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The Inverse Amplitude Method and Adler Zeros
The Inverse Amplitude Method is a powerful unitarization technique to enlarge
the energy applicability region of Effective Lagrangians. It has been widely
used to describe resonances from Chiral Perturbation Theory as well as for the
Strongly Interacting Symmetry Breaking Sector. In this work we show how it can
be slightly modified to account also for the sub-threshold region,
incorporating correctly the Adler zeros required by chiral symmetry and
eliminating spurious poles. These improvements produce negligible effects on
the physical region.Comment: 17 pages, 4 figure
Gender-related biases in admission decisions
Journal ArticleThe competitive admission process for educational programs in health sciences usually begins with a screening phase. Raters, who are often the same people who later interview the applicants, screen candidates based on information on their application forms. Only the applicants who survive the screening phase progress to the interview phase
Nature of the f_0(600) from its N_c dependence at two loops in unitarized Chiral Perturbation Theory
By using unitarized two-loop Chiral Perturbation Theory partial waves to
describe pion-pion scattering we find that the dominant component of the
lightest scalar meson does not follow the q-qbar dependence on the number of
colors that, in contrast, is obeyed by the lightest vectors. The method
suggests that a subdominant q-qbar component of the f_0(600) possibly
originates around 1 GeV.Comment: 4 pages, 1 Figure. To appear in Phys. Rev. Let
Comment on Neutron-Proton Spin-Correlation Parameter A_{ZZ} at 68 Mev
We present two arguments indicating that the large value for the
mixing parameter at 50 MeV, which the Basel group extracted from their recent
measurement, may be incorrect. First, there are nucleon-nucleon (NN)
potentials which predict the at 50 MeV substantially below the
Basel value and reproduce the Basel data accurately. Second, the large
value for at 50 MeV proposed by the Basel group can only be
explained by a model for the NN interaction which is very unrealistic (no
-meson and essentially a point-like vertex) and overpredicts the
in the energy range where it is well determined (150--500 MeV) by
a factor of two.Comment: 6 pages text (LaTex) and 2 figures (paper, will be faxed upon
request), UI-NTH-930
A Study in Depth of f0(1370)
Claims have been made that f0(1370) does not exist. The five primary sets of
data requiring its existence are refitted. Major dispersive effects due to the
opening of the 4pi threshold are included for the first time; the sigma -> 4pi
amplitude plays a strong role. Crystal Barrel data on pbar-p -> 3pizero at rest
require f0(1370) signals of at least 32 and 33 standard deviations in 1S0 and
3P1 annihilation respectively. Furthermore, they agree within 5 MeV for mass
and width. Data on pbar-p -> eta-eta-pizero agree and require at least a 19
standard deviation contribution. This alone is sufficient to demonstrate the
existence of f0(1370). BES II data for J/Psi -> phi-pi-pi contain a visible
f0(1370) signal > 8 standard devations. In all cases, a resonant phase
variation is required. The possibility of a second pole in the sigma amplitude
due to the opening of the 4pi channel is excluded. Cern-Munich data for pi-pi
elastic scattering are fitted well with the inclusion of some mixing between
sigma, f0(1370) and f0(1500). The pi-pi widths for f2(1565), rho3(1690),
rho3(1990) and f4(2040) are determined.Comment: 25 pages, 22 figures. Typos corrected in Eqs 2 and 7. Introduction
rewritten. Conclusions unchange
Flatte-like distributions and the a_0(980)/f_0(980) mesons
We explore the features of Flatte-like parametrizations. In particular, we
demonstrate that the large variation in the absolute values of the coupling
constants to the pi-eta (or pi-pi) and KKbar channels for the a_0(980) and
f_0(980) mesons that one can find in the literature can be explained by a
specific scaling behaviour of the Flatte amplitude for energies near the KKbar
threshold. We argue that the ratio of the coupling constants can be much better
determined from a fit to experimental data.Comment: 12 pages, 12 figure
The nature of , , and
Masses and widths of the four light scalar mesons , ,
(980) and (980) may be reproduced in a model where mesons scatter via
a loop. A transition potential is used to couple mesons to
at a radius of fm. Inside this radius, there is an
infinite bare spectrum of confined states, for which a harmonic
oscillator is chosen here. The coupled-channel system approximately reproduces
the features of both light and heavy meson spectroscopy. The generation of
, , and is a balance between attraction
due to the loop and suppression of the amplitudes at the Adler zeros.
Phase shifts increase more rapidly as the coupling constant to the mesons
increases. This leads to resonant widths which decrease with increasing
coupling constant - a characteristically non-perturbative effect.Comment: Plain LaTeX, 10 pages, 3 EPS figures; v2: 11 pages, better-quality
figures, extra references, version accepted for publication in Phys. Lett.
CHIRAL SYMMETRY CONSTRAINTS ON THE INTERACTION WITH THE NUCLEAR PION CLOUD
The real part of the selfenergy for the interaction of the
with the pion nuclear cloud is evaluated in lowest order of chiral perturbation
theory and is found to be exactly zero in symmetric nuclear matter. This
removes uncertainties in that quantity found in former phenomenological
analyses and is supported by present experimental data on nucleus
scattering.Comment: 11 pp, LaTeX file, 4 figures (appended as compressed tar files, uses
epsf.sty
On the precision of the theoretical predictions for pi pi scattering
In a recent paper, Pelaez and Yndurain evaluate some of the low energy
observables of pi pi scattering and obtain flat disagreement with our earlier
results. The authors work with unsubtracted dispersion relations, so that their
results are very sensitive to the poorly known high energy behaviour of the
scattering amplitude. They claim that the asymptotic representation we used is
incorrect and propose an alternative one. We repeat their calculations on the
basis of the standard, subtracted fixed-t dispersion relations, using their
asymptotics. The outcome fully confirms our earlier findings. Moreover, we show
that the Regge parametrization proposed by these authors for the region above
1.4 GeV violates crossing symmetry: Their ansatz is not consistent with the
behaviour observed at low energies.Comment: Added more material, mostly in Sects. 7, 8 and 9, in support of the
same conclusions. Latex, 28 pages, 3 figure
The two-pion spectra for the reaction \pi^- p -> \pi^0\pi^0 n at 38 GeV/c pion momentum and combined analysis of the GAMS, Crystal Barrel and BNL data
We perform the K-matrix analysis of meson partial waves with IJ^{PC}
=00^{++}, 10^{++}, 02^{++}, 12^{++} basing on GAMS data on \pi^-p -> \pi^0\pi^0
n, \eta\eta n, \eta\eta' n together with BNL data on \pi^-p -> K\bar K n and
Crystal Barrel data on p\bar p (at rest) -> \pi^0\pi^0\pi^0, \pi^0\eta\eta,
\pi^0\pi^0\eta. The positions of the amplitude poles (physical resonances) are
determined as well as the positions of the K-matrix poles (bare states) and the
values of bare state couplings to two-meson channels. Nonet classification of
the determined bare states is discussed.Comment: LaTex, 15 pages and 10 figure
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