813 research outputs found
Complex amplitude phase motion in Dalitz plot heavy meson three body decay
We propose a method to determine the phase motion of a complex amplitude in
three body heavy meson decays. We show that the phase variation of a complex
amplitude can be directly revealed through the interference observed in the
Dalitz Plot region where it crosses with a well established resonant state.
This method could be applied to the decays \d3pi and , to
determine whether the low mass states and , suggested by E791,
have phase motions compatible with resonances.Comment: To appear in Physics Letters
Increase in environmental temperature affects exploratory behaviour, anxiety and social preference in Danio rerio
The aim of this work is to investigate the effect of a temperature increase on the behaviour of adult zebrafish (Danio rerio) maintained for 21 days at 34 °C (treatment) and 26 °C (control). The temperatures chosen are within the vital range of zebrafish and correspond to temperatures that this species encounters in the natural environment. Previous results showed that the same treatment affects the brain proteome and the behaviour of adult zebrafish by producing alterations in the proteins involved in neurotransmitter release and synaptic function and impairing fish exploratory behaviour. In this study, we have investigated the performance of treated and control zebrafish during environmental exploration by using four behavioural tests (novel tank diving, light and dark preference, social preference and mirror biting) that are paradigms for assessing the state of anxiety, boldness, social preference and aggressive behaviour, respectively. The results showed that heat treatment reduces anxiety and increases the boldness of zebrafish, which spent more time in potentially dangerous areas of the tank such as the top and the uncovered bright area and at a distance from the social group, thus decreasing protection for the zebrafish. These data suggest that the increase in ambient temperature may compromise zebrafish survival rate in the natural environment
Effect of CH addition on excess electron mobility in liquid Kr
The excess electrons mobility has been measured recently in liquid
mixtures of Kr and CH as a function of the electric field up to and of the CH concentration up to at
temperatures fairly close to the normal boiling point of Kr
(folegani). We present here new data which extend the
previous set in the region of low electric field. The experimental results are
interpreted in terms of a kinetic model previously proposed to explain the
concentration dependent behavior of in liquid Ar--Kr and Ar--Xe mixtures.
The main result is that CH is more effective in enhancing
energy--transfer rather than momentum--transfer in comparison with mixtures of
liquified noble gases. The field dependence of is quite complicate. In
particular, at intermediate values of the field, there appears to be a
crossover between two different electric--field dependent behaviors of
The electric field strength at crossover is well correlated with the
concentration of CH This fact suggests that different excitations of the
molecular solute might be involved in the momentum-- and energy--transfer
processes for different values of the mean electron energy.Comment: 17, pages,7 figures, RevTeX4, submitted to J.Chem.Phy
Electron drift velocity measurements in liquid krypton–methane mixtures
Abstract Electron drift velocities have been measured in liquid krypton, pure and mixed with methane at different concentrations (1–10% in volume) versus electric field strength, and a possible effect of methane on electron lifetime has been investigated. While no effect on lifetime could be detected, since lifetimes were in all cases longer than what measurable, a very large increase in drift velocity (up to a factor 6) has been measured
Corrections to the generalized vector dominance due to diffractive rho_3 production
The idea of the vector dominance is still in use in various analyses of
experimental data of photon-hadron reactions. It makes sense, therefore, to
recast results of microscopic calculations of such reactions in this language.
Here we present the diffractive DIS production as a specific
correction to the generalized vector dominance. We perform a coupled channel
analysis of spin-orbital excitations in diffractive photoproduction and
reiterate the point that rho_3 in diffractive DIS will be sensitive to a novel
aspect of diffraction.Comment: 12 pages, 2 figure
Discrete Ambiguities in the Measurement of the Weak Phase Gamma
Several time-independent methods have been devised for measuring the phase
gamma of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa unitarity triangle. It is shown that
such measurements generally suffer from discrete ambiguity which is at least
8-fold, not 4-fold as commonly stated. This has serious experimental
implications, which are explored in methods involving B->DK decays. The
measurement sensitivity and new physics discovery potential are estimated using
a full Monte Carlo detector simulation with realistic background estimates.Comment: 15 pages, 2 figures, fixed typ
Hadronic Charmed Meson Decays Involving Tensor Mesons
Charmed meson decays into a pseudoscalar meson P and a tensor meson T are
studied. The charm to tensor meson transition form factors are evaluated in the
Isgur-Scora-Grinstein-Wise (ISGW) quark model. It is shown that the
Cabibbo-allowed decay is dominated by the
W-annihilation contribution and has the largest branching ratio in
decays. We argue that the Cabibbo-suppressed mode
should be suppressed by one order of magnitude relative to . When the finite width effect of the tensor resonances is taken
into account, the decay rate of is generally enhanced by a factor of
. Except for , the predicted branching ratios
of decays are in general too small by one to two orders of magnitude
compared to experiment. However, it is very unlikely that the
transition form factors can be enhanced by a factor of within the
ISGW quark model to account for the discrepancy between theory and experiment.
As many of the current data are still preliminary and lack sufficient statistic
significance, more accurate measurements are needed to pin down the issue.Comment: 11 page
Implications of factorization for the determination of hadronic form factors in D_s^+ \ra \phi transition
Using factorization we determine the allowed domains of the ratios of form
factors, and , from the experimentally
measured ratio R_h \equiv \Gamma(D_s^+ \ra \phi \rho^+)/\Gamma(D_s^+ \ra \phi
\pi^+) assuming three different scenarios for the -dependence of the form
factors. We find that the allowed domains overlap with those obtained by using
the experimentally measured ratio R_{s\ell} = \Gamma(D^+_s \ra \phi \ell^+
\nu_{\ell})/\Gamma(D^+_s \ra \phi \pi^+) provided that the phenomenological
parameter is . Such a comparison presents a genuine test of
factorization. We calculate the longitudinal polarization fraction,
\Gamma_L/\Gamma \equiv \Gamma(D_s^+ \ra \phi_L \rho^+_L)/\Gamma(D_s^+ \ra \phi
\rho^+), in the three scenarios for the -dependence of the form factors
and emphasize the importance of measuring . Finally we
discuss the -distribution of the semileptonic decay and find that it is
rather insensitive to the scenarios for the -dependence of the form
factors, and unless very accurate data can be obtained it is unlikely to
discriminate between the different scenarios. Useful information on the value
of might be obtained by the magnitude of the -distribution near . However the most precise information on and would come from the
knowledge of the longitudinal and left-right transverse polarizations of the
final vector mesons in hadronic and/or semileptonic decays.Comment: Latex 10 pages( 4 figures), PAR/LPTHE/94-3
Enhanced CP Violation with Modes and Extraction of the CKM Angle gamma
The Gronau-London-Wyler (GLW) method extracts the CKM angle by
measuring decay rates involving mesons. Since that
method necessitates the interference between two amplitudes that are
significantly different in magnitude, the resulting asymmetries tend to be
small. CP violation can be greatly enhanced for decays to final states that are
common to both D^0 and and that are not CP eigenstates. In
particular, large asymmetries are possible for final states f such that is doubly Cabibbo suppressed while is Cabibbo allowed.
The measurement of interference effects in two such modes allows the extraction
of without prior knowledge of , which
may be difficult to determine due to backgrounds.Comment: 12 pages, LaTeX, no figure
Measurement of the Omega_c Lifetime
We present the measurement of the lifetime of the Omega_c we have performed
using three independent data samples from two different decay modes. Using a
Sigma- beam of 340 GeV/c we have obtained clean signals for the Omega_c
decaying into Xi- K- pi+ pi+ and Omega- pi+ pi- pi+, avoiding topological cuts
normally used in charm analysis. The short but measurable lifetime of the
Omega_c is demonstrated by a clear enhancement of the signals at short but
finite decay lengths. Using a continuous maximum likelihood method we
determined the lifetime to be tau(Omega_c) = 55 +13-11(stat) +18-23(syst) fs.
This makes the Omega_c the shortest living weakly decaying particle observed so
far. The short value of the lifetime confirms the predicted pattern of the
charmed baryon lifetimes and demonstrates that the strong interaction plays a
vital role in the lifetimes of charmed hadrons.Comment: 15 pages, including 7 figures; gzipped, uuencoded postscrip
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