620 research outputs found
Two pion electroproduction
We have extended a model for the reaction to virtual
photons and selected the diagrams which have a in the final state. The
agreement found with the and reactions is good. The sensitivity of the results to
transition form factors is also studied. The present reaction,
selecting a particular final state, is an extra test for models of the
amplitude.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures, Talk given at Meson 2000 Workshop, Krakow,
Poland, 19-23 May 200
Radiative production of the Lambda(1405) resonance in K collisions on protons and nuclei
We have carried a theoretical study of the K^- p\to M B \gamma reaction with
M B = K^-p, \bar{K}^0 n, \pi^- \Sigma^+, \pi^+ \Sigma^-, \pi^0 \Sigma^0, \pi^0
\Lambda, for K^- lab. momenta between 200 and 500 MeV/c, using a chiral unitary
approach for the strong K^-p interaction with its coupled channels. The
\Lambda(1405) resonance, which is generated dynamically in this approach, shows
up clearly in the d\sigma/dM_I spectrum, providing new tests for chiral
symmetry and the unitary approach, as well as information regarding the nature
of the resonance. The photon detection alone, summing all channels, is shown to
reproduce quite accurately the strength and shape of the \Lambda(1405)
resonance. Analogous reactions in nuclei can provide much information on the
properties of this resonance in a nuclear medium.Comment: 11 pages, 3 postscripts figure
NMR Time Reversal Experiments in Highly Polarised Liquid 3He-4He Mixtures
Long-range magnetic interactions in highly magnetised liquids
(laser-polarised 3He-4He dilute mixtures at 1 K in our experiment) introduce a
significant non-linear and non-local contribution to the evolution of nuclear
magnetisation that leads to instabilities during free precession. We recently
demonstrated that a multi-echo NMR sequence, based on the magic sandwich pulse
scheme developed for solid-state NMR, can be used to stabilise the
magnetisation against the effect of distant dipolar fields. Here, we report
investigations of echo attenuation in an applied field gradient that show the
potential of this NMR sequence for spin diffusion measurements at high
magnetisation densities.Comment: Accepted for publication in the Journal of Low Temperature Physic
Dynamical meson-baryon resonances with chiral Lagrangians
The s-wave meson-baryon interaction is studied using the lowest-order chiral
Lagrangian in a unitary coupled-channels Bethe-Salpeter equation. In the
strangeness sector the low-energy dynamics leads to the
dynamical generation of the as a state, along with
a good description of the scattering observables. At higher energies,
the is also found to be generated dynamically as a
quasibound state for the first time. For strangeness S=0, it is the
resonance that emerges from the coupled-channels equations,
leading to a satisfactory description of meson-baryon scattering observables in
the energy region around the . We speculate on the possible
dynamical generation of resonances within the chiral sector as
or quasibound states.Comment: 8 pages, 5 figures, Talk given at NSTAR2001, Workshop on the Physics
of Excited Nucleons, Mainz (Germany), March 7-10, to be published in World
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Photoproduction of meson and baryon resonances in a chiral unitary approach
By means of a coupled channel non-perturbative unitary approach, it is
possible to extend the strong constrains of Chiral Perturbation Theory to
higher energies. In particular, it is possible to reproduce the lowest lying
resonances in meson-meson scattering up to 1.2 GeV using the parameters of the
O(p^2) and O(p^4) Chiral Lagrangian. The meson baryon sector can also be
tackled along similar lines. We report on an update of these results showing
some examples of photon induced reactions where the techniques have been
recently applied.Comment: Contribution to the Erice Summer School of Nuclear Physics, 21th
course: Electromagnetic Probes and the Structure of Hadrons and Nuclei
September 17th - 25th, 1999, Erice/Sicily/Ital
Magnetic Field Effects on the 1083 nm Atomic Line of Helium. Optical Pumping of Helium and Optical Polarisation Measurement in High Magnetic Field
The structure of the excited S and P triplet states of He
and He in an applied magnetic field B is studied using different
approximations of the atomic Hamiltonian. All optical transitions (line
positions and intensities) of the 1083 nm S-P transition are
computed as a function of B. The effect of metastability exchange collisions
between atoms in the ground state and in the S metastable state is
studied, and rate equations are derived, for the populations these states in
the general case of an isotopic mixture in an arbitrary field B. It is shown
that the usual spin-temperature description remains valid. A simple optical
pumping model based on these rate equations is used to study the B-dependence
of the population couplings which result from the exchange collisions. Simple
spectroscopy measurements are performed using a single-frequency laser diode on
the 1083 nm transition. The accuracy of frequency scans and of measurements of
transition intensities is studied. Systematic experimental verifications are
made for B=0 to 1.5 T. Optical pumping effects resulting from hyperfine
decoupling in high field are observed to be in good agreement with the
predictions of the simple model. Based on adequately chosen absorption
measurements at 1083 nm, a general optical method to measure the nuclear
polarisation of the atoms in the ground state in an arbitrary field is
described. It is demonstrated at 0.1 T, a field for which the usual
optical methods could not operate.Comment: 33 pages, 31 figures, 17 tables, 61 references. Revised version
(typos corrected, figure 11 replaced by the proper one) Accepted for
publication in EPJ
Study of polarization observables in double pion photoproduction on the proton
Using a model for two pion photoproduction on the proton previously tested in
total cross sections and invariant mass distributions, we evaluate here
polarization observables on which recent experiments are providing new
information. We evaluate cross sections for spin 1/2 and 3/2, which are
measured at Mainz and play an important role in tests of the GHD sum rule.
We also evaluate the proton polarization asymmetry which is
currently under investigation at GRAAL in Grenoble.Comment: 23 pages, 14 ps figure
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