Instantons and eta meson production near threshold in NN collisions

An enhancement for the η production in proton-neutron collisions as compared with that in proton-proton scattering has been recently observed. We present a calculation for the production cross section, in proton-neutron collisions near threshold, within instanton model for the QCD vacuum and show that a specific flavor dependent nonperturbative quark-gluon interaction related to instantons is able to explain the observed enhancement

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

Evidence for the flavor singlet axial anomaly related effects in ϕ\phi meson electromagnetic production at large momentum transfers

The gluonic contributions to the conventional PCAC formulas due to flavor singlet axial anomaly have been instrumental in explaining the mass of the $\eta^{\prime}$ and providing a plausible explanation for solving the spin crisis. We show that they also play an important role in the description of photo- and electroproduction of vector mesons at low energy and high momentum transfers. We calculate the contributions of this type to $\phi$ meson electromagnetic production in a model, which contains also a soft pomeron, and find agreement with recent CLAS data.Comment: 13 pages, 6 figures, Latex; final version to appear in Phys. Lett.

A mass formula for baryon resonances

Light-baryon resonances with u,d, and s quarks only can be classified using the non-relativistic quark model. When we assign to baryon resonances with total angular momenta J intrinsic orbital angular momenta L and spin S we make the following observations: plotting the squared masses of the light-baryon resonances against these intrinsic orbital angular momenta L, Delta's with even and odd parity can be described by the same Regge trajectory. For a given L, nucleon resonances with spin S=3/2 are approximately degenerate in mass with Delta resonances of same total orbital momentum L. To which total angular momentum L and S couple has no significant impact on the baryon mass. Nucleons with spin 1/2 are shifted in mass; the shift is - in units of squared masses - proportional to the component in the wave function which is antisymmetric in spin and flavor. Sequential resonances in the same partial wave are separated in mass square by the same spacing as observed in orbital angular momentum excitations. Based on these observations, a new baryon mass formula is proposed which reproduces nearly all known baryon masses.Comment: 4 pages, 1 figur

Gluonic effects in vector meson photoproduction at large momentum transfers

Non-perturbative QCD mechanisms are of fundamental importance in strong interaction physics. In particular, the flavor singlet axial anomaly leads to a gluonic pole mechanism which has been shown to explain the $\eta^{\prime}$ mass, violations of the OZI rule and more recently the proton spin. We show here that the interaction derived from the gluonic pole exchange explains the high momentum transfer behavior of the photoproduction cross sections of vector mesons at JLab energies.Comment: 10 pages, 6 figures, Latex; Completely rewritten versio

Instanton interpolating current for σ\sigma--tetraquark

We perform a QCD sum rule analysis for the light scalar meson $\sigma$ ($f_0(600)$) with a tetraquark current related to the instanton picture for QCD vacuum. We demonstrate that instanton current, including equal weights of scalar and pseudoscalar diquark-antidiquarks, leads to a strong cancelation between the contributions of high dimension operators in the operator product expansion (OPE). Furthermore, in the case of this current direct instanton contributions do not spoil the sum rules. Our calculation, obtained from the OPE up to dimension 10 operators, gives the mass of $\sigma$--meson around 780MeV.Comment: 11 pages, 7 figures, final version to be appeared in Phys. Lett.

Semi-inclusive Lambda_c^+ Leptoproductions and Polarized Gluon Distributions

In order to extract the behavior and magnitude of the spin-dependent gluon distribution, we propose a semi-inclusive $\Lambda_c^+$ production using unpolarized lepton beams and polarized proton targets. The correlation between the target proton spin and the spin of $\Lambda_c^+$ produced in the target fragmentation region might be very effective for testing various models of polarized gluons.Comment: 9 pages + 4 Postscript figures(2 PS files), LaTe

The Pauli form factor of the quark induced by instantons

The non-perturbative contribution to the Pauli form factor of the quark, $F_2(Q^2)$, is calculated within an instanton model for the QCD vacuum. It is shown that the instantons give a large negative contribution to the form factor.Comment: 9 pages, 2 figures, Late

Anomalous f_1 exchange in vector meson photoproduction asymmetries

We perform an analysis of the elastic production of vector mesons with polarized photon beams at high energy in order to investigate the validity of a recently proposed dynamical mechanism based on the dominance of the f_1 trajectory at large momentum transfer. The density matrix characterizing the angular distributions of the vector meson decays is calculated within an exchange model which includes the Pomeron and the f_1. The asymmetries of these decays turn out to be very useful to disentangle the role of these exchanges since their effect depends crucially on their quantum numbers which are different. The observables analyzed are accessible with present experimental facilities.Comment: 10 pages, REVTeX, 4 figures, some figures are corrected, conclusions unchange

Instanton induced quark dynamics and the pentaquark

We analyze the existence of the exotic Θ+ from the perspective of instanton induced quark dynamics. The 't Hooft interaction gives strong attraction in specific channels of the triquark uds¯ and diquark ud configurations. In particular it leads to a light uds¯ triquark cluster, with the mass around 750MeV, in the I=0, S=1/2 and color 3 configuration, and a light ud-diquark configuration, with mass 440MeV, in the I=0, S=0 and color {3¯} configuration. If we consider the pentaquark as a bound state of such triquark and diquark configurations in a relative L=1 state we obtain good agreement with the data. The small width of Θ+ has a natural explanation in this model