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Decuplet baryon magnetic moments in a QCD-based quark model beyond quenched approximation
We study the decuplet baryon magnetic moments in a QCD-based quark model
beyond quenched approximation. Our approach for unquenching the theory is based
on the heavy baryon perturbation theory in which the axial couplings for baryon
- meson and the meson-meson-photon couplings from the chiral perturbation
theory are used together with the QM moment couplings. It also involves the
introduction of a form factor characterizing the structure of baryons
considered as composite particles. Using the parameters obtained from fitting
the octet baryon magnetic moments, we predict the decuplet baryon magnetic
moments. The magnetic moment is found to be in good agreement with
experiment: is predicted to be compared to the
experimental result of (2.02 0.05) .Comment: 19 pages, 2 figure
Electromagnetic Moments of the Baryon Decuplet
We compute the leading contributions to the magnetic dipole and electric
quadrupole moments of the baryon decuplet in chiral perturbation theory. The
measured value for the magnetic moment of the is used to determine
the local counterterm for the magnetic moments. We compare the chiral
perturbation theory predictions for the magnetic moments of the decuplet with
those of the baryon octet and find reasonable agreement with the predictions of
the large-- limit of QCD. The leading contribution to the quadrupole
moment of the and other members of the decuplet comes from one--loop
graphs. The pionic contribution is shown to be proportional to (and so
will not contribute to the quadrupole moment of nuclei), while the
contribution from kaons has both isovector and isoscalar components. The chiral
logarithmic enhancement of both pion and kaon loops has a coefficient that
vanishes in the limit. The third allowed moment, the magnetic octupole,
is shown to be dominated by a local counterterm with corrections arising at two
loops. We briefly mention the strange counterparts of these moments.Comment: Uses harvmac.tex, 15 pages with 3 PostScript figures packed using
uufiles. UCSD/PTH 93-22, QUSTH-93-05, Duke-TH-93-5
1/N_c Expansion of the Heavy Baryon Isgur-Wise Functions
The 1/N_c expansion of the heavy baryon Isgur-Wise functions is discussed.
Because of the contracted SU(2N_f) light quark spin-flavor symmetry, the
universality relations among the Isgur-Wise functions of \Lambda_b to \Lambda_c
and \Sigma_b^{(*)} to \Sigma_c^{(*)} are valid up to the order of 1/N_c^2.Comment: 7 pages, latex, no figures, to appear in Phys. Rev.
Excited Baryons in the Large Limit
The spectrum of excited -type heavy baryons is considered in the
large limit. The universal form factors for semileptonic
decay to excited charmed baryons are calculated in the large limit. We
find that the Bjorken sum rule (for the slope of the Isgur--Wise function) and
Voloshin sum rule (for the mass of the light degrees of freedom) are saturated
by the first doublet of excited states.Comment: 9 pages, use phyzzx, CALT-68-191
Probing Hadronic Structure with The Decay
We compute the branching ratio for and
in chiral perturbation theory and find that
both decays should be observable at CEBAF. With sufficiently low thresholds on
the invariant mass a branching ratio of may be observed
for . For the decay
mode we predict a branching ratio of . The dependence of the
M1 and E2 amplitudes on the momentum transfer will provide a useful test of
chiral perturbation theory which predicts variation over the
allowed kinematic range.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figures, UCSD/PTH 93-06, QUSTH-93-02, Duke-TH-93-4
Effective field theory and the quark model
We analyze the connections between the quark model (QM) and the description
of hadrons in the low-momentum limit of heavy-baryon effective field theory in
QCD. By using a three-flavor-index representation for the effective baryon
fields, we show that the ``nonrelativistic'' constituent QM for baryon masses
and moments is completely equivalent through O(m_s) to a parametrization of the
relativistic field theory in a general spin--flavor basis. The flavor and spin
variables can be identified with those of effective valence quarks. Conversely,
the spin-flavor description clarifies the structure and dynamical
interpretation of the chiral expansion in effective field theory, and provides
a direct connection between the field theory and the semirelativistic models
for hadrons used in successful dynamical calculations. This allows dynamical
information to be incorporated directly into the chiral expansion. We find, for
example, that the striking success of the additive QM for baryon magnetic
moments is a consequence of the relative smallness of the non-additive
spin-dependent corrections.Comment: 25 pages, revtex, no figure
Baryons with Two Heavy Quarks as Solitons
Using the chiral soliton model and heavy quark symmetry we study baryons
containing two heavy quarks. If there exists a stable (under strong
interactions) meson consisting of two heavy quarks and two light ones, then we
find that there always exists a state of this meson bound to a chiral soliton
and to a chiral anti-soliton, corresponding to a two heavy quark baryon and a
baryon containing two heavy anti-quarks and five light quarks, or a
``heptaquark".Comment: 7 pages and 2 postscript figures appended, LaTex, UCI-TR 94-3
On the structure of large N cancellations in baryon chiral perturbation theory
We show how to compute loop graphs in heavy baryon chiral perturbation theory
including the full functional dependence on the ratio of the Delta--nucleon
mass difference to the pion mass, while at the same time automatically
incorporating the 1/N cancellations that follow from the large-N spin-flavor
symmetry of baryons in QCD. The one-loop renormalization of the baryon axial
vector current is studied to demonstrate the procedure. A new cancellation is
identified in the one-loop contribution to the baryon axial vector current. We
show that loop corrections to the axial vector currents are exceptionally
sensitive to deviations of the ratios of baryon-pion axial couplings from SU(6)
values
Measurement of the half-life of 198Au in a non-metal: High-precision measurement shows no host-material dependence
We have measured the half-life of the beta decay of 198Au to be 2.6948(9) d,
with the nuclide sited in an insulating environment. Comparing this result with
the half-life we measured previously with a metallic environment, we find the
half-lives in both environments to be the same within 0.04%, thus contradicting
a prediction that screening from a "plasma" of quasi-free electrons in a metal
increases the half-life by as much as 7%
Heavy Baryon Masses in the and Expansions
The masses of baryons containing a single heavy quark are studied in a
combined expansion in , and flavor symmetry breaking.
Heavy quark baryon mass splittings are related to mass splittings of the octet
and decuplet baryons. The , and are
predicted to the level of a few MeV. A number of bottom baryon mass splittings
are predicted very accurately.Comment: 21 pages, REVtex, version to appear Phys. Rev.
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