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Implication of BaBar's new data on the and
The strong decays of the and are investigated
in the framework of the model. Its decay properties newly reported by
the BaBar Collaboration can be reasonably accounted for in the presence of the
being a mixture of the and . The
orthogonal partner of the is expected to have a mass of about
GeV in quark models and a width of about MeV in the
model. The predicted decay properties turn out to be consistent with
the BaBar's new data in both the orthogonal partner of the and
the interpretations for the . The available
experimental information is not enough to distinguish these two possibilities.
The radiative transitions of the and are
also studied. We tend to conclude that the can be identified as
a mixture of the and , and the
could be either the orthogonal partner of the or the . Further experimental information on the in the
, , and channels is needed.Comment: 13 pages, 2 figures, version accepted for publication in Phys. Rev.
Properties of the scalar mesons , and
In the three-state mixing framework, considering the possible glueball
components of and , we investigate the hadronic decays of
, and into two pseudoscalar mesons. The
quarkonia-glueball content of the three states is determined from the fit to
the new data presented by the WA102 Collaboration. We find that these data are
insensitive to the possible glueball components of and .
Furthermore, we discuss some properties of the mass matrix describing the
mixing of the isoscalar scalar mesons.Comment: Latex 14 pages including 1 eps figur
The kHz QPOs as a probe of the X-ray color-color diagram and accretion-disk structure for the atoll source 4U 1728-34
We have taken the kHz QPOs as a tool to probe the correlation between the
tracks of X-ray color-color diagram (CCD) and magnetosphere-disk positions for
the atoll source 4U 1728-34, based on the assumptions that the upper kHz QPO is
ascribed to the Keplerian orbital motion and the neutron star (NS)
magnetosphere is defined by the dipole magnetic field. We find that from the
island to the banana state, the inner accretion disk gradually approaches the
NS surface with the radius decreasing from r ~33.0km to ~15.9 km, corresponding
to the magnetic field from B(r) ~4.8*10^6 G to ~4.3*10^7 G. In addition, we
note the characteristics of some particular radii of magnetosphere-disk -r are:
firstly, the whole atoll shape of the CCD links the disk radius range of ~15.9
- 33.0 km, which is just located inside the corotation radius of 4U 1728-34
-r_co ( ~34.4 km), implying that the CCD shape is involved in the NS spin-up
state. Secondly, the island and banana states of CCD correspond to the two
particular boundaries: (I)-near the corotation radius at r ~27.2 - 33.0 km,
where the source lies in the island state; (II)-near the NS surface at r ~15.9
- 22.3 km, where the source lies in both the island and banana states. Thirdly,
the vertex of the atoll shape in CCD, where the radiation transition from the
hard to soft photons occurs, is found to be near the NS surface at r ~16.4 km.
The above results suggest that both the magnetic field and accretion
environment are related to the CCD structure of atoll track, where the
corotation radius and NS hard surface play the significant roles in the
radiation distribution of atoll source.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figures, 1 table, accepted by Astronomy & Astrophysic
Capillarity-driven dynamics of water–alcohol mixtures in nanofluidic channels
We investigated the spontaneous capillarity-driven filling of nanofluidic channels with a thickness of 6 and 16 nm using mixtures of ethanol and water of variable composition. To improve the visibility of the fluid, we embedded metal mirrors into the top and bottom walls of the channels that act as a Fabry–Pérot interferometer. The motion of propagating liquid–air menisci was monitored for various concentrations in transmission with an optical microscope. In spite of the visible effects of surface roughness and different affinity of water and ethanol to the channel walls, the dynamics followed the classical t 1/2—dependence according to Lucas and Washburn. While the prefactor of this algebraic relation falls short of the expectations based on bulk properties by 10–30%, the relative variation between mixtures of different composition follows the expectations based on the bulk surface tension and viscosity, implying that—despite the small width of the channels and the large surface-to-volume ratio—specific adsorption or chemical selectivity effects are not relevant. We briefly discuss the impact of surface roughness on our experimental results
The observed by the BES Collaboration
In the framework of the meson decay model, the strong decays of the
and states are investigated. It is found that in
the presence of the initial state mass being 2.24 GeV, the total widths of the
and states are about 438 MeV and 125 MeV,
respectively. Also, when the initial state mass varies from 2220 to 2400 MeV,
the total width of the state varies from about 100 to 132
MeV, while the total width of the state varies from about
400 to 594 MeV. A comparison of the predicted widths and the experimental
result of GeV, the width of the
with a mass of GeV recently observed by the
BES Collaboration in the radiative decay , suggests that it would be very difficult to identify the
as the state, and the seams a
good candidate for the state.Comment: 14 pages, 3 figures, typos corrected, Accepted by Physical Review
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