478 research outputs found
Hadronic Decays of Excited Heavy Mesons
We studied the hadronic decays of excited states of heavy mesons (D, D_s, B
and B_s) to lighter states by emission of pi, eta or K. Wavefunctions and
energy levels of these excited states are determined using a Dirac equation for
the light quark in the potential generated by the heavy quark (including first
order corrections in the heavy quark expansion). Transition amplitudes are
computed in the context of the Heavy Chiral Quark Model.Comment: 4 pages (incl. figures), proceedings of the IV International
Conference on "Hyperons, Charm and Beauty Hadrons", Valencia (Spain
First measurement of the spectral function at high energy and momentum in medium-heavy nuclei
The experiment E97-006 was performed at Jefferson Lab to measure the momentum
and energy distribution of protons in the nucleus far from the region of the
(approximate) validity of the mean field description, i.e. at high momentum and
energies. The occurrence of this strength is long known from occupation numbers
less than one. In the experiment reported here this strength was directly
measured for the first time. The results are compared to modern many-body
theories. Further the transparency factor of C12 was determined in the
Q^2-region of 0.6 to 1.8 (GeV/c)^2.Comment: Proceeding for Fourth International Workshop on Neutrino-Nucleus
Interactions in the Few-GeV Region 26.-29. Sept. 2005, Okayam
The 2p-2h electromagnetic response in the quasielastic peak and beyond
The contribution to the nuclear transverse response function R_T arising from
two particle-two hole (2p-2h) states excited through the action of
electromagnetic meson exchange currents (MEC) is computed in a fully
relativistic framework. The MEC considered are those carried by the pion and by
Delta degrees of freedom, the latter being viewed as a virtual nucleonic
resonance. The calculation is performed in the relativistic Fermi gas model in
which Lorentz covariance can be maintained. All 2p-2h many-body diagrams
containing two pionic lines that contribute to R_T are taken into account and
the relative impact of the various components of the MEC on R_T is addressed.
The non-relativistic limit of the MEC contributions is also discussed and
compared with the relativistic results to explore the role played by relativity
in obtaining the 2p-2h nuclear response.Comment: 27 pages, 12 figures, revtex4; minor modifications in the discussion
of the results, references adde
Asymmetric relativistic Fermi gas model for quasielastic lepton-nucleus scattering
We develop an asymmetric relativistic Fermi gas model for the study of the electroweak nuclear response in
the quasielastic region. The model takes into account the differences between neutron and proton densities in
asymmetric (N>Z) nuclei, as well as differences in the neutron and proton separation energies. We present
numerical results for both neutral and charged-current processes, focusing on nuclei of interest for ongoing and
future neutrino oscillation experiments. We point out some important differences with respect to the commonly
employed symmetric Fermi gas model.University of Turin BARM-RILO-17Junta de Andalucía FQM160Spanish Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad and ERDF (European Regional Development Fund) FIS2014-53448-C2-1, FIS2017-88410-
Origin of Relativistic Effects in the Reaction D(e,e'p)n at GeV Energies
In a series of recent publications, a new approach to the non-relativistic
reduction of the electromagnetic current operator in calculations of
electro-nuclear reactions has been introduced. In one of these papers, the
conjecture that at energies of a few GeV, the bulk of the relativistic effects
comes from the current and not from the nuclear dynamics was made, based on the
large relativistic effects in the transverse-longitudinal response. Here, we
explicitly compare a fully relativistic, manifestly covariant calculation
performed with the Gross equation, with a calculation that uses a
non-relativistic wave function and a fully relativistic current operator. We
find very good agreement up to missing momenta of 400 MeV/c, thus confirming
the previous conjecture. We discuss slight deviations in cross sections for
higher missing momenta and their possible origin, namely p-wave contributions
and off-shell effects.Comment: 25 pages, 11 figure
Role of 2p-2h MEC excitations in superscaling
Following recent studies of inclusive electron scattering from nuclei at high
energies which focused on two-nucleon emission mediated by meson-exchange
currents, in this work the superscaling behavior of such contributions is
investigated. Comparisons are made with existing data below the quasielastic
peak where at high momentum transfers scaling of the second kind is known to be
excellent and scaling of the first kind is good, in the proximity of the peak
where both 1p-1h and 2p-2h contributions come into play, and above the peak
where inelasticity becomes important and one finds scaling violations of the
two kinds.Comment: 27 pages, 12 figures; references adde
Meson-exchange currents and quasielastic neutrino cross sections in the SuperScaling Approximation model
We evaluate the quasielastic double differential neutrino cross sections
obtained in a phenomenological model based on the superscaling behavior of
electron scattering data. We compare our results with the recent experimental
data for neutrinos of MiniBooNE and estimate the contribution of the vector
meson-exchange currents in the 2p-2h sector.Comment: 6 pages, 4 figure
Glauber theory of initial- and final-state interactions in (p,2p) scattering
We develop the Glauber theory description of initial- and final-state
interactions (IFSI) in quasielastic A(p,2p) scattering. We study the
IFSI-distortion effects both for the inclusive and exclusive conditions. In
inclusive reaction the important new effect is an interaction between the two
sets of the trajectories which enter the calculation of IFSI-distorted one-body
density matrix for inclusive (p,2p) scattering and are connected with
incoherent elastic rescatterings of the initial and final protons on spectator
nucleons. We demonstrate that IFSI-distortions of the missing momentum
distribution are large over the whole range of missing momentum both for
inclusive and exclusive reactions and affect in a crucial way the
interpretation of the BNL data on (p,2p) scattering. Our numerical results show
that in the region of missing momentum p_{m}\lsim 100-150 MeV/c the
incoherent IFSI increase nuclear transparency by 5-10\%. The incoherent IFSI
become dominant at p_{m}\gsim 200 MeV/c.Comment: Accepted in Z. Phys.A, Latex, 26 pages, uuencoded 9 figure
Do final state interactions obscure short range correlation effects in quasielastic scattering?
Are short range correlations in the ground state of the target nucleus
(initial state correlations ISC)observable inexperiments on quasielastic
scattering at large missing momentum ? Will the missing
momentum spectrum observed at CEBAF be overwhelmed by final state interactions
of the struck proton? Taking the nucleus with a realistic model wave
function for a testing ground, we present a full calculation of the missing
momentum distribution in inclusive scattering. We find a
complex interplay and strong quantum-mechanical interference of FSI and ISC
contributions to scattering at large , with drastic change of the
interference pattern from the (anti)parallel to transverse kinematics. We show
that in all the kinematical conditions, for missing momenta p_{m}\gsim
1\,fm, quasielastic scattering is dominated by FSI effects and the
sensitivity to details of the nuclear ground state is lost. The origin of the
FSI dominance is well understood and can be traced back to the anisotropic
behaviour of FSI which is long ranged in the longitudinal direction and short
ranged in the transverse direction in the opposite to the short ranged ground
state correlations
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