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Heavy quark spin symmetric molecular states from and other coupled channels in the light of the recent LHCb pentaquarks
We consider the states, together with and other coupled channels, and take an interaction consistent with heavy
quark spin symmetry, with the dynamical input obtained from an extension of the
local hidden gauge approach. By fitting only one parameter to the recent three
pentaquark states reported by the LHCb collaboration, we can reproduce the
three of them in base to the mass and the width, providing for them the quantum
numbers and approximate molecular structure as ,
, and , and isospin
. We find another state around 4374 MeV, of
structure, for which indications appear in the experimental spectrum. Two other
near degenerate states of and nature are also found around 4520 MeV, which although less clear,
are not incompatible with the observed spectrum. In addition, a state at the same energy appears, which however does not couple
to in wave, and hence it is not expected to show up in the LHCb
experiment.Comment: 8 page
Light propagation in generally covariant electrodynamics and the Fresnel equation
Within the framework of generally covariant (pre-metric) electrodynamics, we
specify a local vacuum spacetime relation between the excitation and the field strength . We study the propagation of
electromagnetic waves in such a spacetime by Hadamard's method and arrive, with
the constitutive tensor density , at a Fresnel
equation which is algebraic of 4th order in the wave covector. We determine how
the different pieces of , in particular the axion and the skewon
pieces, affect the propagation of light.Comment: 6 pages, uses ws-ijmpa.cls. Invited talk given at Journees
Relativistes, University College Dublin, Sept. 2001. Will appear in
Int.J.Mod.Phys.
Photons, neutrinos and optical activity
We compute the one-loop helicity amplitudes for low-energy
scattering and its crossed channels in the standard
model with massless neutrinos. In the center of mass, with , the cross sections for these channels grow roughly
as . The scattered photons in the elastic channel are circularly
polarized and the net value of the polarization is non-zero. We also present a
discussion of the optical activity of a sea of neutrinos and estimate the
values of its index of refraction and rotary power.Comment: 9 pages, ReVTeX4, 6 figures include
Chiral dynamics and pionic 1s states of Pb and Sn isotopes
We calculate shifts and width of 1s and 2p states of pions bound to heavy
nuclei, using an optical potential with its s-wave interaction part based on
chiral symmetry. This potential is constructed systematically in two-loop
approximation of chiral perturbation theory. A proper treatment of the explicit
energy dependence of this potential in conjunction with gauge invariance turns
out to be very important. Results are reported for deeply bound pionic states
in Pb and Sn isotopes in comparison with the GSI dataComment: 4 pages, contribution to PANIC02, Osaka, Japan, September 30 -
October 4, 200
Functionally distinct and selectively phosphorylated GPCR subpopulations co-exist in a single cell.
G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) transduce pleiotropic intracellular signals in a broad range of physiological responses and disease states. Activated GPCRs can undergo agonist-induced phosphorylation by G protein receptor kinases (GRKs) and second messenger-dependent protein kinases such as protein kinase A (PKA). Here, we characterize spatially segregated subpopulations of β2-adrenergic receptor (β2AR) undergoing selective phosphorylation by GRKs or PKA in a single cell. GRKs primarily label monomeric β2ARs that undergo endocytosis, whereas PKA modifies dimeric β2ARs that remain at the cell surface. In hippocampal neurons, PKA-phosphorylated β2ARs are enriched in dendrites, whereas GRK-phosphorylated β2ARs accumulate in soma, being excluded from dendrites in a neuron maturation-dependent manner. Moreover, we show that PKA-phosphorylated β2ARs are necessary to augment the activity of L-type calcium channel. Collectively, these findings provide evidence that functionally distinct subpopulations of this prototypical GPCR exist in a single cell
Fermion and Anti-Fermion Effective Masses in High Temperature Gauge Theories in -Asymmetric Background
We calculate the splitting between fermion and anti-fermion effective masses
in high temperature gauge theories in the presence of a non-vanishing chemical
potential due to the -asymmetric fermionic background. In particular we
consider the case of left-handed leptons in the theory when
the temperature is above GeV and the gauge symmetry is restored.Comment: 13 pages, TIPAC-93001
The (1535) and (1650) Resonances in Meson-Baryon Unitarized Coupled Channel Chiral Perturbation Theory
The wave meson-baryon scattering is analyzed for the strangeness S=0
sector in a Bethe-Salpeter coupled channel formalism incorporating Chiral
Symmetry. Four channels have been considered: , , ,
. The needed two particle irreducible matrix amplitude is taken from
lowest order Chiral Perturbation Theory in a relativistic formalism and low
energy constants are fitted to the elastic phase-shifts and the and cross section data. The position of
the complex poles in the second Riemann sheet of the scattering amplitude
determine masses and widths of the (1535) and (1650)
resonances, in reasonable agreement with experiment. A good overall description
of data, from threshold up to 2 GeV, is achieved keeping in mind that
the two pion production channel has not been included.Comment: 35 pages, LaTeX + 7 ps-figure files. Some minor mistakes have been
corrected for and a new appendix discussing the matching to HBChPT has been
also adde
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