Spectroscopy of B_c Mesons in the Relativized Quark Model

We calculate the spectrum of the charm-beauty mesons using the relativized quark model. Using the wavefunctions from this model we compute the radiative widths of excited c\bar{b} states. The hadronic transition rates between c\bar{b} states are estimated using the Kuang-Yan approach and are combined with the radiative widths to give estimates of the relative branching ratios. These results are combined with production rates at the Tevatron and the LHC to suggest promising signals for excited B_c states. Our results are compared with other models to gauge the reliability of the predictions and point out differences.Comment: 15 pages, 1 fig. uses revtex4. References adde

Radiative proton-antiproton annihilation to a lepton pair

The annihilation of proton and antiproton to electron-positron pair, including radiative corrections due to the emission of virtual and real photons is considered. The results are generalized to leading and next-to leading approximations. The relevant distributions are derived and numerical applications are given in the kinematical range accessible to the PANDA experiment at the FAIR facility.Comment: 2 figure

Bremsstrahlung and pair production processes at low energies, multi-differential cross section and polarization phenomena

Radiative electron-proton scattering is studied in peripheral kinematics, where the scattered electron and photon move close to the direction of the initial electron. Even in the case of unpolarized initial electron the photon may have a definite polarization. The differential cross sections with longitudinally or transversal polarized initial electron are calculated. The same phenomena are considered for the production of an electron-positron pair by the photon, where the final positron (electron) can be also polarized. Differential distributions for the case of polarized initial photon are given. Both cases of unscreened and completely screened atomic targets are considered.Comment: 15 pages, 6 figure

Pairs Emission in a Uniform Background Field: an Algebraic Approach

A fully algebraic general approach is developed to treat the pairs emission and absorption in the presence of some uniform external background field. In particular, it is shown that the pairs production and annihilation operators, together with the pairs number operator, do actually fulfill the SU(2) functional Lie algebra. As an example of application, the celebrated Schwinger formula is consistently and nicely recovered, within this novel approach, for a Dirac spinor field in the presence of a constant and homogeneous electric field in four spacetime dimensions.Comment: 26 pages, no figure

Vector exchanges in production of light meson pairs and elementary atoms

The production of pseudoscalar and scalar mesons pairs and bound states (positronium or pionium atoms) in high energy $\gamma\gamma$ collisions at high energies provided by photon or vector meson exchanges are considered. The vector exchanges lead to nondecreasing with energy cross section of binary process $\gamma+\gamma\to h_a+h_b$ with $h_a, h_b$ states in the fragmentation regions of initial particles. The production of light mesons pairs $\pi\pi, \eta\eta, \eta'\eta', \sigma\sigma$ as well as a pairs of positronium $Ps$ and pionium $A_\pi$ atoms in peripheral kinematics are discussed. Unlike the photon exchange the vector meson exchange needs a reggeization, leading to fall with energy. Nevertheless due to peripheral kinematics out of very forward production angles the vector meson exchanges dominated. The proposed approach allows to express the matrix elements of the considered processes through impact factors, which can be calculated in perturbation models like Chiral Perturbation Theory (ChPT) or Nambu-Jona-Lasinio (NJL) model or determined from $\gamma\gamma$ sub-processes or vector mesons radiative decay widths. We obtain the cross sections for pionium atom production in collisions of high energy pions and electrons with protons. The possibility to measure these processes in experiment are discussed.Comment: 12 pages, 2 figure

Agropyrenol and agropyrenal, phytotoxins from Ascochyta agropyrina var. nana, potential herbicides for Elytrigia repens control

Elytrigia repens L. Desv. ex Nevski (commonly known as quack grass), is a perennial weed widespread through the cold temperate regions all over the world. It is managed only by chemical herbicides1,2 because it easily spreads by seed and rhizomes and produces allelopathic metabolites suppressing the growth of other plants. In surveys carried out with the aim to find pathogens of this species, which could have potential as biological agents for its control, a fungus was isolated from naturally diseased leaves of this species and identified as Ascochyta agropyrina (Fairman) Trotter var. nana Punith. Due to the interest of the authors in studying species belonging to the genus Ascochyta as sources of biologically active metabolites, a previous study led to the isolation of a main phytotoxin from the solid culture of this fungus and to its identification as papyracillic acid.3 On liquid medium A. agropyrina produces different toxins the main one of which, named agropyrenol, was characterized as a new disubstituted benzaldehyde on the basis of its chemical and spectroscopic properties. Other two new minor metabolites were isolated from the same culture and named agropyrenal and agropyrenone, respectively. They were characterized as a trisubstituted naphthalene carbaldehyde and a pentasubstituted 3H-benzofuranone, respectively. When assayed on leaves of some weedy plants, i.e. Mercurialis annua, Chenopodium album and Setaria viridis, agropyrenol proved to be phytotoxic, causing the appearance of necrotic lesions, agropyrenal was less active, while agropyrenone was inactive. None of compounds showed antibiotic, fungicidal or zootoxic activity. In this communication the production, isolation, and chemical and biological characterization of the metabolites produced by A. agropyrina var. nana in liquid culture will be illustrated and their potential as safe herbicides will be discussed

Agropyrenol and agropyrenal, phytotoxins from Ascochyta agropyrina var. nana, a fungal pathogen of Elitrigia repens

A strain of Ascochyta agropyrina var. nana, a fungal pathogen of the perennial weed Elytrigia repens, produced several toxins in a liquid medium, and its primary toxin, named agropyrenol, was characterized as a substituted salicylaldehyde on the basis of its chemical and spectroscopic properties. Its absolute stereochemistry was determined by Mosher’s method. Two other minor metabolites were isolated from the same culture and named agropyrenal and agropyrenone, respectively. They were characterized as a trisubstituted naphthalene carbaldehyde and a pentasubstituted 3H-benzofuranone, respectively, using the same techniques. When assayed on leaves of several weed plants, i.e., Mercurialis annua, Chenopodium album and Setaria viridis, agropyrenol proved to be phytotoxic, causing the appearance of necrotic lesions, agropyrenal was less active, while agropyrenone was inactive. None of the compounds showed antibiotic, fungicidal or zootoxic activit