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Heavy ion collisions and AdS/CFT
We review some recent applications of the AdS/CFT correspondence to heavy ion
collisions including a calculation of the jet quenching parameter in N=4
super-Yang-Mills theory and quarkonium suppression from velocity scaling of the
screening length for a heavy quark-antiquark pair. We also briefly discuss
differences and similarities between QCD and N=4 Super-Yang-Mills theory.Comment: Plenary talk given at Quark Matter 2006, Shanghai, China, 14-20 Nov
2006; to appear in the conference proceedin
Partial Wave Analysis of
A partial wave analysis of in
decay is presented using a sample of 14 million
events accumulated by the BES II detector. The data are fitted to
the sum of relativistic covariant tensor amplitudes for intermediate resonant
decay modes. From the fit, significant contributions to decays from
the channels , , ,
, , , and are found. Flavor-SU(3)-violating
asymmetry is observed. Values obtained for the masses and
widths of the resonances , , , and
are presented.Comment: 16 pages, 9 figures, and 4 table
Experimental study of decays to \K^+ K^- \pi^+ \pi^- \pi^0 final states
final states are studied using a sample of
decays collected with the Beijing Spectrometer
(BESII) at the Beijing Electron-Position Collider. The branching fractions of
decays to , , , , , and are determined. The first two agree with previous
measurements, and the last five are first measurements.Comment: 19 pages, 9 figure
Search for psi(3770)\ra\rho\pi at the BESII detector at the Beijing Electron-Positron Collider
Non- decay \psppto \rhopi is searched for using a data sample of
taken at the center-of-mass energy of 3.773 GeV by the
BESII detector at the BEPC. No \rhopi signal is observed, and the upper limit
of the cross section is measured to be \sigma(\EETO \rhopi)<6.0 pb at 90% C.
L. Considering the interference between the continuum amplitude and the \pspp
resonance amplitude, the branching fraction of \pspp decays to is
determined to be \BR(\pspp\ra\rho\pi)\in(6.0\times10^{-6}, 2.4\times10^{-3})
at 90% C. L. This is in agreement with the prediction of the - and -wave
mixing scheme of the charmonium states for solving the ``\rhopi puzzle''
between \jpsi and \psp decays.Comment: 15 pages, 5 figure
Measurement of the branching fractions of psi(2S) -> 3(pi+pi-) and J/psi -> 2(pi+pi-)
Using data samples collected at sqrt(s) = 3.686GeV and 3.650GeV by the BESII
detector at the BEPC, the branching fraction of psi(2S) -> 3(pi+pi-) is
measured to be [4.83 +- 0.38(stat) +- 0.69(syst)] x 10^-4, and the relative
branching fraction of J/psi -> 2(pi+pi-) to that of J/psi -> mu+mu- is measured
to be [5.86 +- 0.19(stat) +- 0.39(syst)]% via psi(2S) -> (pi+pi-)J/psi, J/psi
-> 2(pi+pi-). The electromagnetic form factor of 3(pi+pi-) is determined to be
0.21 +- 0.02 and 0.20 +- 0.01 at sqrt(s) = 3.686GeV and 3.650GeV, respectively.Comment: 17pages, 7 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev.
First observation of
Using 14 million events collected with the Beijing Spectrometer
(BESII) at the Beijing Electron-Positron Collider, the branching fractions of
decays to and and the branching
fractions of the main background channels ,
, , and are determined. The contributions of the
resonances in are also
discussed.Comment: 19 pages, 8 figures, add vertex requirement systematic erro
Observation of a resonance X(1835) in J/\psi --> \gamma \pi^+ \pi^- \eta^{\prime}
The decay channel J/\psi --> \gamma \pi^+ \pi^- \eta^{\prime} is analyzed
using a sample of 5.8\times 10^7 J\psi events collected with the BESII
detector. A resonance, the X(1835), is observed in the \pi^+ \pi^-
\eta^{\prime} invariant mass spectrum with a statistical significance of 7.7
\sigma. A fit with a Breit-Wigner function yields a mass M = 1833.7 \pm
6.1(stat) \pm 2.7(syst) MeV/c^2, a width \Gamma = 67.7 \pm 20.3(stat) \pm
7.7(syst) MeV/c^2 and a product branching fraction B(J/\psi --> \gamma X) B(X
--> \pi^+ \pi^- \eta^{\prime}) = (2.2 \pm 0.4(stat) \pm 0.4(syst)) \times
10^{-4}. The mass and width of the X(1835) are not compatible with any known
meson resonance. Its properties are consistent with expectations for the state
that produces the strong p\bar{p} mass threshold enhancement observed in the
J\psi -->\gamma p \bar{p} process at BESII.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures, RevTex4, Submitted to Phys. Rev. Let
Measurement of \psip Radiative Decays
Using 14 million psi(2S) events accumulated at the BESII detector, we report
first measurements of branching fractions or upper limits for psi(2S) decays
into gamma ppbar, gamma 2(pi^+pi^-), gamma K_s K^-pi^++c.c., gamma K^+ K^-
pi^+pi^-, gamma K^{*0} K^- pi^+ +c.c., gamma K^{*0}\bar K^{*0}, gamma pi^+pi^-
p pbar, gamma 2(K^+K^-), gamma 3(pi^+pi^-), and gamma 2(pi^+pi^-)K^+K^- with
the invariant mass of hadrons below 2.9GeV/c^2. We also report branching
fractions of psi(2S) decays into 2(pi^+pi^-) pi^0, omega pi^+pi^-, omega
f_2(1270), b_1^\pm pi^\mp, and pi^0 2(pi^+pi^-) K^+K^-.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figure
Measurements of and decays into and
Using 58 million and 14 million events collected by the
BESII detector at the BEPC, branching fractions or upper limits for the decays
and and are measured. For the isospin violating decays, the upper
limits are determined to be and at the 90% confidence level. The isospin
conserving process is observed for the
first time, and its branching fraction is measured to be , where the
first error is statistical and the second one is systematic. No signal is observed in decays, and is set at the 90%
confidence level. Branching fractions of decays into and are also reported, and the sum
of these branching fractions is determined to be .Comment: 7 pages, 10 figures. Phys.Rev.D comments considere
Measurements of the continuum and values in annihilation in the energy region between 3.650 and 3.872 GeV
We report measurents of the continuum near the center-of-mass
energy of 3.70 GeV, the and the values in annihilation at 68 energy points in the energy
region between 3.650 and 3.872 GeV with the BES-II detector at the BEPC
Collodier. We obtain the for the continuum light hadron
(containing u, d and s quarks) production near the threshold to be
.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figure
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