506 research outputs found
New approach to He charge distribution
We present a study of the He charge distribution based on realistic
nucleonic wave functions and incorporation of the nucleon's quark substructure.
The central depression of the proton point density seen in modern four-body
calculations is too small by itself to lead to a correct description of the
charge distribution. We utilize six-quark structures calculated in the
Chromodielectric Model for N-N interactions, and we find a swelling of the
proton charge distribution as the internucleon distance decreases. These charge
distributions are combined with the He wave function using the Independent
Pair Approximation and two-body distributions generated from Green's Function
Monte Carlo calculations. We obtain a reasonably good fit to the experimental
charge distribution without including meson exchange currents.Comment: 9 pages, LaTeX, 4 figures (Figures 1 and 2 doesn't exist as
postscript files : they are only available on request
Value-at-risk forecasting of the CARBS Indices
Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to use calibrated univariate GARCH family models to forecast volatility and value at risk (VaR) of the CARBS indices and a global minimum variance portfolio (GMVP) constructed using the CARBS equity indices. the reliability of the different volatility forecasts are tested using the mean absolute error (MAE) and the mean squared error (MSE). The rolling forecast of VaR is tested using a back-testing procedure. The results indicate that the use of a rolling forecast from a GARCH model when estimating VaR for the CARBS indices and the GMVP is not a reliable method
The reaction ppbar -> Lambda_c-Lambda_cbar close to threshold
Predictions for the charm-production reaction antiproton-proton ->
antiLambda_c-Lambda_c for energies near the threshold are presented. The
calculations are performed in a meson-exchange framework in close analogy to
our earlier study on antiproton-proton -> antiLambda-Lambda by connecting the
two processes via SU(4) symmetry. The obtained antiLambda_c-Lambda_c production
cross sections are in the order of 1 to 7 \mub, i.e. a factor of around 10
smaller than the corresponding cross sections for antiLambda-Lambda. However,
they are 100 to 1000 times larger than predictions of other model calculations
in the literature.Comment: 12 pages, 4 figure
Measurement of Spin Transfer Observables in Antiproton-Proton -> Antilambda-Lambda at 1.637 GeV/c
Spin transfer observables for the strangeness-production reaction
Antiproton-Proton -> Antilambda-Lambda have been measured by the PS185
collaboration using a transversely-polarized frozen-spin target with an
antiproton beam momentum of 1.637 GeV/c at the Low Energy Antiproton Ring at
CERN. This measurement investigates observables for which current models of the
reaction near threshold make significantly differing predictions. Those models
are in good agreement with existing measurements performed with unpolarized
particles in the initial state. Theoretical attention has focused on the fact
that these models produce conflicting predictions for the spin-transfer
observables D_{nn} and K_{nn}, which are measurable only with polarized target
or beam. Results presented here for D_{nn} and K_{nn} are found to be in
disagreement with predictions from existing models. These results also
underscore the importance of singlet-state production at backward angles, while
current models predict complete or near-complete triplet-state dominance.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figure
Parton Distributions for the Octet and Decuplet Baryons
We calculate the parton distributions for both polarized and unpolarized
octet and decuplet baryons, using the MIT bag, dressed by mesons. We show that
the hyperfine interaction responsible for the and splittings leads to large deviations from SU(3) and SU(6) predictions.
For the we find significant polarized, non-strange parton
distributions which lead to a sizable polarization in polarized,
semi-inclusive scattering. We also discuss the flavour symmetry violation
arising from the meson-cloud associated with the chiral structure of baryons.Comment: 29 pages, 15 figure
Lambda Polarization in Polarized Proton-Proton Collisions at RHIC
We discuss Lambda polarization in semi-inclusive proton-proton collisions,
with one of the protons longitudinally polarized. The hyperfine interaction
responsible for the - and - mass splittings gives
rise to flavor asymmetric fragmentation functions and to sizable polarized
non-strange fragmentation functions. We predict large positive Lambda
polarization in polarized proton-proton collisions at large rapidities of the
produced Lambda, while other models, based on SU(3) flavor symmetric
fragmentation functions, predict zero or negative Lambda polarization. The
effect of and decays is also discussed. Forthcoming
experiments at RHIC will be able to differentiate between these predictions.Comment: 18 pages, 5 figure
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