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Publications and source records attributed to B. G. Zakharov.
We present our study of the diffraction in charged current DIS. We analyse the perturbatively tractable excitation of heavy quarks, emphasizing the peculiarities of the Regge factorization breaking in excitation of open charm.
We develop the color dipole gBFKL phenomenology of a diffraction cone for photo- and electroproduction $γ^{*}N \to VN$ of heavy vector mesons (charmonium & bottonium) at HERA and in fixed target experiments. We predict a substantial shrinkage of the diffraction cone from the CERN/FNAL to the HERA range of c.m.s. energy $W$. The $Q^{2}$-controlled selectivity to the color dipole size (scanning phenomenon) is shown to lead to a decrease of the diffraction slope with $Q^{2}$ (which is supported by the available experimental data). We predict an approximate flavor independence of the diffraction slope in the scaling variable $Q^{2}+m_{V}^{2}$. For diffractive production of the radially excited $2S$ states ($Ψ',Υ'$) the counterintuitive inequality of diffraction slopes $B(2S) \lsim B(1S)$ is predicted, which defies the common wisdom that diffraction slopes are larger for reactions with larger size particles.
In this letter we report the direct perturbative QCD evaluation of twist-4 effects in diffractive DIS. They are large and have a strong impact on the $Q^2$ dependence of diffractive structure functions at large $β$. Based on the AGK rules, we comment on the possible contribution from diffractive higher twists to $\propto {1 \over Q^{2}}$ corrections to proton structure function at small $x$. These corrections to the longitudinal structure function $F_{L}$ may be particularly large.
We compaWe compare the absorptive corrections to the one pion exchange in $pp\to Xn$ and $ep\to e'Xn$ reactions. It is shown that the absorption is stronger in the case of $pp$ collision. The difference in strength of the absorption for the $pp\to Xn$ and $ep\to e'Xn$ reactions breaks the factorization peculiar to the pure one pion exchange. We evaluate the emerging model dependence of extraction of the small-$x$ pion structure function from an analysis of the HERA data on the neutron production at physical values of $t$.
We calculate the Regge trajectories of the subleading BFKL singularities and eigenfunctions for the running BFKL pomeron in the color dipole representation. We obtain a viable BFKL-Regge expansion of the proton structure function $F_{2p}(x,Q^2)$ in terms of several rightmost BFKL singularities. We find large subleading contributions to $F_{2p}(x,Q^2)$ in the HERA kinematical region which explains the lack of a predictive power of GLDAP-extrapolations of $F_{2p}(x,Q^2)$ to a domain of small $x$. We point out the relation of our early finding of the precocious BFKL asymptotics to the nodal structure of subleading BFKL eigenfunctions.
The recent progress in the pQCD theroy of diffractive DIS (DDIS) is reviewed. We place emphasis on pQCD scales, diffractive factorization breaking, jet and charm production and new fundamental observables which are becomeing accessible with the Leading Proton Spectrometers of ZEUS and H1.
The induced gluon radiation of a high energy quark in a finite-size QCD medium is studied. For a sufficiently energetic quark produced inside a medium we find the radiative energy loss $ΔE_{q}\propto L^{2}$, where L is the distance passed by quark in the medium. It has a weak dependence on the initial quark energy $E_{q}$. The $L^{2}$ dependence turns to $L^{1}$ as the quark energy decreases. Numerical calculations are performed for a cold nuclear matter and a hot quark-gluon plasma. For a quark incident on a nucleus we predict $ΔE_{q}\approx 0.1 E_{q}(L/10 fm)^β$, with $β$ close to unity.
A rigorous evaluation of the Landau-Pomeranchuk-Migdal effect for finite-size targets is performed within the path integral approach previously developed in ref. [4]. The bremsstrahlung rate in QED is expressed through a solution of a two-dimensional Schrödinger equation with an imaginary potential. The boundary condition for this solution is formulated in terms of a product of the light-cone electron--photon wave function and the dipole cross section for scattering of $e^{+}e^{-}$ pair off an atom. Numerical calculations are performed for homogeneous and structured targets. Our predictions for the homogeneous target agree well with the photon spectrum measured recently at SLAC with 25 GeV electrons. The spectra obtained for the structured two segment targets exhibit the interference minima and maxima.
We discuss the factorization breaking effects caused by the contribution to large rapidity gap events from DIS on secondary reggeons. Based on the triple-Regge phenomenology of hadronic diffraction dissociation, we present estimates for the flux and structure function of the f reggeon. The kinematical x_Pom-beta correlation is shown to modify substantially the observed x_Pom dependence of the diffractive structure function. The secondary reggeon and x_Pom-beta correlation effects explain the recent H1 finding of the factorization breaking and resolve the apparent contradiction between the preliminary H1 results and predictions from the color dipole gBFKL approach. We suggest further tests of predictions for diffractive DIS from the gBFKL approach.
We discuss the implications of a strong enhancement of diffraction for multiproduction in DIS off nuclear targets. The predicted effects are large and observable at HERA. We present the prediction of a large tensor structure function b_2(x) of the deuteron which does not vanish at small x.
We explore the missing momentum dependence of the CT effects in quasielastic (e,e'p) scattering. We develop the coupled-channel multiple-scattering theory (CCMST) description of final-state interaction including both the coherent and incoherent rescatterings of the ejectile state. We demonstrate that the contribution of the off-diagonal incoherent rescattering does not vanish at low Q^{2} which is a novel correction to the conventional Glauber theory evaluation of nuclear transparency. We comment on the nontrivial impact of this correction on the onset of CT. The sensitivity of the onset of CT to the 3q-nucleon reggeon amplitudes is discussed for the first time. We present numerical results for nuclear transparency as a function of the missing momentum for exclusive (e,e'p) reaction in the kinematical region of Q^{2} \le 40 GeV^{2} and p_{m} \le 250$ MeV/c. Our evaluations show that at Q^{2}\sim 10 CT effects are substantial only in antiparallel kinematics at p_{m,z}\sim -250 MeV/c. The effect is enhanced on light nuclei and could be observed in a high precision experiment.
We develop the Glauber theory description of initial- and final-state interactions (IFSI) in quasielastic A(p,2p) scattering. We study the IFSI-distortion effects both for the inclusive and exclusive conditions. In inclusive reaction the important new effect is an interaction between the two sets of the trajectories which enter the calculation of IFSI-distorted one-body density matrix for inclusive (p,2p) scattering and are connected with incoherent elastic rescatterings of the initial and final protons on spectator nucleons. We demonstrate that IFSI-distortions of the missing momentum distribution are large over the whole range of missing momentum both for inclusive and exclusive reactions and affect in a crucial way the interpretation of the BNL data on (p,2p) scattering. Our numerical results show that in the region of missing momentum $p_{m}\lsim 100-150$ MeV/c the incoherent IFSI increase nuclear transparency by 5-10\%. The incoherent IFSI become dominant at $p_{m}\gsim 200$ MeV/c.
We review the recent progress in the theory of diffractive DIS, focusing on predictions of strong breaking of the Ingelman-Schlein-Regge factorization and the related breaking of the GLDAP evolution for the diffractive structure function.
For the first time a rigorous quantum treatment of the Landau-Pomeranchuk-Migdal effect in QED and QCD is given. The rate of photon (gluon) radiation by an electron (quark) in medium is expressed through the Green's function of a two-dimensional Schrödinger equation with an imaginary potential. In QED this potential is proportional to the dipole cross section for scattering of $e^{+}e^{-}$ pair off an atom, in QCD it is proportional to the cross section of interaction with color centre of the color singlet quark-antiquark-gluon system.
We develop the color dipole phenomenology of diffractive photo- and electroproduction $γ^{*}\,N\rightarrow V(V')\,N$ of light vector mesons ($V(1S) = ϕ^0, ω^0, ρ^0$) and their radial excitations ($V'(2S) = ϕ', ω', ρ'$). The node of the radial wave function of the $2S$ states in conjunction with the energy dependence of the color dipole cross section is shown to lead to a strikingly different $Q^2$ and $ν$ dependence of diffractive production of the $V(1S)$ and $V'(2S)$ vector mesons. We discuss the restoration of flavor symmetry and universality properties of production of different vector mesons as a function of $Q^{2}+m_{V}^{2}$. The color dipole model predictions for the $ρ^{0}$ and $ϕ^{0}$ production are in good agreement with the experimental data from the EMC, NMC, ZEUS and H1 collaborations. We present the first direct evaluation of the dipole cross section from these data.
We present the color dipole phenomenology of diffractive photo- and electroproduction $γ^{*} N\to V(V') N$ of vector mesons ($V(1S) = ϕ^0, ω^0, ρ^0, J/Ψ, Υ$) and their radial excitations ($V'(2S) = ϕ', ω', ρ', Ψ', Υ'$). The main emphasis is related to light vector mesons. We discuss how the energy dependence of the color dipole cross section in conjuction with the node of the radial wave function of the $2S$ states can lead to an anomalous $Q^2$ and energy dependence of diffractive production of $V'(2S)$ vector mesons. The color dipole model predictions for $V(1S)$ light vector meson production are compared with the experimental data from the EMC, NMC, ZEUS and H1 collaborations.
We present the first evaluation of color dipole cross section from experimental data on diffractive photo- and electroproduction of vector mesons. The dipole-size and energy dependence of the found dipole cross section is consistent with expectations from the BFKL dynamics.
We develop the pQCD description of diffraction excitation of heavy flavours in DIS and we derive the analytic formulas for the mass spectrum in leading log$m_f^{2}$. The result illustrates nicely non-factorization properties of the QCD pomeron. We predict a very steep rise of the charm content of diffraction dissociation of photons at small $x_{\Pom}$. We evaluate the contribution of open charm to scaling violations in the structure function of the pomeron.