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ESC NN-Potentials in Momentum Space. II. Meson-Pair Exchange Potentials
The partial wave projection of the Nijmegen soft-core potential model for
Meson-Pair-Exchange (MPE) for NN-scattering in momentum space is presented.
Here, nucleon-nucleon momentum space MPE-potentials are NN-interactions where
either one or both nucleons contains a meson-pair vertex. Dynamically, the
meson-pair vertices can be viewed as describing in an effective way (part of)
the effects of heavy-meson exchange and meson-nucleon resonances. From the
point of view of ``duality,'' these two kinds of contribution are roughly
equivalent. Part of the MPE-vertices can be found in the chiral-invariant
phenomenological Lagrangians that have a basis in spontaneous broken chiral
symmetry. It is shown that the MPE-interactions are a very important component
of the nuclear force, which indeed enables a very succesful description of the
low and medium energy NN-data. Here we present a precise fit to the NN-data
with the extended-soft-core (ESC) model containing OBE-, PS-PS-, and
MPE-potentials. An excellent description of the NN-data for
MeV is presented and discussed. Phase shifts are given and a is reached.Comment: 27 pages, 5 PostScript figures, revtex
Extended-soft-core Baryon-Baryon Model II. Hyperon-Nucleon Interaction
The YN results are presented from the Extended-soft-core (ESC) interactions.
They consist of local- and non-local-potentials due to (i) One-boson-exchange
(OBE), with pseudoscalar-, vector-, scalar-, and axial-vector-nonets, (ii)
Diffractive exchanges, (iii) Two-pseudoscalar exchange, and (iv)
Meson-pair-exchange (MPE). This model, called ESC04, describes NN and YN in a
unified way using broken flavor SU(3)-symmetry. Novel ingredients are the
inclusion of (i) the axial-vector-mesons, (ii) a zero in the scalar- and
axial-vector meson form factors. We describe simultaneous fits to the NN- and
YN-data, using four options in the ESC-model. Very good fits were obtained.
G-matrix calculations with these four options are also reported. The obtained
well depths (U_\Lambda, U_\Sigma, U_\Xi) reveal distinct features of ESC04a-d.
The \Lambda\Lambda-interactions are demonstrated to be consistent with the
observed data of_{\Lambda\Lambda}^6He. The possible three-body effects are
investigated by considering phenomenologically the changes of the vector-meson
masses in a nuclear medium.Comment: preprint vesion 66 pages, two-column version 27 pages, 17 figure
Strong Coupling Constant from Scaling Violations in Fragmentation Functions
We present a new determination of the strong coupling constant alpha_s
through the scaling violations in the fragmentation functions for charged
pions, charged kaons, and protons. In our fit we include the latest e+e-
annihilation data from CERN LEP1 and SLAC SLC on the Z-boson resonance and
older, yet very precise data from SLAC PEP at center-of-mass energy sqrt(s)=29
GeV. A new world average of alpha_s is given.Comment: 10 pages, 3 eps figue
Soft two-meson-exchange nucleon-nucleon potentials. II. One-pair and two-pair diagrams
Two-meson-exchange nucleon-nucleon potentials are derived where either one or
both nucleons contains a pair vertex. Physically, the meson-pair vertices are
meant to describe in an effective way (part of) the effects of heavy-meson
exchange and meson-nucleon resonances. {}From the point of view of ``duality,''
these two kinds of contribution are roughly equivalent. The various
possibilities for meson pairs coupling to the nucleon are inspired by the
chiral-invariant phenomenological Lagrangians that have appeared in the
literature. The coupling constants are fixed using the linear model.
We show that the inclusion of these two-meson exchanges gives a significant
improvement over a potential model including only the standard one-boson
exchanges.Comment: 21 pages RevTeX, 7 postscript figures; revised version as to appear
in Phys. Rev.
The nucleon-sigma coupling constant in QCD Sum Rules
The external-field QCD Sum Rules method is used to evaluate the coupling
constant of the light isoscalar-scalar meson (``'' or \epsilon) to the
nucleon. The contributions that come from the excited nucleon states and the
response of the continuum threshold to the external field are calculated. The
obtained value of the coupling constant is compatible with the large value
required in one-boson exchange potential models of the two-nucleon interaction.Comment: 11 pages, 4 figure
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