48 research outputs found
Comment on "Polarizability of the pion: No conflict between dispersion theory and chiral perturbation theory"
The statement of the authors of the article Phys. Rev. C 77, 065211 (2008)
that spurious singularities occur in the dispersion relation approach, where
imaginary parts of the amplitudes of the process \gamma\gamma->\pi\pi are
saturated by the contributions of meson resonances by using Breit-Wigner
expressions, is analyzed. It is shown that there are no any additional
singularities in this approach and the disagreement between the predictions of
the dispersion relations and the chiral perturbation theory for
(\alpha_1-\beta_1)_\pi^{\pm} remains.Comment: 3 pages, final version appeared in Phys. Rev.
Magnetic polarizability of hadrons from lattice QCD in the background field method
We present a calculation of hadron magnetic polarizability using the
techniques of lattice QCD. This is carried out by introducing a uniform
external magnetic field on the lattice and measuring the quadratic part of a
hadron's mass shift. The calculation is performed on a lattice with
standard Wilson actions at beta=6.0 (spacing fm) and pion mass down to
about 500 MeV. Results are obtained for 30 particles covering the entire baryon
octet (, , , , , , ,
) and decuplet (, , , ,
, , , , ,
), plus selected mesons (, , , , ,
, , , , , , ). The
results are compared with available values from experiments and other
theoretical calculations.Comment: 30 pages, 23 figures, 5 table
Resonance states below pion-nucleon threshold and their consequences for nuclear systems
Regular sequences of narrow peaks have been observed in the missing mass
spectra in the reactions pp --> p pi^+ X and pd --> ppX_1 below pion-production
threshold. They are interpreted in the literature as manifestations of
supernarrow light dibaryons, or nucleon resonances, or light pions forming
resonance states with the nucleon in its ground state. We discuss how existence
of such exotic states would affect properties of nuclear systems. We show that
the neutron star structure is drastically changed in all three cases. We find
that in the presence of dibaryons or nucleon resonances the maximal possible
mass of a neutron star would be smaller than the observational limit. Presence
of light pions does not contradict the observed neutron star masses. Light
pions allow for the existence of extended nuclear objects of arbitrary size,
bound by strong and electromagnetic forces.Comment: preprint ECT*-02-18, 6 pages, 3 figure
Hadron structure at small momentum transfer
Giving three examples, the form factors of the nucleon, the polarisability of
the charged pion and the interference of the with the
excitation of the nucleon in the -decay channel, it is
argued that the hadron structure at low momentum transfer is highly significant
for studying QCD.Comment: 7 pages, 9 figures. Contribution to the International School of
Nuclear Physics, 29th Ccourse, "Quarks in Hadrons and Nuclei", Erice, Sicily,
16 - 24 September 200
Pionic atoms probing pi-NN resonances
The pion optical potential generated by the hypothetical pi-NN-coupled
NN-decoupled dibaryon resonance d'(2065) is calculated to the lowest order in
nuclear matter density. The contribution to the pion optical potential is found
to be within the empirical errors, so the d'(2065) existence currently does not
contradict to the observed properties of the pi-nucleus bound states. Future
progress in the pionic X-ray spectroscopy can reveal contributions of pi-NN
resonances to energy levels and widths of the pionic atoms.Comment: 3 pages REVTEX, 1 ps figur
Measurement of the pi^+ meson polarizabilities via the gamma p->gamma pi^+ n reaction
An experiment on the radiative pi^+ meson photoproduction from the proton
(gamma p->gamma pi^+ n) was carried out at the Mainz Microtron MAMI in the
kinematic region 537 MeV <E_{gamma}<817 MeV,
140^o<theta_{gamma-gamma'}^cm<180^o. The pi^+ meson polarizabilities have been
determined from a comparison of the data with the predictions of two different
theoretical models, the first one being based on an effective pole model with
pseudoscalar coupling while the second one is based on diagrams describing both
resonant and nonresonant contributions. The validity of the models has been
verified by comparing the predictions with the present experimental data in the
kinematic region where the pion polarizability contribution is negligible
(s_1<5 mu^2) and where the difference between the predictions of the two models
does not exceed 3%. In the region, where the pion polarizability contribution
is substantial (5<s_1/mu^2<15, -12<t/mu^2<-2), the difference
(alpha-beta)_{pi^+} of the electric (alpha) and the magnetic (beta)
polarizabilities has been determined. As a result we find:
(alpha-beta)_{pi^+}=(11.6\pm 1.5_{stat}\pm 3.0_{syst}\pm 0.5_{mod})x10^-4fm^3.
This result is at variance with recent calculations in the framework of chiral
perturbation theory.Comment: 34 pages, 12 figures, final version to appear in Eur. Phys. J. A;
typos have been correcte
Mass splittings of nuclear isotopes in chiral soliton approach
The differences of the masses of nuclear isotopes with atomic numbers between
\~10 and ~30 can be described within the chiral soliton approach in
satisfactory agreement with data. Rescaling of the model is necessary for this
purpose - decrease of the Skyrme constant by about 30%, providing the "nuclear
variant" of the model. The asymmetric term in Weizsaecker-Bethe- Bacher mass
formula for nuclei can be obtained as the isospin dependent quantum correction
to the nucleus energy. Some predictions for the binding energies of neutron
rich nuclides are made in this way, from, e.g. Be-16 and B-19 to Ne-31 and
Na-32. Neutron rich nuclides with high values of isospin are unstable relative
to strong interactions. The SK4 (Skyrme) variant of the model, as well as SK6
variant (6-th order term in chiral derivatives in the lagrangian as solitons
stabilizer) are considered, and the rational map approximation is used to
describe multiskyrmions.Comment: 16 pages, 10 tables, 2 figures. Figures are added and few misprints
are removed. Submitted to Phys. Atom. Nucl. (Yad. Fiz.
Chiral effective field theories of the strong interactions
Effective field theories of the strong interactions based on the approximate
chiral symmetry of QCD provide a model-independent approach to low-energy
hadron physics. We give a brief introduction to mesonic and baryonic chiral
perturbation theory and discuss a number of applications. We also consider the
effective field theory including vector and axial-vector mesons.Comment: 22 pages, 9 figures, proceedings of "Many-Body Structure of Strongly
Interacting Systems", Mainz, Germany, Feb. 23-25 201
Search for NN-decoupled dibaryons using the process below the pion production threshold
The energy spectrum for high energy -rays ( MeV)
from the process emitted at in the laboratory
frame has been measured at an energy below the pion production threshold,
namely, at 216 MeV. The resulting photon energy spectrum extracted from
coincidence events consists of a narrow peak at a photon energy
of about 24 MeV and a relatively broad peak in the energy range of (50 - 70)
MeV. The statistical significances for the narrow and broad peaks are
5.3 and 3.5, respectively. This behavior of the photon energy
spectrum is interpreted as a signature of the exotic dibaryon resonance
with a mass of about 1956 MeV which is assumed to be formed in the
radiative process followed by its electromagnetic
decay via the mode. The experimental spectrum is
compared with those obtained by means of Monte Carlo simulations.Comment: 14 pages, LaTex, 6 eps-figures, accepted for publication in
Phys.Rev.
Measurement of the transverse target and beam-target asymmetries in meson photoproduction at MAMI
We present new data for the transverse target asymmetry T and the very first
data for the beam-target asymmetry F in the
reaction up to a center-of-mass energy of W=1.9 GeV. The data were obtained
with the Crystal-Ball/TAPS detector setup at the Glasgow tagged photon facility
of the Mainz Microtron MAMI. All existing model predictions fail to reproduce
the new data indicating a significant impact on our understanding of the
underlying dynamics of meson photoproduction. The peculiar nodal
structure observed in existing T data close to threshold is not confirmed.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in PR