189 research outputs found
Cabibbo suppressed decays and the lifetime
The problem of the lifetime is considered in the framework of
{\em Heavy-Quark Expansion} and symmetry. The lifetime of
is expressed in terms of measurable inclusive quantities of the
other two charmed baryons belonging to the same multiplet in a
model-independent way. In such a treatment, inclusive decay rates of singly
Cabibbo suppressed decay modes have a prominent role. An analogous approach is
applied to the multiplet of charmed mesons yielding interesting predictions on
properties. The results obtained indicate that a more precise
measurement of inclusive decay quantities of some charmed hadrons (such as
) that are more amenable to experiment can contribute
significantly to our understanding of decay properties of other charmed hadrons
(such as ) where discrepancies or ambiguities exist.Comment: 9 pages, revtex4; certain improvements in text as suggested by the
referee, acknowledgement changed; version to appear in Phys. Rev.
Holography and Variable Cosmological Constant
An effective local quantum field theory with UV and IR cutoffs correlated in
accordance with holographic entropy bounds is capable of rendering the
cosmological constant (CC) stable against quantum corrections. By setting an IR
cutoff to length scales relevant to cosmology, one easily obtains the currently
observed rho_Lambda ~ 10^{-47} GeV^4, thus alleviating the CC problem. It is
argued that scaling behavior of the CC in these scenarios implies an
interaction of the CC with matter sector or a time-dependent gravitational
constant, to accommodate the observational data.Comment: 7 pages, final version accepted by PR
Exclusive Double Charmonium Production from Decay
The exclusive decay of to a vector plus pseudoscalar charmonium is
studied in perturbative QCD. The corresponding branching ratios are predicted
to be of order for first three resonances, and we expect
these decay modes should be discovered in the prospective high-luminosity
facilities such as super experiment. As a manifestation of the
short-distance loop contribution, the relative phases among strong,
electromagnetic and radiative decay amplitudes can be deduced. It is
particularly interesting to find that the relative phase between strong and
electromagnetic amplitudes is nearly orthogonal. The resonance-continuum
interference effect for double charmonium production near various
resonances in annihilation is addressed
Agegraphic Chaplygin gas model of dark energy
We establish a connection between the agegraphic models of dark energy and
Chaplygin gas energy density in non-flat universe. We reconstruct the potential
of the agegraphic scalar field as well as the dynamics of the scalar field
according to the evolution of the agegraphic dark energy. We also extend our
study to the interacting agegraphic generalized Chaplygin gas dark energy
model.Comment: 8 page
Gluon Fragmentation into Heavy Quarkonium
The dominant production mechanism for heavy quark-antiquark bound states in
very high energy processes is fragmentation, the splitting of a high energy
parton into a quarkonium state and other partons. We show that the
fragmentation functions describing these processes can be calculated
using perturbative QCD. We calculate the fragmentation functions for a gluon to
split into S-wave quarkonium states to leading order in the QCD coupling
constant. The leading logarithms of , where is the factorization
scale and is the heavy quark mass, are summed up using Altarelli-Parisi
evolution equations.Comment: LateX 11 pages (3 figures available upon request). NUHEP-TH-92-2
Nonsaturated Holographic Dark Energy
It has been well established by today that the concept of holographic dark
energy (HDE) does entail a serious candidate for the dark energy of the
universe. Here we deal with models where the holographic bound for dark energy
is not saturated for a large portion of the history of the universe. This is
particularly compelling when the IR cutoff is set by the Hubble scale, since
otherwise a transition from a decelerated to an accelerated era cannot be
obtained for a spatially flat universe. We demonstrate by three generic but
disparate dynamical models, two of them containing a variable Newton constant,
that transition between the two eras is always obtained for the IR cutoff in
the form of the Hubble scale and the nonsaturated HDE. We also give arguments
of why such a choice for the dark energy is more consistent and favored over
the widely accepted saturated form.Comment: 9 pages, minor revision, to appear in JCA
Thermodynamics of interacting entropy-corrected holographic dark energy in a non-flat FRW universe
A so-called "entropy-corrected holographic dark energy" (ECHDE), was recently
proposed to explain the dark energy-dominated universe with the help of quantum
corrections to the entropy-area relation in the setup of loop quantum
cosmology. Using this new definition, we investigate its thermodynamical
features including entropy and energy conservation. We describe the
thermodynamical interpretation of the interaction between ECHDE and dark matter
in a non-flat universe. We obtain a relation between the interaction term of
the dark components and thermal fluctuation. Our study further generalizes the
earlier works [M.R. Setare and E.C. Vagenas, Phys. Lett. B 666 (2008) 111; B.
Wang et al., Phys. Lett. B 662 (2008) 1] in this direction.Comment: 14 pages, no figure, accepted by Int. J. Mod. Phys.
A Tracker Solution for a Holographic Dark Energy Model
We investigate a kind of holographic dark energy model with the future event
horizon the IR cutoff and the equation of state -1. In this model, the
constraint on the equation of state automatically specifies an interaction
between matter and dark energy. With this interaction included, an accelerating
expansion is obtained as well as the transition from deceleration to
acceleration. It is found that there exists a stable tracker solution for the
numerical parameter , and smaller than one will not lead to a physical
solution. This model provides another possible phenomenological framework to
alleviate the cosmological coincidence problem in the context of holographic
dark energy. Some properties of the evolution which are relevant to
cosmological parameters are also discussed.Comment: 10 pages, 3 figures; accepted for publication in Int.J.Mod.Phys.
Radiative Decay of Vector Quarkonium: Constraints on Glueballs and Light Gluinos
Given a resonance of known mass, width, and J^{PC}, we can determine its
gluonic branching fraction, b(R->gg), from data on its production in radiative
vector quarkonium decay, V -> gamma+R. For most resonances b(R->gg) is found to
be O(10%), consistent with being q-qbar states, but we find that both
pseudoscalars observed in the 1440 MeV region have b(R->gg) ~ 1/2 - 1, and
b(f_0^{++}->gg) ~ 1/2. As data improves, b(R->gg) should be a useful
discriminator between q-qbar and gluonic states and may permit quantitative
determination of the extent to which a particular resonance is a mixture of
glueball and q-qbar. We also examine the regime of validity of pQCD for
predicting the rate of V -> gamma+eta_gluino, the ``extra'' pseudoscalar bound
state which would exist if there were light gluinos. From the CUSB limit on
peaks in Upsilon -> gamma X, the mass range 3 GeV < m(eta_gluino) < 7 GeV can
be excluded. An experiment must be significantly more sensitive to exclude an
eta_gluino lighter than this.Comment: 36pp (inc figs),RU-94-04. (Replaces original which didn't latex
correctly and didn't have figures.
Cabibbo-suppressed decays of the Omega_c^0 - feedback to the Xi_c^+ lifetime
We investigate a possible background of the type Omega_c^0 --> Xi_c^+ pi^- to
the CLEO Xi_c^+ lifetime measurement. This decay mode may lead to an
overestimate of the Xi_c^+ decay length and, therefore, increase the measured
Xi_c^+ lifetime. The branching ratio Gamma(Omega_c^0 --> Xi_c^+
pi^-)/Gamma(Omega_c^0 --> Omega^- pi^+) is analyzed in the framework of the
pole model and the modified current algebra. We find that the Omega_c^0 -->
Xi_c^+ pi^- decay mode could not generate a substantial systematic error in the
Xi_c^+ lifetime measurement. Also, it cannot significantly reduce the
disagreement between theoretical and experimental values of the Xi_c^+
lifetime.Comment: 9 pages, 3 figure
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