980 research outputs found

    Stability for Borell-Brascamp-Lieb inequalities

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    We study stability issues for the so-called Borell-Brascamp-Lieb inequalities, proving that when near equality is realized, the involved functions must be L1L^1-close to be pp-concave and to coincide up to homotheties of their graphs.Comment: to appear in GAFA Seminar Note

    The π\pi, K+K^+, and K0K^0 electromagnetic form factors

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    The rainbow truncation of the quark Dyson-Schwinger equation is combined with the ladder Bethe-Salpeter equation for the meson amplitudes and the dressed quark-photon vertex in a self-consistent Poincar\'e-invariant study of the pion and kaon electromagnetic form factors in impulse approximation. We demonstrate explicitly that the current is conserved in this approach and that the obtained results are independent of the momentum partitioning in the Bethe-Salpeter amplitudes. With model gluon parameters previously fixed by the condensate, the pion mass and decay constant, and the kaon mass, the charge radii and spacelike form factors are found to be in good agreement with the experimental data.Comment: 8 pages, 6 figures, Revte

    ηη\eta-\eta^\prime mixing and the next-to-leading-order power correction

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    The next-to-leading-order O(1/Q4)O(1/Q^4) power correction for ηγ\eta\gamma and ηγ\eta^\prime\gamma form factors are evaluated and employed to explore the ηη\eta-\eta^\prime mixing. The parameters of the two mixing angle scheme are extracted from the data for form factors, two photon decay widths and radiative J/ψJ/\psi decays. The χ2\chi^2 analysis gives the result: fη1=(1.16±0.06)fπ,fη8=(1.33±0.23)fπ,θ1=9±3,θ8=21.3±2.3f_{\eta_1}=(1.16\pm0.06)f_\pi, f_{\eta_8}=(1.33\pm0.23)f_\pi, \theta_1=-9^\circ\pm 3^\circ, \theta_8=-21.3^\circ\pm 2.3^\circ, where fη1(8)f_{\eta_{1(8)}} and θ1(8)\theta_{1(8)} are the decay constants and the mixing angles for the singlet (octet) state. In addition, we arrive at a stringent range for fηc:10f_{\eta^\prime}^c:-10 MeVfηc4\le f_{\eta^\prime}^c\le -4 MeV.Comment: 23 pages, 9 figures, To be publshied in Phys. Rev.

    Final-State Phases in BDπ,DπB \to D \pi, D^* \pi, and DρD \rho Decays

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    The final-state phases in BˉDπ,Dπ\bar{B} \to D \pi, D^* \pi, and DρD \rho decays appear to follow a pattern similar to those in DKˉπD \to \bar{K} \pi, Kˉπ\bar{K}^* \pi, and Kˉρ\bar{K} \rho decays. Each set of processes is characterized by three charge states but only two independent amplitudes, so the amplitudes form triangles in the complex plane. For the first two sets the triangles appear to have non-zero area, while for the DρD \rho or Kˉρ\bar{K} \rho decays the areas of the triangles are consistent with zero. Following an earlier discussion of this behavior for DD decays, a similar analysis is performed for B decays, and the relative phases and magnitudes of contributing amplitudes are determined. The significance of recent results on \ob \to D^{(*)0} \bar{K}^{(*)0} is noted. Open theoretical and experimental questions are indicated.Comment: 16 pages, LaTeX, 3 figures, to be submitted to Phys. Rev. D. References added; comments on new experimental results and analysi

    Composition of the Pseudoscalar Eta and Eta' Mesons

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    The composition of the eta and eta' mesons has long been a source of discussion and is of current interest with new experimental results appearing. We investigate what can be learnt from a number of different processes: V to P gamma and P to V gamma (V and P are light vector and pseudoscalar mesons respectively), P to gamma gamma, J/psi,psi' to P gamma, J/psi,psi' to P V, and chi_{c0,2} to PP. These constrain the eta-eta' mixing angle to a consistent value, phi approx 42 degrees; we find that the c cbar components are lesssim 5% in amplitude. We also find that, while the data hint at a small gluonic component in the eta', the conclusions depend sensitively on unknown form factors associated with exclusive dynamics. In addition, we predict BR(psi' to eta' gamma) approx 1 10^{-5} and BR(chi_{c0} to eta eta') approx 2 10^{-5} - 1 10^{-4}. We provide a method to test the mixing using chi_{c2} to eta eta, eta' eta', and eta eta' modes and make some general observations on chi_{c0,2} decays. We also survey the semileptonic and hadronic decays of bottom and charmed mesons and find some modes where the mixing angle can be extracted cleanly with the current experimental data, some where more data will allow this, and some where a more detailed knowledge of the different amplitudes is required.Comment: 34 pages, 11 figures. v2: version published in JHEP, added substantial section on B and D meson electroweak decays, added comment on psi' to eta(')/eta_c gamma, Figs 5 and 6 split and made clearer, added references, other minor revisions which don't change conclusion

    Final-State Phases in Charmed Meson Two-Body Nonleptonic Decays

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    Observed decay rates indicate large phase differences among the amplitudes for the charge states in DKˉπD \to \bar K \pi and DKˉπD \to \bar K^* \pi but relatively real amplitudes in the charge states for DKˉρD \to \bar K \rho. This feature is traced using an SU(3) flavor analysis to a sign flip in the contribution of one of the amplitudes contributing to the latter processes in comparison with its contribution to the other two sets. This amplitude may be regarded as an effect of rescattering and is found to be of magnitude comparable to others contributing to charmed particle two-body nonleptonic decays.Comment: 19 pages, latex, 4 figures, to be submitted to Phys. Rev.

    14Be(p,n)14B reaction at 69 MeV in inverse kinematics

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    A Gamow-Teller (GT) transition from the drip-line nucleus 14Be to 14B was studied via the (p,n) reaction in inverse kinematics using a secondary 14Be beam at 69 MeV/nucleon. The invariant mass method is employed to reconstruct the energy spectrum. A peak is observed at an excitation energy of 1.27(2) MeV in 14B, together with bumps at 2.08 and 4.06(5) MeV. The observed forward peaking of the state at 1.27 MeV and a good description for the differential cross section, obtained with a DWBA calculation provide support for the 1+ assignment to this state. By extrapolating the cross section to zero momentum transfer the GT-transition strength is deduced. The value is found to compare well with that reported in a beta-delayed neutron emission study.Comment: 5 pages, 2 figure

    Closure properties of solutions to heat inequalities

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    We prove that if u1,u2:(0,)×Rd(0,)u_1,u_2 : (0,\infty) \times \R^d \to (0,\infty) are sufficiently well-behaved solutions to certain heat inequalities on Rd\R^d then the function u:(0,)×Rd(0,)u: (0,\infty) \times \R^d \to (0,\infty) given by u1/p=u11/p1u21/p2u^{1/p}=u_1^{1/p_1} * u_2^{1/p_2} also satisfies a heat inequality of a similar type provided 1p1+1p2=1+1p\tfrac{1}{p_1} + \tfrac{1}{p_2} = 1 + \tfrac{1}{p}. On iterating, this result leads to an analogous statement concerning nn-fold convolutions. As a corollary, we give a direct heat-flow proof of the sharp nn-fold Young convolution inequality and its reverse form.Comment: 12 page

    Scale setting for alpha_s beyond leading order

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    We present a general procedure for incorporating higher-order information into the scale-setting prescription of Brodsky, Lepage and Mackenzie. In particular, we show how to apply this prescription when the leading coefficient or coefficients in a series in the strong coupling alpha_s are anomalously small and the original prescription can give an unphysical scale. We give a general method for computing an optimum scale numerically, within dimensional regularization, and in cases when the coefficients of a series are known. We apply it to the heavy quark mass and energy renormalization in lattice NRQCD, and to a variety of known series. Among the latter, we find significant corrections to the scales for the ratio of e+e- to hadrons over muons, the ratio of the quark pole to MSbar mass, the semi-leptonic B-meson decay width, and the top decay width. Scales for the latter two decay widths, expressed in terms of MSbar masses, increase by factors of five and thirteen, respectively, substantially reducing the size of radiative corrections.Comment: 39 pages, 15 figures, 5 tables, LaTeX2

    Nucleon axial and pseudoscalar form factors from the covariant Faddeev equation

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    We compute the axial and pseudoscalar form factors of the nucleon in the Dyson-Schwinger approach. To this end, we solve a covariant three-body Faddeev equation for the nucleon wave function and determine the matrix elements of the axialvector and pseudoscalar isotriplet currents. Our only input is a well-established and phenomenologically successful ansatz for the nonperturbative quark-gluon interaction. As a consequence of the axial Ward-Takahashi identity that is respected at the quark level, the Goldberger-Treiman relation is reproduced for all current-quark masses. We discuss the timelike pole structure of the quark-antiquark vertices that enters the nucleon matrix elements and determines the momentum dependence of the form factors. Our result for the axial charge underestimates the experimental value by 20-25% which might be a signal of missing pion-cloud contributions. The axial and pseudoscalar form factors agree with phenomenological and lattice data in the momentum range above Q^2 ~ 1...2 GeV^2.Comment: 17 pages, 7 figures, 1 tabl
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