10 research outputs found
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 , and 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 , as well
as the low-energy constant . We also obtain
experimental values for 3 combinations of order 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 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 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 , 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 , , and 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
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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-. 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
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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}
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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