119 research outputs found

    Physics Opportunities with Meson Beams

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    Over the past two decades, meson photo- and electro-production data of unprecedented quality and quantity have been measured at electromagnetic facilities worldwide. By contrast, the meson-beam data for the same hadronic final states are mostly outdated and largely of poor quality, or even nonexistent, and thus provide inadequate input to help interpret, analyze, and exploit the full potential of the new electromagnetic data. To reap the full benefit of the high-precision electromagnetic data, new high-statistics data from measurements with meson beams, with good angle and energy coverage for a wide range of reactions, are critically needed to advance our knowledge in baryon and meson spectroscopy and other related areas of hadron physics. To address this situation, a state of-the-art meson-beam facility needs to be constructed. The present paper summarizes unresolved issues in hadron physics and outlines the vast opportunities and advances that only become possible with such a facility.Comment: 46 pages, 10 figures, 4 table

    Curves on Heisenberg invariant quartic surfaces in projective 3-space

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    This paper is about the family of smooth quartic surfaces XP3X \subset \mathbb{P}^3 that are invariant under the Heisenberg group H2,2H_{2,2}. For a very general such surface XX, we show that the Picard number of XX is 16 and determine its Picard group. It turns out that the general Heisenberg invariant quartic contains 320 smooth conics and that in the very general case, this collection of conics generates the Picard group.Comment: Updated references, corrected typo

    QCD in the nuclear medium and effects due to Cherenkov gluons

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    The equations of in-medium gluodynamics are proposed. Their classical lowest order solution is explicitly shown for a color charge moving with constant speed. For nuclear permittivity larger than 1 it describes emission of Cherenkov gluons resembling results of classical electrodynamics. The values of the real and imaginary parts of the nuclear permittivity are obtained from the fits to experimental data on the double-humped structure around the away-side jet obtained at RHIC. The dispersion of the nuclear permittivity is predicted by comparing the RHIC, SPS and cosmic ray data. This is important for LHC experiments. Cherenkov gluons may be responsible for the asymmetry of dilepton mass spectra near rho-meson, observed in the SPS experiment with excess in the low-mass wing of the resonance. This feature is predicted to be common for all resonances. The "color rainbow" quantum effect might appear according to higher order terms of in-medium QCD if the nuclear permittivity depends on color.Comment: 29 p., 4 figs; for "Phys. Atom. Nucl." volume dedicated to 80th birthday of L.B. Okun; minor corrections on pp. 11 and 13 in v

    Study of in-medium ω\omega meson properties in Ap, pA and AA collisions

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    We propose to investigate the in-medium properties of vector ω\omega mesons at the normal nuclear density in Ap(pA) collisions and at higher density in AA collisions at the ITEP accelerator facility TWAC. Using of the inverse Ap kinematics will permit us to study the ω\omega meson production in a wide momentum interval included the not yet explored range of small meson momenta relative to the projectile nuclei where the mass modification effect in nuclear matter is expected to be the strongest. Momentum dependence of the in-medium ω\omega meson width will be studied in the traditional pA kinematics. We intend to use the electromagnetic calorimeter for reconstruction of the ω\omega meson invariant mass by detecting photons from the ωπ0γ3γ\omega \to \pi^{0}\gamma \to 3\gamma decay. The model calculations and simulations with RQMD generator show feasibility of the proposed experiment. Available now intensity of the ion beams provides a possibility to collect large statistics and make decisive conclusion about the ω\omega meson properties at density of normal nuclei. At the second stage of the investigation the ω\omega meson properties will be studied in AA collisions at higher density. Interpretation of these measurements will be based on the results obtained in Ap(pA) interactions. Further investigation of the in-medium properties of light unflavored and charmed mesons can be performed at ITEP and at GSI(FAIR) where higher ion energies will be accessible in near future.Comment: 26 pages, 10 figures, 2 table

    Electromagnetic Probes

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    A review is presented of dilepton and real photon measurements in relativistic heavy ion collisions over a very broad energy range from the low energies of the BEVALAC up to the highest energies available at RHIC. The dileptons cover the invariant mass range \mll = 0 - 2.5 GeV/c2^2, i.e. the continuum at low and intermediate masses and the light vector mesons, ρ,ω,ϕ\rho, \omega, \phi. The review includes also measurements of the light vector mesons in elementary reactions.Comment: To be published in Landolt-Boernstein Volume 1-23A; 40 pages, 24 figures. Final version updated with small changes to the text, updated references and updated figure

    Photoproduction of ω\omega mesons on nuclei near the production threshold

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    The photoproduction of ω\omega mesons on LH_2, C and Nb has been studied for incident photon energies from 900 to 1300 MeV using the CB/TAPS detector at ELSA. The ω\omega line shape does not show any significant difference between the LH_2 and the Nb targets. The data are compared with results of transport calculations that predict a sensitivity of the ω\omega line shape to in-medium modifications near the production threshold on a free nucleon of EγlabE_{\gamma}^{lab} = 1109 MeV.}Comment: 5 pages, 3 figure

    Measurement of differential cross sections for Σ⁺p elastic scattering in the momentum range 0.44–0.80 GeV/c

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    クォーク間の「芯」をとらえた --物質が安定して存在できる理由の理解に貢献--. 京都大学プレスリリース. 2022-09-05.We performed a novel Σ⁺+p scattering experiment at the J-PARC Hadron Experimental Facility. Approximately 2400 Σ⁺+p elastic scattering events were identified from 4.9 × 10⁷ tagged Σ⁺+ particles in the Σ⁺+ momentum range 0.44-0.80 GeV/c. The differential cross sections of the Σ⁺+p elastic scattering were derived with much better precision than in previous experiments. The obtained differential cross sections were approximately 2 mb/sr or less, which were not as large as those predicted by the fss2 and FSS models based on the quark cluster model in the short-range region. By performing phase-shift analyses for the obtained differential cross sections, we experimentally derived the phase shifts of the ³S₁ and ¹P₁ channels for the first time. The phase shift of the ³S₁ channel, where a large repulsive core was predicted owing to the Pauli effect between quarks, was evaluated as 20° < |δ₃S₁| < 35°. If the sign of δ₃S₁ is assumed to be negative, the interaction in this channel is moderately repulsive, as the Nijmegen extended-sort-core models predicted

    Search for an invisible ZZ^\prime in a final state with two muons and missing energy at Belle II

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    The LμLτL_{\mu}-L_{\tau} extension of the standard model predicts the existence of a lepton-flavor-universality-violating ZZ^{\prime} boson that couples only to the heavier lepton families. We search for such a ZZ^\prime through its invisible decay in the process e+eμ+μZe^+ e^- \to \mu^+ \mu^- Z^{\prime}. We use a sample of electron-positron collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 10.58GeV collected by the Belle II experiment in 2019-2020, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 79.7fb1^{-1}. We find no excess over the expected standard-model background. We set 90%\%-confidence-level upper limits on the cross section for this process as well as on the coupling of the model, which ranges from 3×1033 \times 10^{-3} at low ZZ^{\prime} masses to 1 at ZZ^{\prime} masses of 8GeV/c2GeV/c^{2}

    Tests of light-lepton universality in angular asymmetries of B0DνB^0 \to D^{*-} \ell \nu decays

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    We present the first comprehensive tests of light-lepton universality in the angular distributions of semileptonic \Bz-meson decays to charged spin-1 charmed mesons. We measure five angular-asymmetry observables as functions of the decay recoil that are sensitive to lepton-universality-violating contributions. We use events where one neutral \B is fully reconstructed in \PUpsilonFourS{} \to\B\overline{B} decays in data corresponding to \lumion integrated luminosity from electron-positron collisions collected with the \belletwo detector. We find no significant deviation from the standard model expectations

    Measurement of C ⁣PC\!P asymmetries and branching-fraction ratios for B±DK±B^\pm \to DK^\pm and Dπ±D\pi^\pm with DKS0K±πD\to K^0_{\rm S} K^\pm\pi^\mp using Belle and Belle II data

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    We measure C ⁣PC\!P asymmetries and branching-fraction ratios for B±DK±B^\pm \to DK^\pm and Dπ±D\pi^\pm decays with DKS0K±πD\to K^0_{\rm S} K^\pm\pi^\mp, where DD is a superposition of D0D^0 and Dˉ0\bar{D}^0. We use the full data set of the Belle experiment, containing 772×106 BBˉ772\times 10^6~B\bar{B} pairs, and data from the Belle~II experiment, containing 387×106 BBˉ387\times 10^6~B\bar{B} pairs, both collected in electron-positron collisions at the Υ(4S)\Upsilon(4S) resonance. Our results provide model-independent information on the unitarity triangle angle ϕ3\phi_3.Comment: 26 pages, 8 figure
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