32 research outputs found
A method for detecting appearance in the spectra of quasielastic CC events
A method for detecting the transition \omutau in long-baseline accelerator
experiments, that consists in comparing the far-to-near ratios of the spectra
of quasielastic CC events generated by high- and low-energy beams of muon
neutrinos, is proposed. The test may be accessible to big water Cherenkov
detectors and iron--scintillator calorimeters, and is limited by statistics
rather than systematics.Comment: 10 pages, 4 figure
Emulsion Chamber with Big Radiation Length for Detecting Neutrino Oscillations
A conceptual scheme of a hybrid-emulsion spectrometer for investigating
various channels of neutrino oscillations is proposed. The design emphasizes
detection of leptons by detached vertices, reliable identification of
electrons, and good spectrometry for all charged particles and photons. A
distributed target is formed by layers of low-Z material,
emulsion-plastic-emulsion sheets, and air gaps in which decays are
detected. The tracks of charged secondaries, including electrons, are
momentum-analyzed by curvature in magnetic field using hits in successive thin
layers of emulsion. The leptons are efficiently detected in all major
decay channels, including \xedec. Performance of a model spectrometer, that
contains 3 tons of nuclear emulsion and 20 tons of passive material, is
estimated for different experimental environments. When irradiated by the
beam of a proton accelerator over a medium baseline of km/GeV, the spectrometer will efficiently detect either the \omutau and
\omue transitions in the mass-difference region of eV,
as suggested by the results of LSND. When exposed to the neutrino beam of a
muon storage ring over a long baseline of 10-20 km/GeV, the
model detector will efficiently probe the entire pattern of neutrino
oscillations in the region eV, as
suggested by the data on atmospheric neutrinos.Comment: 34 pages, 8 figure
Spectrum of the Y=2 Pentaquarks
By assuming a mass formula for the spectrum of the Y=2 pentaquarks, where the
chromo-magnetic interaction plays a main role, and identifying the lightest
state with the Theta^+(1540), we predict a spectrum in good agreement with the
few I=0 and I=1 candidates proposed in the past.Comment: 12 pages, 4 figures, LaTe
Chiral doublers of heavy-light baryons
We discuss the consequences of the chiral doubling scenario for baryons built
of heavy and light quarks. In particular, we use the soliton description for
baryons, demonstrating why each heavy-light baryon should be accompanied by the
opposite parity partner. Our argumentation holds both for ordinary baryons and
for exotic heavy pentaquarks which are required by the symmetries of QCD to
appear in parity doublets, seperated by the mass shift of the chiral origin.
Interpreting the recently observed by BaBaR, CLEO and Belle charmed mesons with
assignment as the chiral partners of known and mesons,
allows us to estimate the parameters of the mesonic effective lagrangian, and
in consequence, estimate the masses of ground states and excited states of both
parities. In particular, we interpret the state recently reported by the H1
experiment at HERA as a chiral partner of yet
undiscovered ground state pentaquark .Comment: 10 pages, in v2 some typos corrected, references adde
A Naturally Narrow Positive Parity Theta^+
We present a consistent color-flavor-spin-orbital wave function for a
positive parity Theta^+ that naturally explains the observed narrowness of the
state. The wave function is totally symmetric in its flavor-spin part and
totally antisymmetric in its color-orbital part. If flavor-spin interactions
dominate, this wave function renders the positive parity Theta^+ lighter than
its negative parity counterpart. We consider decays of the Theta^+ and compute
the overlap of this state with the kinematically allowed final states. Our
results are numerically small. We note that dynamical correlations between
quarks are not necessary to obtain narrow pentaquark widths.Comment: 10 pages, 1 figure, Revtex4, two-column format, version to be
published in Phys. Rev. D, includes numerical estimates of decay width
Light-Front Approach for Heavy Pentaquark Transitions
Assuming the two diquark structure for the pentaquark state as advocated in
the Jaffe-Wilczek model, there exist exotic parity-even anti-sextet and
parity-odd triplet heavy pentaquark baryons. The theoretical estimate of
charmed and bottom pentaquark masses is quite controversial and it is not clear
whether the ground-state heavy pentaquark lies above or below the strong-decay
threshold. We study the weak transitions of heavy pentaquark states using the
light-front quark model. In the heavy quark limit, heavy-to-heavy pentaquark
transition form factors can be expressed in terms of three Isgur-Wise
functions: two of them are found to be normalized to unity at zero recoil,
while the third one is equal to 1/2 at the maximum momentum transfer, in
accordance with the prediction of the large-Nc approach or the quark model.
Therefore, the light-front model calculations are consistent with the
requirement of heavy quark symmetry. Numerical results for form factors and
Isgur-Wise functions are presented. Decay rates of the weak decays Theta_b+ to
Theta_c0 pi+ (rho+), Theta_c0 to Theta+ pi- (rho-), Sigma'_{5b}+ to
Sigma'_{5c}0 pi+ (rho+) and Sigma'_{5c}0 to N_8+ pi- (rho-) with Theta_Q,
Sigma'_{5Q} and N_8 being the heavy anti-sextet, heavy triplet and light
octet pentaquarks, respectively, are obtained. For weakly decaying Theta_b+ and
Theta_c0, the branching ratios of Theta_b+ to Theta_c0 pi+, Theta_c0 to Theta+
pi- are estimated to be at the level of 10^{-3} and a few percents,
respectively.Comment: 33 pages, 3 figures, version to be published in Phys. Rev.
Search for the exotic Resonance in 340GeV/c -Nucleus Interactions
We report on a high statistics search for the resonance in
-nucleus collisions at 340GeV/c. No evidence for this resonance is
found in our data sample which contains 676000 candidates above
background. For the decay channel and the
kinematic range 0.150.9 we find a 3 upper limit for the
production cross section of 3.1 and 3.5 b per nucleon for reactions with
carbon and copper, respectively.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures, modification of ref. 43 and 4
Search for a strongly decaying neutral charmed pentaquark
We present a search for a charmed pentaquark decaying strongly to
. Finding no evidence for such a state, we set limits on the cross
section times branching ratio relative to and under particular
assumptions about the production mechanism.Comment: To be published in Physics Letters
Quasielastic axial-vector mass from experiments on neutrino-nucleus scattering
We analyze available experimental data on the total and differential
charged-current cross sections for quasielastic neutrino and antineutrino
scattering off nucleons, measured with a variety of nuclear targets in the
accelerator experiments at ANL, BNL, FNAL, CERN, and IHEP, dating from the end
of sixties to the present day. The data are used to adjust the poorly known
value of the axial-vector mass of the nucleon.Comment: 27 pages, 19 figures. Typos corrected; tables, figures and references
added, discussion extended; matches published versio
Physics with charm particles produced in neutrino interactions. A historical recollection
Results obtained in neutrino unteractions on charm particles are presented