218 research outputs found
Constructing Hybrid Baryons with Flux Tubes
Hybrid baryon states are described in quark potential models as having
explicit excitation of the gluon degrees of freedom. Such states are described
in a model motivated by the strong coupling limit of Hamiltonian lattice gauge
theory, where three flux tubes meeting at a junction play the role of the glue.
The adiabatic approximation for the quark motion is used, and the flux tubes
and junction are modeled by beads which are attracted to each other and the
quarks by a linear potential, and vibrate in various string modes. Quantum
numbers and estimates of the energies of the lightest hybrid baryons are
provided.Comment: 4 pages, RevTeX. Submitted to Physical Review Letter
Special relativity constraints on the effective constituent theory of hybrids
We consider a simplified constituent model for relativistic
strong-interaction decays of hybrid mesons. The model is constructed using
rules of renormalization group procedure for effective particles in light-front
quantum field theory, which enables us to introduce low-energy phenomenological
parameters. Boost covariance is kinematical and special relativity constraints
are reduced to the requirements of rotational symmetry. For a hybrid meson
decaying into two mesons through dissociation of a constituent gluon into a
quark-anti-quark pair, the simplified constituent model leads to a rotationally
symmetric decay amplitude if the hybrid meson state is made of a constituent
gluon and a quark-anti-quark pair of size several times smaller than the
distance between the gluon and the pair, as if the pair originated from one
gluon in a gluonium state in the same effective theory.Comment: 11 pages, 5 figure
A schematic model for QCD I: Low energy meson states
A simple model for QCD is presented, which is able to reproduce the meson
spectrum at low energy. The model is a Lipkin type model for quarks coupled to
gluons. The basic building blocks are pairs of quark-antiquarks coupled to a
definite flavor and spin. These pairs are coupled to pairs of gluons with spin
zero. The multiplicity problem, which dictates that a given experimental state
can be described in various manners, is removed when a particle-mixing
interaction is turned on. In this first paper of a series we concentrates on
the discussion of meson states at low energy, the so-called zero temperature
limit of the theory. The treatment of baryonic states is indicated, also.Comment: 29 pages, 6 figures. submitted to Phys. Rev.
and
Recently Babar Collaboration reported a new state
and Belle Collaboration observed . We investigate the strong
decays of the excited states using the model. After
comparing the theoretical decay widths and decay patterns with the available
experimental data, we tend to conclude: (1) is probably the
state although the
assignment is not completely excluded; (2) seems unlikely to be
the and candidate; (3)
as either a or state is
consistent with the experimental data; (4) experimental search of
in the channels , , and
will be crucial to distinguish the above two possibilities.Comment: 18 pages, 7 figures, 2 tables. Some discussions added. The final
version to appear at EPJ
Euclidean Approach to the Entropy for a Scalar Field in Rindler-like Space-Times
The off-shell entropy for a massless scalar field in a D-dimensional
Rindler-like space-time is investigated within the conical Euclidean approach
in the manifold C_\be\times\M^N, C_\be being the 2-dimensional cone, making
use of the zeta-function regularisation. Due to the presence of conical
singularities, it is shown that the relation between the zeta-function and the
heat kernel is non trivial and, as first pointed out by Cheeger, requires a
separation between small and large eigenvalues of the Laplace operator. As a
consequence, in the massless case, the (naive) non existence of the Mellin
transform is by-passed by the Cheeger's analytical continuation of the
zeta-function on manifold with conical singularities. Furthermore, the
continuous spectrum leads to the introduction of smeared traces. In general, it
is pointed out that the presence of the divergences may depend on the smearing
function and they arise in removing the smearing cutoff. With a simple choice
of the smearing function, horizon divergences in the thermodynamical quantities
are recovered and these are similar to the divergences found by means of
off-shell methods like the brick wall model, the optical conformal
transformation techniques or the canonical path integral method.Comment: 17 pages, LaTex. A sign error corrected and few comments adde
Theoretical description of deformed proton emitters: nonadiabatic coupled-channel method
The newly developed nonadiabatic method based on the coupled-channel
Schroedinger equation with Gamow states is used to study the phenomenon of
proton radioactivity. The new method, adopting the weak coupling regime of the
particle-plus-rotor model, allows for the inclusion of excitations in the
daughter nucleus. This can lead to rather different predictions for lifetimes
and branching ratios as compared to the standard adiabatic approximation
corresponding to the strong coupling scheme. Calculations are performed for
several experimentally seen, non-spherical nuclei beyond the proton dripline.
By comparing theory and experiment, we are able to characterize the angular
momentum content of the observed narrow resonance.Comment: 12 pages including 10 figure
Strong Decays of Strange Quarkonia
In this paper we evaluate strong decay amplitudes and partial widths of
strange mesons (strangeonia and kaonia) in the 3P0 decay model. We give
numerical results for all energetically allowed open-flavor two-body decay
modes of all nsbar and ssbar strange mesons in the 1S, 2S, 3S, 1P, 2P, 1D and
1F multiplets, comprising strong decays of a total of 43 resonances into 525
two-body modes, with 891 numerically evaluated amplitudes. This set of
resonances includes all strange qqbar states with allowed strong decays
expected in the quark model up to ca. 2.2 GeV. We use standard nonrelativistic
quark model SHO wavefunctions to evaluate these amplitudes, and quote numerical
results for all amplitudes present in each decay mode. We also discuss the
status of the associated experimental candidates, and note which states and
decay modes would be especially interesting for future experimental study at
hadronic, e+e- and photoproduction facilities. These results should also be
useful in distinguishing conventional quark model mesons from exotica such as
glueballs and hybrids through their strong decays.Comment: 69 pages, 5 figures, 39 table
Local mean-field study of capillary condensation in silica aerogels
We apply local mean-field (i.e. density functional) theory to a lattice model
of a fluid in contact with a dilute, disordered gel network. The gel structure
is described by a diffusion-limited cluster aggregation model. We focus on the
influence of porosity on both the hysteretic and the equilibrium behavior of
the fluid as one varies the chemical potential at low temperature. We show that
the shape of the hysteresis loop changes from smooth to rectangular as the
porosity increases and that this change is associated to disorder-induced
out-of-equilibrium phase transitions that differ on adsorption and on
desorption. Our results provide insight in the behavior of He in silica
aerogels.Comment: 19 figure
Spin Correlations in Pair Creation by Two-Photons and Entanglement in QED
Spin correlations of pair productions of two colliding photons
are investigated and explicit expressions for their corresponding probabilities
are derived and found to be \textit{energy} (speed) dependent, for initially
\textit{linearly} and \textit{circularly polarized} photons, different from
those obtained by simply combining the spins of the relevant particles, for
initially \textit{polarized} photons. These expressions also depend on the
angles of spin of (and/or of ), for initially {\it linearly
polarized} photons, but not for {\it circularly polarized} photons, as a
function of the energy. It is remarkable that these explicit results obtained
from quantum field theory show a clear violation of Bell's inequality of Local
Hidden Variables theories at all {\it energies} beyond that of the threshold
one for particle production, in support of quantum field theory in the
relativistic regime. We hope that our explicit expression will lead to
experiments, of the type described in the bulk of this paper, which can monitor
energy (and speed) in polarization correlation experiments.Comment: 12 pages, 4 figure
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