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Delayed Onset and Fast Rise of Prompt Optical-UV Emission from Gamma-Ray Bursts in Molecular Clouds
Observations imply that long \gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are originated from
explosions of massive stars, therefore they may occur in the molecular clouds
where their progenitors were born. We show here that the prompt optical-UV
emission from GRBs may be delayed due to the dust extinction, which can well
explain the observed optical delayed onset and fast rise in GRB 080319B. The
density and the size of the molecular cloud around GRB 080319B are roughly
constrained to be \sim10^3cm^{-3} and \sim 8pc, respectively. We also
investigate the other GRBs with prompt optical-UV data, and find similar values
of the densities and sizes of the local molecular clouds. The future
observations of prompt optical-UV emission from GRBs in subsecond timescale,
e.g., by UFFO-Pathfinder and SVOM-GWAC, will provide more evidence and probes
of the local GRB environments.Comment: 15 pages, 5 figures, RAA 13 (2013) 57-70, typo correctio
Implications on --glueball mixing from Decays
We point out that the recent Belle measurements of the decays imply large pseudoscalar glueball contents in the
meson. These decays are studied in the perturbative QCD
(PQCD) approach, considering the -- mixing, where
represents the pseudoscalar glueball. It is shown that the PQCD predictions for
the branching ratios agree well with the data
for the mixing angle between the flavor-singlet state
and the pure pseudoscalar glueball. Extending the formalism to the
--- tetramixing, the abnormally large observed branching ratios are also explained. The proposed mixing formalism is
applicable to other heavy meson decays into mesons, and could
be tested by future LHCb and Super- factory data.Comment: Improved version, references added, 7 pages, 1 figur
Study of the weak annihilation contributions in charmless decays
In this paper, in order to probe the spectator-scattering and weak
annihilation contributions in charmless (where stands for a
light vector meson) decays, we perform the -analyses for the end-point
parameters within the QCD factorization framework, under the constraints from
the measured , , and
decays. The fitted results indicate that the end-point
parameters in the factorizable and nonfactorizable annihilation topologies are
non-universal, which is also favored by the charmless and (where
stands for a light pseudo-scalar meson) decays observed in the previous
work. Moreover, the abnormal polarization fractions measured by the LHCb
collaboration can be reconciled through the weak annihilation corrections.
However, the branching ratio of decay exhibits a
tension between the data and theoretical result, which dominates the
contributions to in the fits. Using the fitted end-point
parameters, we update the theoretical results for the charmless
decays, which will be further tested by the LHCb and Belle-II experiments in
the near future.Comment: 31 pages, 4 figures, 6 table
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