114 research outputs found
Reexamining radiative decays of quarkonium into and
Recently CLEO has studied the radiative decay of into and
an upper limit for the decay has been determined. Confronting with this upper
limit,most of theoretical predictions for the decay fails. After briefly
reviewing these predictions we re-examine the decay by separating
nonperturbative effect related to the quarkonium and that related to or
, in which the later is parameterized by distribution amplitudes of
gluons in . With this factorization approach we obtain theoretical
predictions which are in agreement with experiment. Uncertainties in our
predictions are discussed. The possibly largest uncertainties are from
relativistic corrections for and the value of the charm quark mass. We
argue that the effect of these uncertainties can be reduced by using quarkonium
masses instead of using quark masses. An example of the reduction is shown with
an attempt to explain the violation of the famous 14% rule in radiative decays
of charmonia.Comment: 9 Pages, Latex fil
Diffractive Photoproduction of Eta_c
Diffractive photoproduction of is an important process to study the
effect of Odderon, whose existence is still not confirmed in experiment. A
detailed interpretation of Odderon in QCD, i.e., in terms of gluons is also
unclear.Taking charm quarks as heavy quarks, we can use NRQCD and take
as a bound state. Hence, in the production of a free pair is first produced and this pair is transformed into
subsequently.In the forward region of the kinematics, the pair
interacts with initial hadron through exchanges of soft gluons. This
interaction can be studied with HQET, which provides a systematic expansion in
the inverse of the -quark mass . We find that the calculation of the
-matrix element in the forward region can be formulated as the problem of
solving a wave function of a -quark propagating in a background field of
soft gluons. At leading order we find that the differential cross-section can
be expressed with four functions, which are defined with a twist-3 operator of
gluons. The effect of exchanging a Odderon can be identified with this operator
in our case. We discuss our results in detail and compare them with those
obtained in previous studies. Our results and those from other studies show
that the differential cross-section is very small in the forward region. We
also show that the production through photon exchange is dominant in the
extremely forward region, hence the effect of Odderon exchange can not be
identified in this region.For completeness we also give results for diffractive
photoproduction of .Comment: 20 pages with 3 figures. Text improve
Complete measurement of three-body photodisintegration of 3He for photon energies between 0.35 and 1.55 GeV
The three-body photodisintegration of 3He has been measured with the CLAS
detector at Jefferson Lab, using tagged photons of energies between 0.35 GeV
and 1.55 GeV. The large acceptance of the spectrometer allowed us for the first
time to cover a wide momentum and angular range for the two outgoing protons.
Three kinematic regions dominated by either two- or three-body contributions
have been distinguished and analyzed. The measured cross sections have been
compared with results of a theoretical model, which, in certain kinematic
ranges, have been found to be in reasonable agreement with the data.Comment: 22 pages, 25 eps figures, 2 tables, submitted to PRC. Modifications:
removed 2 figures, improvements on others, a few minor modifications to the
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Further Experimental Studies of Two-Body Radiative \Upsilon Decays
Continuing our studies of radiative Upsilon(1S) decays, we report on a search
for Upsilon to gamma eta and Upsilon to gamma f_{J}(2220) in 61.3 pb^{-1} of
e^{+}e^{-} data taken with the CLEO II detector at the Cornell Electron Storage
Ring. For the gamma eta search the three decays of the eta meson to
pi^{+}pi^{-}pi^{0}, pi^{0}pi^{0}pi^{0}, and gamma gamma were investigated. We
found no candidate events in the two (3\pi)^{0} modes and no significant excess
over expected backgrounds in the gamma gamma mode to set a limit on the
branching fraction of B(Upsilon to gamma eta) < 2.1 x 10^{-5} at 90% C.L. The
three charged two-body final states h h-bar (h = pi^{+}, K^{+}, p) were
investigated for f_{J}(2220) production, with one, one, and two events found,
respectively. Limits at 90% C.L. of B(\Upsilon to gamma f_{J}) x B(f_{J} to h
h-bar) ~ 1.5 x 10^{-5} have been set for each of these modes. We compare our
results to measurements of other radiative Upsilon decays, to measurements of
radiative J/psi decays, and to theoretical predictions.Comment: 19 pages postscript, also available through
http://w4.lns.cornell.edu/public/CLNS, submitted to Physical Review
A Kinematically Complete Measurement of the Proton Structure Function F2 in the Resonance Region and Evaluation of Its Moments
We measured the inclusive electron-proton cross section in the nucleon
resonance region (W < 2.5 GeV) at momentum transfers Q**2 below 4.5 (GeV/c)**2
with the CLAS detector. The large acceptance of CLAS allowed for the first time
the measurement of the cross section in a large, contiguous two-dimensional
range of Q**2 and x, making it possible to perform an integration of the data
at fixed Q**2 over the whole significant x-interval. From these data we
extracted the structure function F2 and, by including other world data, we
studied the Q**2 evolution of its moments, Mn(Q**2), in order to estimate
higher twist contributions. The small statistical and systematic uncertainties
of the CLAS data allow a precise extraction of the higher twists and demand
significant improvements in theoretical predictions for a meaningful comparison
with new experimental results.Comment: revtex4 18 pp., 12 figure
Heavy quarkonium: progress, puzzles, and opportunities
A golden age for heavy quarkonium physics dawned a decade ago, initiated by
the confluence of exciting advances in quantum chromodynamics (QCD) and an
explosion of related experimental activity. The early years of this period were
chronicled in the Quarkonium Working Group (QWG) CERN Yellow Report (YR) in
2004, which presented a comprehensive review of the status of the field at that
time and provided specific recommendations for further progress. However, the
broad spectrum of subsequent breakthroughs, surprises, and continuing puzzles
could only be partially anticipated. Since the release of the YR, the BESII
program concluded only to give birth to BESIII; the -factories and CLEO-c
flourished; quarkonium production and polarization measurements at HERA and the
Tevatron matured; and heavy-ion collisions at RHIC have opened a window on the
deconfinement regime. All these experiments leave legacies of quality,
precision, and unsolved mysteries for quarkonium physics, and therefore beg for
continuing investigations. The plethora of newly-found quarkonium-like states
unleashed a flood of theoretical investigations into new forms of matter such
as quark-gluon hybrids, mesonic molecules, and tetraquarks. Measurements of the
spectroscopy, decays, production, and in-medium behavior of c\bar{c}, b\bar{b},
and b\bar{c} bound states have been shown to validate some theoretical
approaches to QCD and highlight lack of quantitative success for others. The
intriguing details of quarkonium suppression in heavy-ion collisions that have
emerged from RHIC have elevated the importance of separating hot- and
cold-nuclear-matter effects in quark-gluon plasma studies. This review
systematically addresses all these matters and concludes by prioritizing
directions for ongoing and future efforts.Comment: 182 pages, 112 figures. Editors: N. Brambilla, S. Eidelman, B. K.
Heltsley, R. Vogt. Section Coordinators: G. T. Bodwin, E. Eichten, A. D.
Frawley, A. B. Meyer, R. E. Mitchell, V. Papadimitriou, P. Petreczky, A. A.
Petrov, P. Robbe, A. Vair
Measurements of the Mass and Full-Width of the Meson
In a sample of 58 million events collected with the BES II detector,
the process J/ is observed in five different decay
channels: , , (with ), (with
) and . From a combined fit of all five
channels, we determine the mass and full-width of to be
MeV/ and
MeV/.Comment: 9 pages, 2 figures and 4 table. Submitted to Phys. Lett.
Inclusive Charmonium Production via Double in Annihilation
Motivated by the recent observation of double charm quark pair production by
the Belle Collaboration, we calculate the complete
inclusive production cross sections for , , and
(J=0, 1, 2) plus in annihilation through a
virtual photon. We consider both color-singlet and color-octet contributions,
and give the analytical expressions for these cross sections. The complete
color-singlet calculations are compared with the approximate fragmentation
calculations as functions of the center-of-mass energy . We find that
most of the fragmentation results substantially overestimate the cross sections
(e.g. by a factor of 4 for and ) at the Belle and
BaBar energy GeV. The fragmentation results become a good
approximation only when is higher than about 100GeV. We further
calculate the color-octet contributions to these cross sections with analytical
expressions. We find that while the color-octet contribution to
inclusive production via double charm is negligible (only about 3%), the
color-octet contributions to and can be significant.Comment: 23 pages, 9 figures; color-octet contributions to the double charm
inclusive production of J/psi and chi_{cJ} (J=0,1,2) are added; references
are added; No change for the color-singlet par
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