Trang Nguyen

Pion and kaon valence-quark parton distribution functions.

A rainbow-ladder truncation of QCDs Dyson-Schwinger equations, constrained by existing applications to hadron physics, is employed to compute the valence-quark parton distribution functions of the pion and kaon. Comparison is made to pi-N Drell-Yan data for the pions u-quark distribution and to Drell-Yan data for the ratio u(K)(x)/u(pi)(x): the environmental influence of this quantity is a parameter-free prediction, which agrees well with existing data. Our analysis unifies the computation of distribution functions with that of numerous other properties of pseudoscalar mesons.

Coherent photoproduction of

Exclusive photoproduction of vector mesons in the perturbative two-gluon exchange formalism depends significantly on nucleon and nuclear gluon distributions. In the present study we calculate total cross sections and rapidity distributions of

\psi

J/\psi(1s)

and

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\Upsilon

\psi(2s)

mesons in ultraperipheral pPb and PbPb collisions at the CERN LHC

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Soft and Hard Scale QCD Dynamics in Mesons

\Upsilon(1s)

QCD dynamics in mesons at soft and hard scales

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Non‐perturbative QCD Modeling and Meson Physics

\Upsilon(2s)

Broadband omnidirectional absorption enhancement of MoS2 monolayers on sub-100-nm-thick SiO2/Si wafers (Conference Presentation)

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