Antiproton-Proton Channels in J/psi Decays

The recent measurements by the BES Collaboration of J/psi decays into a photon and a proton-antiproton pair indicate a strong enhancement at the proton-antiproton threshold not observed in the decays into a neutral pion and a proton-antiproton pair. Is this enhancement due to a proton-antiproton quasi-bound state or a baryonium? A natural explanation follows from a traditional model of proton-antiproton interactions based on G-parity transformation. The observed proton-antiproton structure is due to a strong attraction in the 1S0 state, and possibly to a near-threshold quasi-bound state in the 11S0 wave.Comment: 6 pages, 5 figures. The antiproton-proton pair being in isospin one in the J/Psi decay into neutral pion-antiproton-proton, the antiproton-proton 1P1 and 3S1 waves have been replaced by the 31P1 and 33S1 ones and Figs. 1 and 2 have been replaced accordingly. Conclusions are unchanged. Most of the content of the paper is published in Phys. Rev. C72, 011001 (2005

CPT\cal CPT-invariant two-fermion Dirac equation with extended hyperfine operator

For the S-states of muonium and positronium, the hyperfine shifts to the order $\alpha^6$ of a recently derived two-fermion equation with explicit $\cal CPT$-invariance are checked against the results of a nonrelativistic reduction, and the leading $\alpha^8$ shifts are calculated. An additional hyperfine operator is discovered which can milden the singularity for $r\to 0$ of the Dirac hyperfine operator, such that the resulting extended operator can be used nonperturbatively. The binding correction to magnetic moments is mentioned

Antihyperon polarization in high-energy inclusive reactions

We propose a model for the antihyperon polarization in high-energy proton-nucleus inclusive reactions, based on the final-state interactions between the antihyperons and other produced particles (predominantly pions). To formulate this idea, we use the previously obtained low-energy pion-(anti-)hyperon interaction using effective chiral Lagrangians, and a hydrodynamic parametrization of the background matter, which expands and decouples at a certain freezeout temperature.Comment: 17 pages, 10 figure

The pion-pion scattering amplitude. II: Improved analysis above KˉK\bar{K}K threshold

We improve, in the energy region between $\bar{K}K$ threshold and $\sim~1.4$ GeV, the energy-dependent phase shift analysis of $\pi\pi$ scattering presented in a previous paper. For the S0 wave we have included more data above $\bar{K}K$ threshold and we have taken into account systematically the elasticity data on the reaction $\pi\pi\to\bar{K}K$. We here made a coupled channel fit. For the D0 wave we have considered information on low energy parameters, and imposed a better fit to the $f_2$ resonance. For both waves the expressions we now find are substantially more precise than the previous ones. We also provide slightly improved D2 and P waves, including the estimated inelasticity for the first, and a more flexible parametrization between 1 and 1.42 GeV for the second. The accuracy of our amplitudes is now such that it requires a refinement of the Regge analysis, for $s^{1/2}\geq1.42$ GeV, which we also carry out. We show that this more realistic input produces $\pi\pi$ scattering amplitudes that satisfy better forward dispersion relations, particularly for $\pi^0\pi^0$ scattering.Comment: Plain TeX. 12 figures. Minor anomaly in the K-matrix fit corrected by moving matching point to 932 MeV, and pole $M_1$ to 910.6 MeV. Results unaltere

Antiproton-proton resonant like channels in J/Psi decays into photon, proton and antiproton

The BES collaboration has recently observed a strong enhancement close to the proton-antiproton threshold in the J/Psi decays into photon, proton and antiproton. Such a structure can be explained by a traditional nucleon-antinucleon model. The near threshold 1S0 bound state and/or the well-established 3P0 resonant state found in this nucleon-antinucleon interaction can adequately describe the BES data.Comment: Invited talk at the 10th International Symposium on Meson-Nucleon Physics and the Structure of the Nucleon (MENU 2004), Beijing, China, August 29 - September 4, 2004 - 4 pages, 2 figure

Eight-component two-fermion equations

An eight-component formalism is proposed for the relativistic two-fermion problem. In QED, it extends the applicability of the Dirac equation with hyperfine interaction to the positronium case. The use of exact relativistic two-body kinematics entails a CP-invariant spectrum which is symmetric in the total cms energy. It allows the extension of recent \alpha^6 recoil corrections to the positronium case, and implies new recoil corrections to the fine and hyperfine structures and to the Bethe logarithm.Comment: Revtex, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev.