impact has been examined. The relativistic and nonrelativistic calculations for K-shell ionization with and without the energy-loss effect are made in the plane-wave Born approximation and compared with the Brandt-Lapicki theory for the corrections of the relativistic and energy-loss effect. It is demonstrated that the Brandt-Lapicki method gives a good approximation to both relativistic and nonrelativistic cross sections, which implicitly take into account the energy-loss effect. However, the use of the Brandt-Lapicki relativistic correction method in the nonrelativistic theory with the exact integration limits for energy and momentum transfer overestimates the relativistic calculations for low-energy projectiles. This indicates that the Brandt-Lapicki method for correction of the electronic relativistic effect should be used only with their energy-loss correction method.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Iancu ◽  
A. H. Mueller ◽  
D. N. Triantafyllopoulos ◽  
S. Y. Wei

Abstract Using the dipole picture for electron-nucleus deep inelastic scattering at small Bjorken x, we study the effects of gluon saturation in the nuclear target on the cross-section for SIDIS (single inclusive hadron, or jet, production). We argue that the sensitivity of this process to gluon saturation can be enhanced by tagging on a hadron (or jet) which carries a large fraction z ≃ 1 of the longitudinal momentum of the virtual photon. This opens the possibility to study gluon saturation in relatively hard processes, where the virtuality Q2 is (much) larger than the target saturation momentum $$ {Q}_s^2 $$ Q s 2 , but such that z(1 − z)Q2 ≲ $$ {Q}_s^2 $$ Q s 2 . Working in the limit z(1 − z)Q2 ≪ $$ {Q}_s^2 $$ Q s 2 , we predict new phenomena which would signal saturation in the SIDIS cross-section. For sufficiently low transverse momenta k⊥ ≪ Qs of the produced particle, the dominant contribution comes from elastic scattering in the black disk limit, which exposes the unintegrated quark distribution in the virtual photon. For larger momenta k⊥ ≳ Qs, inelastic collisions take the leading role. They explore gluon saturation via multiple scattering, leading to a Gaussian distribution in k⊥ centred around Qs. When z(1 − z)Q2 ≪ Q2, this results in a Cronin peak in the nuclear modification factor (the RpA ratio) at moderate values of x. With decreasing x, this peak is washed out by the high-energy evolution and replaced by nuclear suppression (RpA< 1) up to large momenta k⊥ ≫ Qs. Still for z(1 − z)Q2 ≪ $$ {Q}_s^2 $$ Q s 2 , we also compute SIDIS cross-sections integrated over k⊥. We find that both elastic and inelastic scattering are controlled by the black disk limit, so they yield similar contributions, of zeroth order in the QCD coupling.


2008 ◽  
Vol 23 (27n30) ◽  
pp. 2512-2515 ◽  
Author(s):  
HIDEKO NAGAHIRO ◽  
DAISUKE JIDO ◽  
SATORU HIRENZAKI

We investigate the properties of η-nucleus interaction by postulating the N*(1535) dominance for η-N system. We evaluate the N*(1535) properties in the nuclear medium using two kinds of chiral models, and find that these two models provide qualitatively different η-nucleus optical potentials reflecting the quite distinct properties of N*(1535) in these chiral models. Especially, in the chiral doublet model, we can expect to have the level crossing between η and N*(1535)-hole which is expected to provide the characteristic features for the optical potential and the formation spectra. We find also that the difference of these models can be seen in the formation cross sections of the η mesic nuclei with (π+, p ) reaction expected to be performed at J-PARC project.


2009 ◽  
Vol 33 (6) ◽  
pp. 456-462
Author(s):  
Huang Huan-Zhong
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1969 ◽  
Vol 47 (10) ◽  
pp. 1723-1729 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Dalgarno

A summary is presented of the processes by which low energy electrons lose energy in moving through the atmosphere and estimates are given of the cross sections and energy loss rates. The mechanisms by which thermal electrons cool are described and the cooling efficiencies are listed.


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