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Five-quark components in decay
Five-quark components in the are shown to
contribute significantly to decay through
quark-antiquark annihilation transitions. These involve the overlap between the
and components and may be triggered by the confining
interaction between the quarks. With a 10% admixture of five-quark
components in the the decay width can be larger by factors 2 - 3
over that calculated in the quark model with 3 valence quarks, depending on the
details of the confining interaction. The effect of transitions between the
components themselves on the calculated decay width is however
small. The large contribution of the quark-antiquark annihilation transitions
thus may compensate the underprediction of the width of the by
the valence quark model, once the contains
components with 10% probability.Comment: accepted versio
Radiative decays: a new flavour filter
Radiative decays of the orbital excitations of the ,
and to the scalars , and are shown to
provide a flavour filter, clarifying the extent of glueball mixing in the
scalar states. A complementary approach to the latter is provided by the
radiative decays of the scalar mesons to the ground-state vectors ,
and . Discrimination among different mixing scenarios is strong.Comment: 12 pages, 1 table, 0 figure
Pulsed pumping of a Bose-Einstein condensate
In this work, we examine a system for coherent transfer of atoms into a
Bose-Einstein condensate. We utilize two spatially separate Bose-Einstein
condensates in different hyperfine ground states held in the same dc magnetic
trap. By means of a pulsed transfer of atoms, we are able to show a clear
resonance in the timing of the transfer, both in temperature and number, from
which we draw conclusions about the underlying physical process. The results
are discussed in the context of the recently demonstrated pumped atom laser.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figures, published in Physical Review
The scientific heritage of Richard Henry Dalitz, FRS (1925-2006)
Professor Richard H. Dalitz passed away on January 13, 2006. He was almost 81
years old and his outstanding contributions are intimately connected to some of
the major breakthroughs of the 20th century in particle and nuclear physics.
These outstanding contributions go beyond the Dalitz Plot, Dalitz Pair and CDD
poles that bear his name. He pioneered the theoretical study of strange baryon
resonances, of baryon spectroscopy in the quark model, and of hypernuclei, to
all of which he made lasting contributions. His formulation of the
" puzzle" led to the discovery that parity is not a symmetry of
the weak interactions. A brief scientific evaluation of Dalitz's major
contributions to particle and nuclear physics is hereby presented, followed by
the first comprehensive list of his scientific publications, as assembled from
several sources. The list is divided into two categories: the first, main part
comprises Dalitz's research papers and reviews, including topics in the history
of particle physics, biographies and reminiscences; the second part lists book
reviews, public lectures and obituaries authored by Dalitz, and books edited by
him. This provides the first necessary step towards a more systematic research
of the Dalitz heritage in modern physics.
The present 2016 edition updates the original 2006 edition, published in
Nucl. Phys. A 771 (2006) 2-7, doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2006.03.007, and 8-25,
doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2006.03.008, by including for the first time a dozen or
so of publications, found recently in a list submitted to the Royal Society by
Dalitz in 2004, that escaped our attention in the original version.Comment: updates the original edition by including several publications,
mostly in category III, that were unknown to us in 200
Spin of ground state baryons
We calculate the quark spin contribution to the total angular momentum of
flavor octet and flavor decuplet ground state baryons using a spin-flavor
symmetry based parametrization method of quantum chromodynamics. We find that
third order SU(6) symmetry breaking three-quark operators are necessary to
explain the experimental result Sigma_1=0.32(10). For spin 3/2 decuplet baryons
we predict that the quark spin contribution is Sigma_3=3.93(22), i.e.
considerably larger than their total angular momentum.Comment: 8 page
General limit to non-destructive optical detection of atoms
We demonstrate that there is a fundamental limit to the sensitivity of
phase-based detection of atoms with light for a given maximum level of
allowable spontaneous emission. This is a generalisation of previous results
for two-level and three-level atoms. The limit is due to an upper bound on the
phase shift that can be imparted on a laser beam for a given excited state
population. Specifially, we show that no single-pass optical technique using
classical light, based on any number of lasers or coherences between any number
of levels, can exceed the limit imposed by the two-level atom. This puts
significant restrictions on potential non-destructive optical measurement
schemes.Comment: 7 pages, 1 figur
Rb-85 tunable-interaction Bose-Einstein condensate machine
We describe our experimental setup for creating stable Bose-Einstein
condensates of Rb-85 with tunable interparticle interactions. We use
sympathetic cooling with Rb-87 in two stages, initially in a tight
Ioffe-Pritchard magnetic trap and subsequently in a weak, large-volume crossed
optical dipole trap, using the 155 G Feshbach resonance to manipulate the
elastic and inelastic scattering properties of the Rb-85 atoms. Typical Rb-85
condensates contain 4 x 10^4 atoms with a scattering length of a=+200a_0. Our
minimalist apparatus is well-suited to experiments on dual-species and spinor
Rb condensates, and has several simplifications over the Rb-85 BEC machine at
JILA (Papp, 2007; Papp and Wieman, 2006), which we discuss at the end of this
article.Comment: 10 pages, 8 figure
Genetic mapping, synteny, and physical location of two loci for Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. tracheiphilum race 4 resistance in cowpea [Vignaunguiculata (L.) Walp].
Fusarium wilt is a vascular disease caused by the fungus Fusariumoxysporum f.sp. tracheiphilum (Fot) in cowpea [Vignaunguiculata (L.) Walp]. In this study, we mapped loci conferring resistance to Fot race 4 in three cowpea RIL populations: IT93K-503-1 × CB46, CB27 × 24-125B-1, and CB27 × IT82E-18/Big Buff. Two independent loci which confer resistance to Fot race 4 were identified, Fot4-1 and Fot4-2. Fot4-1 was identified in the IT93K-503-1 (resistant) × CB46 (susceptible) population and was positioned on the cowpea consensus genetic map, spanning 21.57-29.40 cM on linkage group 5. The Fot4-2 locus was validated by identifying it in both the CB27 (resistant) × 24-125B-1 (susceptible) and CB27 (resistant) × IT82E-18/Big Buff (susceptible) populations. Fot4-2 was positioned on the cowpea consensus genetic map on linkage group 3; the minimum distance spanned 71.52-71.75 cM whereas the maximum distance spanned 64.44-80.23 cM. These genomic locations of Fot4-1 and Fot4-2 on the cowpea consensus genetic map, relative to Fot3-1 which was previously identified as the locus conferring resistance to Fot race 3, established that all three loci were independent. The Fot4-1 and Fot4-2 syntenic loci were examined in Glycine max, where several disease-resistance candidate genes were identified for both loci. In addition, Fot4-1 and Fot4-2 were coarsely positioned on the cowpea physical map. Fot4-1 and Fot4-2 will contribute to molecular marker development for future use in marker-assisted selection, thereby expediting introgression of Fot race 4 resistance into future cowpea cultivars
Open-charm meson spectroscopy
We present a theoretical framework that accounts for the new and
mesons measured in the open-charm sector. These resonances are
properly described if considered as a mixture of conventional wave
quark-antiquark states and four-quark components. The narrowest states are
basically wave quark-antiquark mesons, while the dominantly four-quark
states are shifted above the corresponding two-meson threshold, being broad
resonances. We study the electromagnetic decay widths as basic tools to
scrutiny their nature. The proposed explanation incorporates in a natural way
the most recently discovered mesons in charmonium spectroscopy.Comment: 15 pages, 5 tables. Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev.
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