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Demonstration of a collisionally excited optical-field-ionization XUV laser driven in a plasma waveguide

Physical Review Letters 91 (2003) article 205001 4 pages

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SM Hooker, Arthur Butler, Anthony J. Gonsalves, Claire M. McKenna
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Molecular-dynamic calculation of the relaxation of the electron energy distribution function in a plasma.

Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys 68:5 Pt 2 (2003) 056401

Authors:

N David, SM Hooker

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A molecular-dynamic (MD) code is used to calculate the temporal evolution of nonequilibrium electron distribution functions in plasmas. To the authors' knowledge, this is the first time that a molecular-dynamic code has been used to treat this problem using a macroscopic number of particles. The code belongs to the class of P3M (particle-particle-particle-mesh) codes. Since the equations solved by the MD code are fundamental, this approach avoids several assumptions that are inherent to alternative methods. For example, the initial energy distribution can be arbitrary, and there is no need to assume a value for the Coulomb logarithm. The advantages of the MD code are illustrated by comparing its results with those of Monte Carlo and Fokker-Planck codes with a set of plasma parameters for which the Fokker-Planck calculation is shown to give incorrect results. As an example, we calculate the relaxation of the electron energy distribution produced by optical field ionization of a mixed plasma containing argon and hydrogen.
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Measurement of deeply virtual Compton Scattering at HERA

Physics Letters B 573 (2003) 46-62

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B Foster, I. Grabowska-Bold, P.Saull, W.S. Toothacker
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Dijet angular distributions in photoproduction of charm at HERA

Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics 565:1-4 (2003) 87-101

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S Chekanov, M Derrick, D Krakauer, JH Loizides, S Magill, B Musgrave, J Repond, R Yoshida, MCK Mattingly, P Antonioli, G Bari, M Basile, L Bellagamba, D Boscherini, A Bruni, G Bruni, G Cara Romeo, L Cifarelli, F Cindolo, A Contin, M Corradi, S de Pasquale, P Giusti, G Iacobucci, A Margotti, R Nania, F Palmonari, A Pesci, G Sartorelli, A Zichichi, G Aghuzumtsyan, D Bartsch, I Brock, S Goers, H Hartmann, E Hilger, P Irrgang, HP Jakob, A Kappes, UF Katz, O Kind, U Meyer, E Paul, J Rautenberg, R Renner, A Stifutkin, J Tandler, KC Voss, M Wang, A Weber, DS Bailey, NH Brook, JE Cole, B Foster, GP Heath, HF Heath, S Robins, E Rodrigues, J Scott, RJ Tapper, M Wing, M Capua, A Mastroberardino, M Schioppa, G Susinno, JY Kim, YK Kim, JH Lee, IT Lim, MY Pac, A Caldwell, M Helbich, X Liu, B Mellado, Y Ning, S Paganis, Z Ren, WB Schmidke, F Sciulli, J Chwastowski, A Eskreys, J Figiel, K Olkiewicz, P Stopa, L Zawiejski, L Adamczyk, T Bold, I Grabowska-Bold, D Kisielewska, AM Kowal, M Kowal, T Kowalski, M Przybycien, L Suszycki, D Szuba, J Szuba, A Kotański, W Slomiński, LAT Bauerdick, U Behrens

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Dijet angular distributions of photoproduction events in which a D*± meson is produced in association with one of two energetic jets have been measured with the ZEUS detector at HERA, using an integrated luminosity of 120 pb-1. Differential cross sections as a function of the angle between the charm-jet and the proton-beam direction in the dijet rest frame have been measured for samples enriched in direct or resolved photon events. The results are compared with predictions from leading-order parton-shower Monte Carlo models and with next-to-leading-order QCD calculations. The angular distributions show clear evidence for the existence of charm originating from the photon. © 2003 Published by Elsevier B.V.
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Leading proton production in e + p collisions at HERA

Nuclear Physics B 658:1-2 (2003) 3-46

Authors:

S Chekanov, D Krakauer, JH Loizides, S Magill, B Musgrave, J Repond, R Yoshida, MCK Mattingly, P Antonioli, G Anzivino, G Bari, M Basile, L Bellagamba, D Boscherini, A Bruni, G Bruni, G Cara Romeo, M Chiarini, L Cifarelli, F Cindolo, A Contin, M Corradi, S de Pasquale, P Giusti, G Iacobucci, G Levi, A Margotti, T Massam, R Nania, C Nemoz, F Palmonari, A Pesci, G Sartorelli, Y Zamora Garcia, A Zichichi, G Aghuzumtsyan, D Bartsch, I Brock, J Crittenden, S Goers, H Hartmann, E Hilger, P Irrgang, HP Jakob, A Kappes, UF Katz, O Kind, E Paul, J Rautenberg, R Renner, H Schnurbusch, A Stifutkin, J Tandler, KC Voss, M Wang, A Weber, DS Bailey, NH Brook, JE Cole, B Foster, GP Heath, HF Heath, T Namsoo, S Robins, E Rodrigues, M Wing, R Ayad, M Capua, L Iannotti, A Mastroberardino, M Schioppa, G Susinno, JY Kim, YK Kim, JH Lee, IT Lim, MY Pac, A Caldwell, M Helbich, X Liu, B Mellado, Y Ning, S Paganis, Z Ren, WB Schmidke, F Sciulli, J Chwastowski, A Eskreys, J Figiel, K Olkiewicz, P Stopa, L Zawiejski, L Adamczyk, T Bold, I Grabowska-Bold, D Kisielewska, AM Kowal, M Kowal, T Kowalski, M Przybycień

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Events with a final-state proton carrying a large fraction of the proton beam momentum, x L >0.6, and the square of the transverse momentum p T2 <0.5 GeV 2 , have been studied in e + p collisions with the ZEUS detector at HERA. Data with different photon virtualities were used: Q 2 <0.02 GeV 2 , 0.1
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