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Hadronic physics at KLOE
New KLOE results on scalar mesons, physics and physics
are presented.Comment: 4 pages, 5 postscript figures, contributed to the Proceedings of
CIPANP 2009: 10th Conference on the Intersections of Particle and Nuclear
Physics, San Diego, USA, 26-31 May, 200
A precise new KLOE measurement of with ISR events and determination of contribution to for GeV
The KLOE experiment at the DANE -factory has performed a new
precise measurement of the pion form factor using Initial State Radiation
events, with photons emitted at small polar angle. Results based on an
integrated luminosity of 240 pb and extraction of the
contribution to in the mass range GeV are
presented. The new value of has smaller (30%) statistical and
systematic error and is consistent with the KLOE published value (confirming
the current disagreement between the standard model prediction for and
the measured value).Comment: 5 pages, proceedings for the CIPANP 2009 conferenc
Precision Measurement of KS Meson Lifetime with the KLOE detector
Using a large sample of pure, slow, short lived K0 mesons collected with KLOE
detector at DaFne, we have measured the KS lifetime. From a fit to the proper
time distribution we find tau = (89.562 +- 0.029_stat +- 0.043_syst) ps. This
is the most precise measurement today in good agreement with the world average
derived from previous measurements. We observe no dependence of the lifetime on
the direction of the Ks.Comment: 5 pages, 7 figure
Form factor in K+ --> pi+ pi0 gamma: interference versus direct emission
We analyze the effect of a form factor in the magnetic contribution to K+ -->
pi+ pi0 gamma. We emphasize how this can show up experimentally: in particular
we try to explore the difference between a possible interference contribution
and a form factor in the magnetic part. The form factor used for K+ --> pi+ pi0
gamma is analogous to the one for KL --> pi+ pi- gamma, experimentally well
established.Comment: 9 pages revtex, 10 eps figures; improved presentation of theoretical
and experimental status; refs. adde
Study of pesudoscalar transition form factors within light front quark model
We study the transition form factors of the pesudoscalar mesons (
and ) as functions of the momentum transfer within the
light-front quark model. We compare our results with the recent experimental
data by CELLO, CLEO, BaBar and Belle. By considering the possible uncertainties
from the quark masses, we illustrate that our predicted form factors can fit
with all the data, including those at the large regions.Comment: 10 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev.
Revisiting Charmless Hadronic B_{u,d} Decays in QCD Factorization
Within the framework of QCD factorization (QCDF), we consider two different
types of power correction effects in order to resolve the CP puzzles and rate
deficit problems with penguin-dominated two-body decays of B mesons and
color-suppressed tree-dominated and modes: penguin
annihilation and soft corrections to the color-suppressed tree amplitude. We
emphasize that the electroweak penguin solution to the CP puzzle
via New Physics is irrelevant for solving the CP and rate puzzles related to
tree-dominated decays. While some channels e.g.
need penguin annihilation to
induce the correct magnitudes and signs for their CP violation, some other
decays such as and require the presence of both power corrections to
account for the measured CP asymmetries. In general, QCDF predictions for the
branching fractions and direct CP asymmetries of decays
are in good agreement with experiment. The predictions of pQCD and
soft-collinear effective theory are included for comparison.Comment: 51 pages, 1 figur
CPT and Lorentz violation as signatures for Planck-scale physics
In recent years, the breakdown of spacetime symmetries has been identified as
a promising research field in the context of Planck-scale phenomenology. For
example, various theoretical approaches to the quantum-gravity problem are
known to accommodate minute violations of CPT invariance. This talk covers
various topics within this research area. In particular, some mechanisms for
spacetime-symmetry breaking as well as the Standard-Model Extension (SME) test
framework will be reviewed; the connection between CPT and Lorentz invariance
in quantum field theory will be exposed; and various experimental CPT tests
with emphasis on matter--antimatter comparisons will be discussed.Comment: 6 page
Study of isospin violating excitation in
We study the reaction in the vicinity of mass
region. The isospin-violating excitation is accounted for by two major
mechanisms. One is electromagnetic (EM) transition and the other is strong
isospin violations. For the latter, we consider contributions from the
intermediate hadronic meson loops and - mixing as the major
mechanisms via the and s-channel transitions, respectively. By fitting the
recent KLOE data, we succeed in constraining the model parameters and
extracting the branching ratio. It shows that the
branching ratio is sensitive to the excitation line shape and background
contributions. Some crucial insights into the correlation between isospin
violation and Okubo-Zweig-Iizuka (OZI) rule evading transitions are also
learned.Comment: Revised version to appear in J. Phys.
Constraining Scalar Leptoquarks from the K and B Sectors
Upper bounds at the weak scale are obtained for all
type product couplings of the scalar leptoquark
model which may affect K-K(bar), B_d-B_d(bar), and B_s-B_s(bar)$ mixing, as
well as leptonic and semileptonic K and B decays. Constraints are obtained for
both real and imaginary parts of the couplings. We also discuss the role of
leptoquarks in explaining the anomalously large CP-violating phase in
B_s-B_s(bar) mixing.Comment: 16 pages, 5 figures, more constraints analyzed, added a number of
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Vacuum Properties of Mesons in a Linear Sigma Model with Vector Mesons and Global Chiral Invariance
We present a two-flavour linear sigma model with global chiral symmetry and
vector and axial-vector mesons. We calculate pion-pion scattering lengths and
the decay widths of scalar, vector, and axial-vector mesons. It is demonstrated
that vector and axial-vector meson degrees of freedom play an important role in
these low-energy processes and that a reasonable theoretical description
requires globally chirally invariant terms other than the vector meson mass
term. An important question for meson vacuum phenomenology is the quark content
of the physical scalar f0(600) and a0(980) mesons. We investigate this question
by assigning the quark-antiquark sigma and a0 states of our model with these
physical mesons. We show via a detailed comparison with experimental data that
this scenario can describe all vacuum properties studied here except for the
decay width of the sigma, which turns out to be too small. We also study the
alternative assignment f0(1370) and a0(1450) for the scalar mesons. In this
case the decay width agrees with the experimental value, but the pion-pion
scattering length is too small. This indicates the necessity to
extend our model by additional scalar degrees of freedom.Comment: 22 pages, 6 figure
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