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Bilocal Field Approach and Semileptonic Heavy Meson Decays
In this paper we consider the bilocal field approach for . We obtain a
bilocal effective meson action with a potential kernel given in relativistic
covariant form. The corresponding Schwinger--Dyson and Bethe--Salpeter
equations are investigated in detail. By introducing weak interactions into the
theory we study heavy meson properties as decay constants and semileptonic
decay amplitudes. Thereby, the transition from the bilocal field description to
the heavy quark effective theory is discussed. Considering as example the
semileptonic decay of a pseudoscalar --meson into a pseudoscalar --meson
we obtain an integral expression for the corresponding Isgur--Wise function in
terms of meson wave functions.Comment: 27 pages and 2 figures (available upon request), DESY 92-07
Obama and Medvedev – Improving US-Russian relations
After Dmitry Medvedev delivered his message to the Federation Council here last week, news outlets in the U.S. and Britain jumped on the Russian president’s seemingly hostile rhetoric regarding the planned missile defense system to be placed in Poland and the Czech Republic. Russia, Medvedev said, would respond by planting a system in Kaliningrad, on the Baltic Sea. The New York Times, which accompanied its coverage with a photo of troops on parade in Red Square, focused on his harsh words as well as the fact that that he did not congratulate Barack Obama on his election victory
Mott dissociation of D-mesons at the chiral phase transition and anomalous J/Psi suppression
We investigate the in-medium modification of the charmonium breakup processes
due to the Mott-effect for D-mesons at the chiral phase transition. A model
calculation for the process J/Psi+pi --> D+D^*+ h.c. is presented which
demonstrates that threshold effects in the thermal averaged breakup cross
section can be explained as a Mott transition where final state quark-antiquark
bound states enter the continuum of resonant states at the QCD phase
transition. Applications to heavy-ion collisions within a modified Glauber
model scenario and the phenomenon of anomalous J/ suppression in the CERN
NA50 experiment are addressed.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures, uses JHEP.cls styl
in a hot and dense medium
The behavior of and in hot strange quark matter in weak
equilibrium with temperature, is investigated within the SU(3)
Nambu-Jona-Lasinio [NJL] model. Possible manifestations of restoration of
symmetries, by temperature or density, in the behavior of and
are discussed. The role played by the combined effect of temperature and
density in the nature of the phase transition and meson behavior is also
analyzed.Comment: 15 pages, 5 figures. Contribution to the Second International
Workshop on Hadron Physics, Effective Theories of Low Energy QCD, 25-29
September, 2002 (Coimbra, Portugal
Zubok, Leffler…
Since fellow IDEAS blogger Nick Kitchen has started us off with a post on IR theory, I’m going to take the liberty of writing on of the first posts from the history side of our humble office on Aldwych
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