Probing nucleon strangeness in phi electroproduction

We investigate $\phi$ meson electroproduction to probe the hidden strangeness content of the nucleon. We found that even a small amount of the $s\bar{s}$ admixture in the nucleon wavefunction can lead to a significant change in several double polarization asymmetries in $\phi$ electroproduction, which can be tested experimentally at current electron facilities.Comment: 3 pages, 1 figure (2 eps files), LaTeX2e with espcrc1.sty, Talk at the XVI International Conference on Few-Body Problems in Physics (FB16), Taipei, Taiwan, March 6-10, 200

Semileptonic B Decays and Determination of |Vub|

Semileptonic decays of the B mesons provide an excellent probe for the weak and strong interactions of the bottom quark. The large data samples collected at the B Factories have pushed the experimental studies of the semileptonic B decays to a new height and stimulated significant theoretical developments. I review recent progresses in this fast-evolving field, with an emphasis on the determination of the magnitude of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix element |Vub|.Comment: 16 pages, 4 figures, accepted by Mod. Phys. Lett.

Probing nucleon strangeness structure with phi electroproduction

We study the possibility to constrain the hidden strangeness content of the nucleon by means of the polarization observables in phi meson electroproduction. We consider the OZI evading direct knockout mechanism that arises from the non-vanishing s\bar{s} sea quark admixture of the nucleon as well as the background of the dominant diffractive and the one-boson-exchange processes. Large sensitivity on the nucleon strangeness are found in several beam-target and beam-recoil double polarization observables. The small \sqrt{s} and W region, which is accesible at some of the current high-energy electron facilities, is found to be the optimal energy region for extracting out the OZI evasion process.Comment: 8 pages, LaTeX2e, elsart.cls, 3 figures (4 eps files

Spectra of Doubly Heavy Quark Baryons

Baryons containing two heavy quarks are treated in the Born-Oppenheimer approximation. Schr\"odinger equation for two center Coulomb plus harmonic oscillator potential is solved by the method of ethalon equation at large intercenter separations. Asymptotical expansions for energy term and wave function are obtained in the analytical form. Using those formulas, the energy spectra of doubly heavy baryons with various quark compositions are calculated analytically.Comment: 19 pages, latex2e, published at PRC61(2000)04520

On a possible manifestation of f_1 trajectory in J/psi photoproduction

We analyze a possible manifestation of f_1-trajectory in elastic J/psi photoproduction at high energy and large momentum transfer. Inspite of the small contribution of f_1-trajectory in total cross sections, it becomes significant in various spin observables. In particular, we show that the crucial test for f_1-exchange can be made by measuring the single beam- and double parity- and beam-target asymmetries at large momentum transfers, where a strong deviation from the exchange of conventional Pomerons is expected. This effect is caused by the interference of natural (Pomeron) and unnatural (f_1) parity exchange parts of amplitude in the region where their contributions become comparable to each other and might be interesting to observe in forthcoming experiments, if feasible. .Comment: 8 pages, 10 figures. To be published in PL

The role of secondary Reggeons in central meson production

We estimate the contribution of f_2 trajectory exchange to the central \eta and \eta^\prime production. It is shown that secondary Reggeons may give a large contribution to processes of double diffractive meson production at high energy.Comment: 7 pages, Latex, 5 figure

Study of B→K∗ρ,K∗ωB\to K^* \rho, K^*\omega Decays with Polarization in Perturbative QCD Approach

The $B \to K^{*}\rho$, $K^{*}\omega$ decays are useful to determine the CKM angle $\phi_3=\gamma$. Their polarization fractions are also interesting since the polarization puzzle of the $B\to \phi K^*$ decay. We study these decays in the perturbative QCD approach based on $k_T$ factorization. After calculating of the non-factorizable and annihilation type contributions, in addition to the conventional factorizable contributions, we find that the contributions from the annihilation diagrams are crucial. They give dominant contribution to the strong phases and suppress the longitudinal polarizations. Our results agree with the current existing data. We also predict a sizable direct CP asymmetries in $B^+ \to K^{*+}\rho^0$, $B^0 \to K^{*+}\rho^-$, and $B^+ \to K^{*+}\omega$ decays, which can be tested by the oncoming measurements in the B factory experiments.Comment: 15 pages, latex, including 4 figure