NEW QCD PRODUCTION MECHANISMS FOR HARD PROCESSES AT LARGE-X

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BRODSKY, SJ
HOYER, P
MUELLER, AH
TANG, WK
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[1] COLUMBIA UNIV, DEPT PHYS, NEW YORK, NY 10027 USA
[2] UNIV HELSINKI, DEPT HIGH ENERGY PHYS, SF-00100 HELSINKI 10, FINLAND
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芬兰科学院;
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10.1016/0550-3213(92)90278-J
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O412 [相对论、场论]; O572.2 [粒子物理学];
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We study the QCD production mechanisms for lepton and quark pairs of high mass M that carry a large fraction x of the projectile momentum, We show that the dominant contribution comes from peripheral processes in which low-x spectator quarks interact with the target, with the hardness scale of the collision being given by Q2 = M2(1 - x). In the high-M2 limit with fixed M2(1 - x) we identify new leading-order perturbative contributions from the hadron wave function which involve more than one constituent. These "intrinsic" contributions cannot be expressed in terms of the usual single-parton structure functions, implying a breakdown of QCD factorization. In a numerical study of a simple gauge theory model. we show that such contributions can dominate the standard single-parton factorizable terms. These results appear to explain several anomalies seen in the data: the excess production and the anomalous nuclear-number of dependence of open and bound charm at large x; the "cumulative" effects (x > 1) observed in hadron production from nuclei; and the large target-polarization asymmetry observed for hadron production at high x. The intrinsic multi-parton processes provide new mechanisms for the hadro-production of the J/psi directly in a color-singlet state and also for the production of heavy flavor systems in lepto-production at high momentum.
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