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Strangeness magnetic form factor of the proton in the extended chiral quark model
Background: Unravelling the role played by nonvalence flavors in baryons is
crucial in deepening our comprehension of QCD. Strange quark, a component of
the higher Fock states in baryons, is an appropriate tool to investigate
nonperturbative mechanisms generated by the pure sea quark.
Purpose: Study the magnitude and the sign of the strangeness magnetic moment
and the magnetic form factor () of the proton.
Methods: Within an extended chiral constituent quark model, we investigate
contributions from all possible five-quark components to and in the four-vector momentum range (GeV/c). Probability
of the strangeness component in the proton wave function is calculated
employing the model.
Results: Predictions are obtained without any adjustable parameters.
Observables and are found to be small and negative,
consistent with the lattice-QCD findings as well as with the latest data
released by the PVA4 and HAPPEX Collaborations.
Conclusions: Due to sizeable cancelations among different configurations
contributing to the strangeness magnetic moment of the proton, it is
indispensable to (i) take into account all relevant five-quark components and
include both diagonal and non-diagonal terms, (ii) handle with care the
oscillator harmonic parameter and the component
probability.Comment: References added, typos corrected, accepted for publication by Phys.
Rev.
Intrinsic charm content of the nucleon and charmness-nucleon sigma term
In the extended chiral constituent quark model, the intrinsic
content of the nucleon is investigated. The probabilities of the
quark-antiquark components in the nucleon wave functions are calculated by
taking the nucleon to be admixtures of three- and five-quark components, with
the relevant transitions handled {\it via} the P mechanism.
Predictions for the probability of the in the nucleon wave function
and the charmness-nucleon sigma term are presented. Our numerical results turn
out to be consistent with the predictions from various other approaches
reported in the literature.Comment: Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev.
Cosmological and Solar-System Tests of f(R) Modified Gravity
We investigate the cosmological and the local tests of the f(R) theory of
modified gravity via the observations of (1) the cosmic expansion and (2) the
cosmic structures and via (3) the solar-system experiments. To fit the possible
cosmic expansion histories under consideration, for each of them we reconstruct
f(R), known as "designer f(R)". We then test the designer f(R) via the
cosmic-structure constraints on the metric perturbation ratio Psi/Phi and the
effective gravitational coupling G_eff and via the solar-system constraints on
the Brans-Dicke theory with the chameleon mechanism. We find that among the
designer f(R) models specified by the CPL effective equation of state w_eff,
only the model closely mimicking general relativity with a cosmological
constant (LambdaCDM) can survive all the tests. Accordingly, these tests rule
out the frequently studied "w_eff = -1" designer f(R) models which are distinct
in cosmic structures from LambdaCDM. When considering only the cosmological
tests, we find that the surviving designer f(R) models, although exist for a
variety of w_eff, entail fine-tuning.Comment: 22 pages, 9 figures, LaTe
In situ correction of liquid meniscus in cell culture imaging system based on parallel Fourier ptychographic microscopy (96 Eyes)
We collaborated with Amgen and spent five years in designing and fabricating next generation multi-well plate imagers based on Fourier ptychographic microscopy (FPM). A 6-well imager (Emsight) and a low-cost parallel microscopic system (96 Eyes) based on parallel FPM were reported in our previous work. However, the effect of liquid meniscus on the image quality is much stronger than anticipated, introducing obvious wavevector misalignment and additional image aberration. To this end, an adaptive wavevector correction (AWC-FPM) algorithm and a pupil recovery improvement strategy are presented to solve these challenges in situ. In addition, dual-channel fluorescence excitation is added to obtain structural information for microbiologists. Experiments are demonstrated to verify their performances. The accuracy of angular resolution with our algorithm is within 0.003 rad. Our algorithms would make the FPM algorithm more robust and practical and can be extended to other FPM-based applications to overcome similar challenges
Strong decays of in an extended chiral quark model
The strong decays of the resonance are investigated in an
extended chiral quark model by including the low-lying components
in addition to the component. The results show that these five-quark
components in contribute significantly to the and decays. The contributions to the decay
come from both the lowest energy and the next-to-lowest energy five-quarks
components, while the contributions to the decay come from only the
latter one. Taking these contributions into account, the description for the
strong decays of is improved, especially, for the puzzling large
ratio of the decays to and .Comment: 6 pages, 1 figur
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