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Negative Parity Baryons in the QCD Sum Rule
Masses and couplings of the negative parity excited baryons are studied in
the QCD sum rule. Separation of the negative-parity spectrum is proposed and is
applied to the flavor octet and singlet baryons. We find that the quark
condensate is responsible for the mass splitting of the ground and the
negative-parity excited states. This is expected from the chiral symmetry and
supports the idea that the negative-parity baryon forms a parity doublet with
the ground state. The meson-baryon coupling constants are also computed for the
excited states in the QCD sum rule. It is found that the \pi NN^* coupling
vanishes in the chiral limit.Comment: 13pp, LaTeX, 1 EPS figure, uses epsf.sty, Talk given by M.O. at
CEBAF/INT workshop "N* physics", Seattle, September (1996), to appear in the
proceeding
Determination of the axial coupling constant in the linear representations of chiral symmetry
If a baryon field belongs to a certain linear representation of chiral
symmetry of , the axial coupling constant can be
determined algebraically from the commutation relations derived from the
superconvergence property of pion-nucleon scattering amplitudes. This
establishes an algebraic explanation for the values of of such as the
non-relativistic quark model, large- limit and the mirror assignment for
two chiral partner nucleons. For the mirror assignment, the axial charges of
the positive and negative parity nucleons have opposite signs. Experiments of
eta and pion productions are proposed in which the sign difference of the axial
charges can be observed.Comment: 7 pages, proceedings for EMI int. conf. at RCNP, Dec. 200
Chiral symmetry aspects of positive and negative parity baryons
Chiral symmetry aspects for baryon properties are studied. After a brief
discussion on general framework, we introduce two distinctive chiral group
representations for baryons: the naive and mirror assignments. Using linear
sigma models, nucleon properties are studied in both representations. Finally,
we propose an experiment to distinguish the two assignments in the reactions of
pion and eta productions.Comment: PTPTeX 12 pages, Proceedings for the YITP-RCNP workshop Chiral
Restoration in Nuclear Medium, Kyoto, October 200
Quantum description for a chiral condensate disoriented in a certain direction in isospace
We derive a quantum state of the disoriented chiral condensate dynamically,
considering small quantum fluctuations around a classical chiral condensate
disoriented in a certain direction in isospace. The obtained
nonisosinglet quantum state has the characteristic features; (i) it has the
form of the squeezed state, (ii) the state contains not only the component of
pion quanta in the direction but also the component in the
perpendicular direction to and (iii) the low momentum pions in the
state violate the isospin symmetry. With the quantum state, we calculate the
probability of the neutral fraction depending on the time and the pion's
momentum, and find that the probability has an unfamiliar form. For the low
momentum pions, the parametric resonance mechanism works with the result that
the probability of the neutral fraction becomes the well known form
approximately and that the charge fluctuation is small.Comment: 19 page
Electron Acceleration by Multi-Island Coalescence
Energetic electrons of up to tens of MeV are created during explosive
phenomena in the solar corona. While many theoretical models consider magnetic
reconnection as a possible way of generating energetic electrons, the precise
roles of magnetic reconnection during acceleration and heating of electrons
still remain unclear. Here we show from 2D particle-in-cell simulations that
coalescence of magnetic islands that naturally form as a consequence of tearing
mode instability and associated magnetic reconnection leads to efficient
energization of electrons. The key process is the secondary magnetic
reconnection at the merging points, or the `anti-reconnection', which is, in a
sense, driven by the converging outflows from the initial magnetic reconnection
regions. By following the trajectories of the most energetic electrons, we
found a variety of different acceleration mechanisms but the energization at
the anti-reconnection is found to be the most important process. We discuss
possible applications to the energetic electrons observed in the solar flares.
We anticipate our results to be a starting point for more sophisticated models
of particle acceleration during the explosive energy release phenomena.Comment: 14 pages, 12 figures (degraded figure quality), 1 table. Accepted for
publication in ApJ
Parametric resonance at the critical temperature in high energy heavy ion collisions
Parametric resonance in soft modes at the critical temperature () in
high energy heavy ion collisions is studied in the case when the temperature
() of the system is almost constant for a long time. By deviding the fields
into three parts, zero mode (condensate), soft modes and hard modes and
assuming that the hard modes are in thermal equilibrium, we derive the equation
of motion for soft modes at . Enhanced modes are extracted by
comparing with the Mathieu equation for the condensate oscillating along the
sigma axis at . It is found that the soft mode of fields at
about 174 MeV is enhanced.Comment: 8 pages, 1 figure Some statements and equations are modified to
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