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A study of the - coupled systems
We study the strangeness meson-baryon systems to obtain improved
and amplitudes and to look for a possible resonance formation by the
- coupled interaction. We obtain amplitudes for light vector
meson-baryon systems by implementing the -, -, - channel diagrams and
a contact interaction. The pseudoscalar meson-baryon interactions are obtained
by relying on the Weinberg-Tomozawa theorem. The transition amplitudes between
the systems consisting of pseudoscalars and vector mesons are calculated by
extending the Kroll-Ruderman term for pion photoproduction replacing the photon
by a vector meson. We fix the subtraction constants required to calculate the
loops by fitting our amplitudes to the data available for the isospin 0
and 1 -wave phase shifts. We provide the scattering lengths and the total
cross sections for the and systems obtained in our model, which
can be useful in future in-medium calculations. Our amplitudes do not
correspond to formation of any resonance in none of the isospin and spin
configurations.Comment: Published version, sent to avoid confusions recently noticed by
author
On the absorption and production cross sections of and
We have computed the isospin and spin averaged cross sections of the
processes and , which are crucial in the
determination of the abundances of and in heavy ion collisions.
Improving previous calculations, we have considered several mechanisms which
were missing, such as the exchange of axial and vector resonances (,
, , etc...) and also other processes such as and . We find that
some of these mechanisms give important contributions to the cross section. Our
results also suggest that, in a hadron gas, production might be more
important than its absorption
production and absorption in a hot hadron gas
We calculate the time evolution of the abundance in the hot hadron
gas produced in the late stage of heavy ion collisions. We use effective field
Lagrangians to obtain the production and dissociation cross sections of
. In this evaluation we include diagrams involving the anomalous
couplings and and also the
couplings of the with charged and mesons. With these new
terms the interaction cross sections are much larger than those found
in previous works. Using these cross sections as input in rate equations, we
conclude that during the expansion and cooling of the hadronic gas, the number
of , originally produced at the end of the mixed QGP/hadron gas phase,
is reduced by a factor of 4.Comment: 8 pages, 4 figure
Three body systems with strangeness and exotic systems
We report on four 's and three 's, in the 1500 - 1800 MeV
region, as two meson - one baryon S-wave resonances found by solving
the Faddeev equations in the coupled channel approach, which can be associated
to the existing = -1, low lying baryon resonances. On the
other hand we also report on a new, hidden strangeness state, mostly made
of , with mass around 1920 MeV, which we think could be
responsible for the peak seen in the around this
energy. Finally we address a very novel topic in which we show how few body
systems of several mesons can be produced, with their spins aligned up
to J=6, and how these states found theoretically can be associated to several
known mesons with spins J=2,3,4,5,6.Comment: Talk at the 21st European Conference on Few Body Problems in Physics,
Salamanca, Sep. 201
Passive microrheology of soft materials with atomic force microscopy: A wavelet-based spectral analysis
International audienceCompared to active microrheology where a known force or modulation is periodically imposed to a soft material, passive microrheology relies on the spectral analysis of the spontaneous motion of tracers inherent or external to the material. Passive microrheology studies of soft or living materials with atomic force microscopy (AFM) cantilever tips are rather rare because, in the spectral densities, the rheological response of the materials is hardly distinguishable from other sources of random or periodic perturbations. To circumvent this difficulty, we propose here a wavelet-based decomposition of AFM cantilever tip fluctuations and we show that when applying this multi-scale method to soft polymer layers and to living myoblasts, the structural damping exponents of these soft materials can be retrieved. Local stiffness and internal friction of soft materials (passive or active such as living cells) have lately been addressed at the nanoscale thanks to the development of pico-to nano-Newton force sensing systems and of nanome-ter resolution position detection devices. 1 Atomic force mi-croscopy (AFM) is one of these methods, where a sharply tipped flexible cantilever is indented inside a material to extract its local viscoelasticity from the shift and spreading of the cantilever spectral resonance modes. 2â4 However, these estimations are limited to rather narrow frequency bands surrounding the cantilever resonance modes or their higher harmonics. Spectral decomposition of cantilever fluctuations in contact with soft living tissues in the low frequency range has more rarely been explored. The few attempts which can be found in the literature were performed with small amplitude harmonic excitations (50 nm) of the sample position driven by a piezo-translator, in the 0.1 to 100 Hz frequency range, for a small and finite number of frequencies. 5,6 Whereas passive (driven by thermal fluctuations) microrheology has been performed for the past two decades by a variety of techniques capturing micro-probe spatial fluctuations , 7 it has not been applied yet to AFM cantilever fluctuations. The limitation of AFM-based passive rheology in the low frequency range comes from the mixing of the background vibrations of the liquid chamber with the cantilever fluctuations given by the rheological response of the material which are difficult to disentangle by standard FFT-based spectral averaging methods. In this work, we show that in quasi-stationary situations, these limitations can be circumvented using a wavelet-based spectral analysis of micro-cantilever fluctuations under passive excitation. Two experimental applications to passive polymer layers and living adherent myoblast cells are reported. Based on the generalized Stokes-Einstein relation (GSER) and associated generalizing assumptions, 8 passive microrheology of soft materials enables the extraction of the frequency-dependent complex modulus GĂ°xĂ which is common to a large class of soft materials (foams, emulsions, slur-ries, and cells). 9â11 The observed scaling laws are explained by a characteristic structural disorder and the metastability of these materials which are embodied under the name of " soft glassy materials " or structural damping model. 12 Their complex shear modulus behaves a
Delta rho pi interaction leading to N* and Delta* resonances
We have performed a calculation for the three body system
by using the fixed center approximation to Faddeev equations, taking the
interaction between and , and, and and
from the chiral unitary approach. We find several peaks in the modulus
squared of the three-body scattering amplitude, indicating the existence of
resonances, which can be associated to known and and baryon states.Comment: Presented at the 21st European Conference on Few-Body Problems in
Physics, Salamanca, Spain, 30 August - 3 September 201
Recent Developments in Chiral Unitary Dynamics of Resonances
In this talk I summarize recent findings made on the description of axial
vector mesons as dynamically generated states from the interaction of
peseudoscalar mesons and vector mesons, dedicating some attention to the two
states. Then I review the generation of open and hidden charm
scalar and axial states. Finally, I present recent results showing that the low
lying baryon resonances for S=-1 can be obtained as bound states or
resonances of two mesons and one baryon in coupled channels dynamics.Comment: Talk at the International Conference on Hadron Physics, Troia07,
Canakkale, Turkey, Sep. 2007 and at the Chiral Symmetry in Hadron and Nuclear
Physics Workshop, Chiral07, Osaka, November 200
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