Parity doubling of highly excited mesons

Glozman has proposed that highly excited mesons and baryons fall into parity doublets, and that the f4(2050) on the leading Regge trajectory should have a nearly degenerate J^{PC} = 4^{-+} partner. A re-analysis of Crystal Barrel data does not support this idea. A likely explanation is that centrifugal barriers on the leading trajectory allow formation of the L=J-1 states, but are too strong to allow L=J states. Two new polarisation experiments have the potential for major progress in meson spectroscopy.Comment: 7 pages, 2 figures, 1 table. Further experimental detail added and additional algebra. Conclusions unchanged. To be published in Physics Letters

Effect of wall roughness on liquid oscillations damping in rectangular tanks

Tests were conducted in two rectangular glass tanks using silicon carbide grit bonded to walls to determine effect of wall roughness for damping liquid oscillations. Tests included effects of roughness height, roughness location, roughness at various values, amplitude decay, Reynolds number, and boundary layer thickness

The kappa in E791 data for D->K-pi-pi

A combined fit is made to E791 data on D->K-pi-pi, LASS data on K-pi elastic scattering, and BES II data on J/Psi->K*(890)-K-pi.In all cases, the K-pi S-wave is fitted well with a kappa resonance and Ko(1430); the kappa requires an s-dependent width with an Adler zero near threshold. The pole position of the kappa is at M - iGamma/2 = (750 +30 -55) - i(342 +- 60) MeV. The E791 collaboration fitted their data using a form factor for the production process D->kappa-pi. It is shown that this form factor is not needed. The data require point-like production with an RMS radius <0.38 fm with 95 percent confidence.Comment: 11 pages, 4 figures. Typos corrected. Material added to explain how a pole is possible without the phase shift on the real s-axis going through 90 degree