91 research outputs found
Unitary coupled-channels model for three-mesons decays of heavy mesons
A unitary coupled-channels model is presented for investigating the decays of
heavy mesons and excited meson states into three light pseudoscalar mesons. The
model accounts for the three-mesons final state interactions in the decay
processes, as required by both the three-body and two-body unitarity
conditions. In the absence of the Z-diagram mechanisms that are necessary
consequences of the three-body unitarity, our decay amplitudes are reduced to a
form similar to those used in the so-called isobar-model analysis. We apply our
coupled-channels model to the three-pions decays of a1(1260), pi2(1670),
pi2(2100), and D0 mesons, and show that the Z-diagram mechanisms can contribute
to the calculated Dalitz plot distributions by as much as 30% in magnitudes in
the regions where f0(600), rho(770), and f2(1270) dominate the distributions.
Also, by fitting to the same Dalitz plot distributions, we demonstrate that the
decay amplitudes obtained with the unitary model and the isobar model can be
rather different, particularly in the phase that plays a crucial role in
extracting the CKM CP-violating phase from the data of B meson decays. Our
results indicate that the commonly used isobar model analysis must be extended
to account for the final state interactions required by the three-body
unitarity to reanalyze the three-mesons decays of heavy mesons, thereby
exploring hybrid or exotic mesons, and signatures of physics beyond the
standard model.Comment: 32 pages, 10 figures. Version to appear in PR
Observation of a J^PC = 1-+ exotic resonance in diffractive dissociation of 190 GeV/c pi- into pi- pi- pi+
The COMPASS experiment at the CERN SPS has studied the diffractive
dissociation of negative pions into the pi- pi- pi+ final state using a 190
GeV/c pion beam hitting a lead target. A partial wave analysis has been
performed on a sample of 420000 events taken at values of the squared
4-momentum transfer t' between 0.1 and 1 GeV^2/c^2. The well-known resonances
a1(1260), a2(1320), and pi2(1670) are clearly observed. In addition, the data
show a significant natural parity exchange production of a resonance with
spin-exotic quantum numbers J^PC = 1-+ at 1.66 GeV/c^2 decaying to rho pi. The
resonant nature of this wave is evident from the mass-dependent phase
differences to the J^PC = 2-+ and 1++ waves. From a mass-dependent fit a
resonance mass of 1660 +- 10+0-64 MeV/c^2 and a width of 269+-21+42-64 MeV/c^2
is deduced.Comment: 7 page, 3 figures; version 2 gives some more details, data unchanged;
version 3 updated authors, text shortened, data unchange
Leading-order determination of the gluon polarisation from semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering data
Using a novel analysis technique, the gluon polarisation in the nucleon is
re-evaluated using the longitudinal double-spin asymmetry measured in the cross
section of semi-inclusive single-hadron muoproduction with photon virtuality
. The data were obtained by the COMPASS experiment at
CERN using a 160 GeV/ polarised muon beam impinging on a polarised LiD
target. By analysing the full range in hadron transverse momentum ,
the different -dependences of the underlying processes are separated
using a neural-network approach. In the absence of pQCD calculations at
next-to-leading order in the selected kinematic domain, the gluon polarisation
is evaluated at leading order in pQCD at a hard scale of . It is determined in three intervals
of the nucleon momentum fraction carried by gluons, , covering the
range ~ and does not exhibit a significant
dependence on . The average over the three intervals, at
, suggests that the gluon polarisation
is positive in the measured range.Comment: 14 pages, 6 figure
Search for the Phi(1860) Pentaquark at COMPASS
Narrow Xi-pi+- and Xi-bar+pi+- resonances produced by quasi-real photons have
been searched for by the COMPASS experiment at CERN. The study was stimulated
by the recent observation of an exotic baryonic state decaying into Xi-pi-, at
a mass of 1862 MeV, interpreted as a pentaquark. While the ordinary hyperon
states Xi(1530)^0 and Xi-bar(1530)^0 are clearly seen, no exotic baryon is
observed in the data taken in 2002 and 2003.Comment: 10 pages, 5 figure
Light isovector resonances in π-p →π-π-π+p at 190 GeV/c
We have performed the most comprehensive resonance-model fit of π-π-π+ states using the results of our previously published partial-wave analysis (PWA) of a large data set of diffractive-dissociation events from the reaction π-+p→π-π-π++precoil with a 190 GeV/c pion beam. The PWA results, which were obtained in 100 bins of three-pion mass, 0.5<2.5 GeV/c2, and simultaneously in 11 bins of the reduced four-momentum transfer squared, 0.1<1.0 (GeV/c)2, are subjected to a resonance-model fit using Breit-Wigner amplitudes to simultaneously describe a subset of 14 selected waves using 11 isovector light-meson states with JPC=0-+, 1++, 2++, 2-+, 4++, and spin-exotic 1-+ quantum numbers. The model contains the well-known resonances π(1800), a1(1260), a2(1320), π2(1670), π2(1880), and a4(2040). In addition, it includes the disputed π1(1600), the excited states a1(1640), a2(1700), and π2(2005), as well as the resonancelike a1(1420). We measure the resonance parameters mass and width of these objects by combining the information from the PWA results obtained in the 11 t′ bins. We extract the relative branching fractions of the ρ(770)π and f2(1270)π decays of a2(1320) and a4(2040), where the former one is measured for the first time. In a novel approach, we extract the t′ dependence of the intensity of the resonances and of their phases. The t′ dependence of the intensities of most resonances differs distinctly from the t′ dependence of the nonresonant components. For the first time, we determine the t′ dependence of the phases of the production amplitudes and confirm that the production mechanism of the Pomeron exchange is common to all resonances. We have performed extensive systematic studies on the model dependence and correlations of the measured physical parameters
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