14 research outputs found
Electromagnetic Structure of the Pion
In this work, we analyze the electromagnetic structure of the pion. We
calculate its electromagnetic radius and electromagnetic form factor in low and
intermediate momentum range. Such observables are determined by means of a
theoretical model that takes into account the constituent quark and antiquark
of the pion within the formalism of light-front field theory. In particular, we
consider a nonsymmetrical vertex in this model, with which we calculate the
electromagnetic form factor of the pion in an optimized way, so that we obtain
a value closer to the experimental charge radius of the pion. The theoretical
calculations are also compared with the most recent experimental data involving
the pion electromagnetic form factor and the results show very good agreement.Comment: Paper with 4 pages, 1 figure, presented in XII HADRON PHYSICS
Conference - to appear in AIP Conference Proceeding
The Electromagnetic Form Factor of the Kaon in the Light-Front Approach
The kaon electromagnetic form factor is calculated within a light-front
constituent quark model (LFCQM). The electromagnetic components of the current
are extracted from the Feynman triangle diagram within the light-front
approach. We also obtain the electroweak decay constant and the charge radius
for the kaon in the light-front approach. In this work, the kaon observables
are calculated and a fairly good agreement is obtained with a very higher
accuracy when compared with the experimental data.Comment: Paper with 4 pages, 1 figure, reference: XII HADRON PHYSICS
Conference - to appear in AIP Conference Proceeding
Pion and kaon elastic form factors in a refined light-front model
Within the framework of light-front field theory, we reassess the
electromagnetic form factors of the pion and kaon. Comparison with experiment
is made for the full range of momentum transfer, q^2<0, including recent data.
The light-front model's single regulator mass, m_R, of the \bar qq bound-state
vertex function is initially adjusted to reproduce the weak decay constants,
f_\pi\ and f_K, and both meson's charge radii, r_\pi\ and r_K. We study the
behavior of these observables under variation of the quark masses and find an
optimized parameter set, m_u=m_d, m_s and m_R, for which they are in sensibly
better agreement with experiment than in a previous analysis; a feature also
observed for the elastic form factors, in particular at small q^2. This model
refinement is important in view of an extension to vector and heavy-light
mesons.Comment: 5 pages, 8 figures; minor corrections, version published in PRC C86,
038202 (2012
Effect of anharmonicities in the critical number of trapped condensed atoms with attractive two-body interaction
We determine the quantitative effect, in the maximum number of particles and
other static observables, due to small anharmonic terms added to the confining
potential of an atomic condensed system with negative two-body interaction. As
an example of how a cubic or quartic anharmonic term can affect the maximum
number of particles, we consider the trap parameters and the results given by
Roberts et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4211 (2001)]. However, this study can be
easily transferred to other trap geometries to estimate anharmonic effects.Comment: Total of 5 pages, 3 figures and 1 table. To appear in Phys. Rev.
Stability of the trapped nonconservative Gross-Pitaevskii equation with attractive two-body interaction
The dynamics of a nonconservative Gross-Pitaevskii equation for trapped
atomic systems with attractive two-body interaction is numerically
investigated, considering wide variations of the nonconservative parameters,
related to atomic feeding and dissipation. We study the possible limitations of
the mean field description for an atomic condensate with attractive two-body
interaction, by defining the parameter regions where stable or unstable
formation can be found. The present study is useful and timely considering the
possibility of large variations of attractive two-body scattering lengths,
which may be feasible in recent experiments.Comment: 6 pages, 5 figures, submitted to Physical Review
Characterization of Anomalous Forces in Dielectric Rotors
We performed several measurements of anomalous forces on a dielectric rotor under electrostatic conditions of operation. The device operated under constant and intense angular velocity for each high voltage applied. The measurements were made in the similar way than an analogue magnetic gyroscope, by considering clockwise and counterclockwise rotations. We found that there are significant weight reduction on the device in the clockwise case, with one order of magnitude higher than the magnetic case. In addition, we detected a similar asymmetry in the observation of the effect, that is, there are smaller results for the anomalous forces in counterclockwise rotation for higher values of the voltage applied on the device. We also propose a theoretical model to explain the quantitative effect based on average values of macroscopic observables of the device rotation and concluded that it is consistent with the experimental findings.The accepted manuscript in pdf format is listed with the files at the bottom of this page. The presentation of the authors' names and (or) special characters in the title of the manuscript may differ slightly between what is listed on this page and what is listed in the pdf file of the accepted manuscript; that in the pdf file of the accepted manuscript is what was submitted by the author
Dynamics of Bose-Einstein condensates with atomic pumping and dissipative processes
In the dynamics of condensed systems described by a nonconservative non-linear Schrodinger equation, we investigate numerically the role of atomic feeding and inelastic collisions where dipolar relaxation is the dominant process. By analyzing the range of possible values of the nonconservative parameters to have stable (or unstable) Solutions, we verify that spatio-temporal chaos patterns, known for attractive two-body systems due to collapsing effects, can also occur in the repulsive case when the term corresponding to the linear atomic feeding dominates the nonconservative contributions. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq