154 research outputs found
Reweighting of the form factors in exclusive B --> X ell nu decays
A form factor reweighting technique has been elaborated to permit relatively
easy comparisons between different form factor models applied to exclusive B
--> X l nu decays. The software tool developped for this purpose is described.
It can be used with any event generator, three of which were used in this work:
ISGW2, PHSP and FLATQ2, a new powerful generator. The software tool allows an
easy and reliable implementation of any form factor model. The tool has been
fully validated with the ISGW2 form factor hypothesis. The results of our
present studies indicate that the combined use of the FLATQ2 generator and the
form factor reweighting tool should play a very important role in future
exclusive |Vub| measurements, with largely reduced errors.Comment: accepted for publication by EPJ
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On-Board Sensor-Based NO x Emissions from Heavy-Duty Diesel Vehicles
Real-world
nitrogen oxides (NOx) emissions
were estimated using on-board sensor readings from 72 heavy-duty diesel
vehicles (HDDVs) equipped with a Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR)
system in California. The results showed that there were large differences
between in-use and certification NOx emissions,
with 12 HDDVs emitting more than three times the standard during hot-running
and idling operations in the real world. The overall NOx conversion efficiencies of the SCR system on many
vehicles were well below the 90% threshold that is expected for an
efficient SCR system, even when the SCR system was above the optimum
operating temperature threshold of 250 °C. This could potentially
be associated with SCR catalyst deterioration on some engines. The
Not-to-Exceed (NTE) requirements currently used by the heavy-duty
in-use compliance program were evaluated using on-board NOx sensor data. Valid NTE events covered only 4.2–16.4%
of the engine operation and 6.6–34.6% of the estimated NOx emissions. This work shows that low cost
on-board NOx sensors are a convenient
tool to monitor in-use NOx emissions in
real-time, evaluate the SCR system performance, and identify vehicle
operating modes with high NOx emissions.
This information can inform certification and compliance programs
to ensure low in-use NOx emissions
Right-handed currents in rare exclusive B -> (K, K*) nu bar{nu} decays
The effects of possible right-handed weak hadronic currents in rare exclusive
semileptonic decays B -> (K, K*) nu bar{nu} are investigated using a
lattice-constrained dispersion quark model for the calculation of the relevant
mesonic form factors. The results obtained for the branching ratios and the
missing energy spectra are presented and the sensitivity of various observables
to long-distance physics is investigated. It is shown that the asymmetry of
transversely polarized K*(T) mesons as well as the K / K*(T) production ratio
are only slightly sensitive to long-distance contributions and mostly governed
by the relative strength and phase of right-handed currents. In particular,
within the Standard Model the production of right-handed K*(T) mesons turns out
to be largely suppressed with respect to left-handed ones, thanks to the
smallness of the final to initial meson mass ratio. Therefore, the measurement
of produced right-handed K*(T) mesons in rare B -> K* nu bar{nu} decays offers
a very interesting tool to investigate right-handed weak hadronic currents.Comment: latex, 10 pp., 4 figures with epsfig.st
Polarization and `Model Independent' Extraction of from and
We briefly discuss the predictions of the heavy quark effective theory for
the semileptonic decays of a heavy pseudoscalar to a light one, or to a light
vector meson. We point out that measurement of combinations of differential
helicity decay rates at Cleo-c and the factories can provide a model
independent means of extracting the ratio
. We briefly discuss the corrections to this prediction.Comment: 8 pages, LaTeX, 1 figur
Semileptonic decays in relativistic quark model
Quark model results for the decays are analysed, making use
of the dispersion formulation of the model: The form factors at are
expressed as relativistic invariant double spectral representation over
invariant masses of the initial and final mesons through their light--cone wave
functions. The dependence of the results on the quark model parameters is
studied. For various versions of the quark model the ranges , , and
are found. The effects of the constituent quark
transition form factor are briefly discussed.Comment: latex, 8 pages, 2 figure
On Some rare weak decays of vector mesons
Some semileptonic weak decays of vector mesons are considered in the
framework of the most popular quark models. The predicted branching ratios are
unfortunately too small to make a study of these decays realistic at meson
factories under construction.Comment: 14 pages, LaTeX. Some typos correcte
The Lambda_b lifetime in the light front quark model
The enhancement of the Lambda_b decay width relative to B decay one due to
the difference of Fermi motion effects in Lambda_b and B is calculated in the
light--front quark model with the simplifying assumption that Lambda_b consists
of the heavy quark and light scalar diquark. In order to explain the large
deviation from unity in the experimental result for tau(Lambda_b)/tau(B), it is
necessary that diquark be light and the ratio of the squares of the Lambda_b
and B wave functions at the origin be \le 1.Comment: final journal version to appear in JETP Letter
BB Intermeson Potentials in the Quark Model
In this paper we derive quark model results for scattering amplitudes and
equivalent low energy potentials for heavy meson pairs, in which each meson
contains a heavy quark. This "BB" system is an attractive theoretical
laboratory for the study of the nuclear force between color singlets; the
hadronic system is relatively simple, and there are lattice gauge theory (LGT)
results for V_BB(r) which may be compared to phenomenological models. We find
that the quark model potential (after lattice smearing) has qualitative
similarities to the LGT potential in the two B*B* channels in which direct
comparison is possible, although there is evidence of a difference in length
scales. The quark model prediction of equal magnitude but opposite sign for I=0
and I=1 potentials also appears similar to LGT results at intermediate r. There
may however be a discrepancy between the LGT and quark model I=1 BB potentials.
A numerical study of the two-meson Schrodinger equations in the (bqbar)(bqbar)
and (cqbar)(cqbar) sectors with the quark model potentials finds a single
"molecule", in the I=0 BB* sector. Binding in other channels might occur if the
quark model forces are augmented by pion exchange.Comment: 30 pages, 5 figures, revtex and epsfig. Submitted to Phys. Rev.
Flux Tube Zero-Point Motion, Hadronic Charge Radii, and Hybrid Meson Production Cross Sections
Flux tube zero-point motion produces quark displacements transverse to the
flux tube which make significant contributions to hadronic charge radii. In
heavy quark systems, these contributions can be related by Bjorken's sum rule
to the rates for semileptonic decay to hybrid mesons. This connection can be
generalized to other leptoproduction processes, where transverse contributions
to elastic form factor slopes are related to the cross sections for the
production of the associated hybrid states. I identify the flux tube overlap
integral responsible for these effects as the strong QCD analogue of the
Sudakov form factor of perturbative QCD.Comment: 16 pages, revised to clarify some points and to improve and correct
the notation for the flux tube wave function
Hadronic Charmed Meson Decays Involving Tensor Mesons
Charmed meson decays into a pseudoscalar meson P and a tensor meson T are
studied. The charm to tensor meson transition form factors are evaluated in the
Isgur-Scora-Grinstein-Wise (ISGW) quark model. It is shown that the
Cabibbo-allowed decay is dominated by the
W-annihilation contribution and has the largest branching ratio in
decays. We argue that the Cabibbo-suppressed mode
should be suppressed by one order of magnitude relative to . When the finite width effect of the tensor resonances is taken
into account, the decay rate of is generally enhanced by a factor of
. Except for , the predicted branching ratios
of decays are in general too small by one to two orders of magnitude
compared to experiment. However, it is very unlikely that the
transition form factors can be enhanced by a factor of within the
ISGW quark model to account for the discrepancy between theory and experiment.
As many of the current data are still preliminary and lack sufficient statistic
significance, more accurate measurements are needed to pin down the issue.Comment: 11 page
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