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Claude Bourrely

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arXiv2004

Positivity constraints for lepton polarization in neutrino deep inelastic scattering

We consider the spin polarization of leptons produced in neutrino and antineutrino nucleon deep inelastic scattering, via charged currents, and we study the positivity constraints on the spin components in a model independent way. These results are very important, in particular in the case of $τ^{\pm}$ leptons, because the polarization information is crucial in all future neutrino oscillation experiments.

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arXiv2003

Statistical approach for unpolarized fragmentation functions for the octet baryons

A statistical model for the parton distributions in the nucleon has proven its efficiency in the analysis of deep inelastic scattering data, so we propose to extend this approach to the description of unpolarized fragmentation functions for the octet baryons. The characteristics of the model are determined by using some data on the inclusive production of proton and $Λ$ in unpolarized deep inelastic scattering and a next-to-leading analysis of the available experimental data on the production of unpolarized octet baryons in $e^+e^-$ annihilation. Our results show that both parton distributions and fragmentation functions are compatible with the statistical approach, in terms of a few free parameters, whose interpretation will be discussed.

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arXiv2002

Impact-Picture Phenomenology for $π^{\pm}p, K^{\pm}p$ and $pp, \bar p p$

We present an extension to $π^{\pm} p$ and $K^{\pm} p$ elastic scattering at high energies of the impact-picture phenomenology we first proposed more than twenty years ago, for $p p$ and $\bar p p$ elastic scattering. We show, in particular, that the analytic form of the opacity function for the proton obtained previously is compatible with the experimental results on $πp$ and $K p$ elastic scattering at high energies. It is proposed that $π^{\pm}$ and $K^{\pm}$ external beams be provided from CERN-LHC, so that their elastic scattering from protons can be studied at higher energies. Our phenomenology for $p p$ and $\bar p p$ elastic scattering is updated by including new data and we give predictions for future experiments at BNL-RHIC and CERN-LHC.

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arXiv1995

Further experimental tests for simple relations between unpolarized and polarized quark parton distributions

Some simple relations between unpolarized and polarized quark parton distributions have direct experimental consequences which will be presented here. In particular, we will see that it is possible to relate the deep inelastic structure functions $F_2$ and $g_1$, both for proton and deuteron, in fair agreement with experimental data.

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arXiv1995

PHENOMENOLOGICAL APPROACH TO UNPOLARIZED AND POLARIZED PARTON DISTRIBUTIONS AND EXPERIMENTAL TESTS

We recall our recent description of quark parton densities of the proton at $Q^2=4 GeV^2$ in terms of Fermi-Dirac distributions parametrized with very few free parameters. We have also proposed some simple assumptions to relate unpolarized and polarized quark parton densities which lead to a fair description of the spin-dependent structure functions $xg^p_1(x,Q^2)$ and $xg^n_1(x,Q^2)$ at low $Q^2$. We will show the predictions we obtain after a straightforward DGLAP $Q^2$ evolution and comparison in a much broader $x$ and $Q^2$ range, with several recent and accurate deep-inelastic scattering data. In particular, we will see that we get an excellent agreement with the sharp rise of $F^{ep}_2(x,Q^2)$ for small $x$, recently observed at HERA. Finally, we give several predictions for lepton pair and gauge boson production in $pp$ and $pn$ collisions at high energies which will be tested in the future at RHIC.

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arXiv1994

Parton Distributions from W+- and Z Production in Polarized pp and pn Collisions at RHIC

We study the production of $W^{\pm}$ and $Z$ gauge bosons in proton-proton and proton-neutron collisions up to a center-of-mass energy $\sqrt s=0.5\ TeV$, in connection with the realistic possibility of having proton-deuteron collisions at RHIC with a high luminosity. We stress the importance of measuring unpolarized cross sections for a better determination of the flavor asymmetry of the sea quarks. Since polarized proton beams will be available at RHIC, we evaluate several spin-dependent observables like, double helicity asymmetries $A_{LL}$ as a test of the sea quark polarization, double transverse spin asymmetries $A_{TT}$ as a practical way to determine a new structure function, the nucleon transversity distribution $h_1(x)$, and parity-violating asymmetries $A_L$ as a further test of our present knowledge of polarized parton distributions.

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