Studying the Quark Antiquark Force with Inelastic Pion Electron Scattering

The concept of studying the internal structure of mesons is explored. Mesons, which are in principle two body quark antiquark interactions, may be much easier to understand than the nucleon. Measurements of the inelastic form factors to specific final states may permit careful direct studies of various components of the strong force. For example by looking at vector meson final states the spin flip amplitude can be isolated. Technical difficulties involved in a realistic experiment are examined. Experiments to some final states such as $\rho$, $K^*$ and $a_{0}$ are practical today.Comment: 9,UNDPDK-94-0

Pion and Kaon Electromagnetic Form Factors

We study the electromagnetic form factor of the pion and kaons at low-energies with the use of Chiral Perturbation Theory. The analysis is performed within the three flavour framework and at next-to-next-to-leading order. We explain carefully all the relevant consistency checks on the expressions, present full analytical results for the pion form factor and describe all the assumptions in the analysis. From the phenomenological point of view we make use of our expression and the available data to obtain the charge radius of the pion obtaining $_V^\pi=(0.452+-0.013) fm^2$, as well as the low-energy constant $L_9^r(m_\rho)= (5.93+-0.43)10^{-3}$. We also obtain experimental values for 3 combinations of order $p^6$ constants.Comment: 50 page

A Compact Beam Stop for a Rare Kaon Decay Experiment

We describe the development and testing of a novel beam stop for use in a rare kaon decay experiment at the Brookhaven AGS. The beam stop is located inside a dipole spectrometer magnet in close proximity to straw drift chambers and intercepts a high-intensity neutral hadron beam. The design process, involving both Monte Carlo simulations and beam tests of alternative beam-stop shielding arrangements, had the goal of minimizing the leakage of particles from the beam stop and the resulting hit rates in detectors, while preserving maximum acceptance for events of interest. The beam tests consisted of measurements of rates in drift chambers, scintilation counter hodoscopes, a gas threshold Cherenkov counter, and a lead glass array. Measurements were also made with a set of specialized detectors which were sensitive to low-energy neutrons, photons, and charged particles. Comparisons are made between these measurements and a detailed Monte Carlo simulation.Comment: 39 pages, 14 figures, submitted to Nuclear Instruments and Method

Light-cone QCD Sum Rules for the Λ\Lambda Baryon Electromagnetic Form Factors and its magnetic moment

We present the light-cone QCD sum rules up to twist 6 for the electromagnetic form factors of the $\Lambda$ baryon. To estimate the magnetic moment of the baryon, the magnetic form factor is fitted by the dipole formula. The numerical value of our estimation is $\mu_\Lambda=-(0.64\pm0.04)\mu_N$, which is in accordance with the experimental data and the existing theoretical results. We find that it is twist 4 but not the leading twist distribution amplitudes that dominate the results.Comment: 13 page, 7 figures, accepted for publication in Euro. Phys. J.

The π\pi, K+K^+, and K0K^0 electromagnetic form factors

The rainbow truncation of the quark Dyson-Schwinger equation is combined with the ladder Bethe-Salpeter equation for the meson amplitudes and the dressed quark-photon vertex in a self-consistent Poincar\'e-invariant study of the pion and kaon electromagnetic form factors in impulse approximation. We demonstrate explicitly that the current is conserved in this approach and that the obtained results are independent of the momentum partitioning in the Bethe-Salpeter amplitudes. With model gluon parameters previously fixed by the condensate, the pion mass and decay constant, and the kaon mass, the charge radii and spacelike form factors are found to be in good agreement with the experimental data.Comment: 8 pages, 6 figures, Revte

Effects of Symmetry Breaking on the Strong and Electroweak Interactions of the Vector Nonet

Starting from a chiral invariant and quark line rule conserving Lagrangian of pseudoscalar and vector nonets we introduce first and second order symmetry breaking as well as quark line rule violating terms and fit the parameters, at tree level, to many strong and electroweak processes. A number of predictions are made. The electroweak interactions are included in a manifestly gauge invariant manner. The resulting symmetry breaking pattern is discussed in detail. Specifically, for the ``strong'' interactions, we study all the vector meson masses and V -> \phi \phi decays, including isotopic spin violations. In the electroweak sector we study the { rho^0 , omega , phi } -> e^+e^- decays, { pi^+ , K^+ , K^0 } ``charge radii'', K_{l3} ``slope factor'' and the overall e^+e^- -> pi^+ pi^- process. It is hoped that the resulting model may be useful as a reasonable description of low energy physics in the range up to about 1 GeV.Comment: 43 pages (LaTeX), 5 PostScript figures are included as uuencoded-compressed-tar file at the en

A straw drift chamber spectrometer for studies of rare kaon decays

We describe the design, construction, readout, tests, and performance of planar drift chambers, based on 5 mm diameter copperized Mylar and Kapton straws, used in an experimental search for rare kaon decays. The experiment took place in the high-intensity neutral beam at the Alternating Gradient Synchrotron of Brookhaven National Laboratory, using a neutral beam stop, two analyzing dipoles, and redundant particle identification to remove backgrounds

Channel-Coupling Effects in High-Energy Hadron Collisions

The Two-Gluon Model of the Pomeron predicts strongly size-dependent high-energy hadron cross sections. Yet experimental cross sections for radially excited mesons appear surprisingly close in value. The strong coupling of these mesons in hadron collisions also predicted by the model permits a qualitative understanding of this puzzling behavior in terms of eigenmode propagation with a common eigen-$\sigma$. A detailed semiempirical coupled-channel model of the Pomeron is constructed to elucidate this and other features of high-energy hadron cross sections.Comment: 13 pages, latex, no figure

Improved upper limits on B(K{sub L}{sup 0} {r_arrow} {mu}e) and B(K{sub L}{sup 0} {r_arrow} ee) and a new value for B(K{sub L}{sup 0} {r_arrow} {mu}{mu})

The author gives recent results from E791 at BNL with improved upper limits on the branching fractions B(K{sub L}{sup 0} {r_arrow} {mu}e) and B(K{sub L}{sup 0} {r_arrow} ee) of 8.5 {times} 10{sup {minus}11} and 11.6 {times} 10{sup {minus}11} at 90% C.L. He also gives a preliminary result of a new measurement B(K{sub L}{sup 0} {r_arrow} {mu}{mu}) = 7.6 {+-} 0.5(stat) {+-} 0.4(syst) {times} 10{sup {minus}9}

High energy physics studies. Progress report for Task D

The major research activity of Task D has been collaboration in experiments E791 and E871 at Brookhaven National Laboratory. During the past year, the collaboration has published results of the second major run, nearly completed analysis of the final data from the experiment and reported some of these results in conferences. The authors now have a substantially better understanding of the potential backgrounds and systematic uncertainties in the experiment. This understanding is important for both the results to be derived from the present data and for future experiments. In addition, they have conducted extensive tests for the new experiment at Brookhaven. Their goal is to improve the sensitivity to rare decay modes of kaons by a factor of 20 over the final E791 result. In the coming year the authors will finish the final analysis of all data from the experiment, including a consistent reanalysis of all data and preparation of a Phys. Rev. D article describing the measurement. Assuming approval of E871 by BNL, they will finalize detailed design of the experiment and begin prototype testing and construction. In addition to the ongoing efforts on E791 and E871 at BNL, they have begun looking at the possibility of mounting a substantially improved experiment to be performed at the proposed Main Injector at Fermilab. This effort would be part of a Main Injector Kaon Facility. In this contract renewal request, they will review the current status of lepton flavor violation in K decays, summarize the status of the experiment, report in some detail on a number of the specific projects in which personnel supported by this contract have been involved, discuss the possibilities for future directions of the experiment, and list specific requests to the funding agency