Dominant Spin-Flip Effects for the Hadronic Produced J/ψJ/\psi Polarization at TEVATRON

Dominant spin-flip effects for the direct and prompt $J/\psi$ polarizations at TEVATRON run II with collision energy 1.96 TeV and rapidity cut $|y^{J/\psi}|<0.6$, have been systematically studied, especially, the spin-flip effect for the transition of $(c\bar{c})_8[^3S_1]$ into $J/\psi$ has been carefully discussed. It is found that the spin-flip effect shall always dilute the $J/\psi$ polarization, and with a suitable choice of the parameters $a_{0,1}$ and $c_{0,1,2}$, the $J/\psi$ polarization puzzle can be solved to a certain degree. At large transverse momentum $p_t$, $\alpha$ for the prompt $J/\psi$ is reduced by $\sim50$ for $f_0 = v^2$ and by $\sim80$ for $f_0=1$. We also study the indirect $J/\psi$ polarization from the $b$-decays, which however is slightly affected by the same spin-flip effect and then shall provide a better platform to determine the color-octet matrix elements.Comment: 19 pages, 5 figures. References added. Revised version to be published in Phys.Rev.

The moderating role of demand-side usage of O2O platforms and offline competition intensity for the outcome of proprietary platforms

Online to offline (O2O) platforms have risen in the digital era and have produced great impacts on local service providers. How online and offline attributes of local service firms influence the outcome of establishing proprietary platforms is understudied. The paper takes 528 cinemas in Nanjing from June 2017 to September 2017 as a sample. Based on network effects and the red queen theory, this paper focuses on the moderating effect of competition intensity and the demand-side usage of O2O platforms on the relationship between the choice of proprietary platforms and cinemas’ performance. The findings show that competition intensity has a significantly positive moderating effect, while the demand-side usage of O2O platforms has a significantly negative moderating effect. Implications of the findings are discussed

B→KB\to K Transition Form Factor with Tensor Current within the kTk_T Factorization Approach

In the paper, we apply the $k_T$ factorization approach to deal with the $B\to K$ transition form factor with tensor current in the large recoil regions. Main uncertainties for the estimation are discussed and we obtain $F_T^{B\to K}(0)=0.25\pm0.01\pm0.02$, where the first error is caused by the uncertainties from the pionic wave functions and the second is from that of the B-meson wave functions. This result is consistent with the light-cone sum rule results obtained in the literature.Comment: 8 pages, 4 figures, references adde

Electroneutrality Breakdown and Specific Ion Effects in Nanoconfined Aqueous Electrolytes Observed by NMR

Ion distribution in aqueous electrolytes near the interface plays critical roles in electrochemical, biological and colloidal systems and is expected to be particularly significant inside nanoconfined regions. Electroneutrality of the total charge inside nanoconfined regions is commonly assumed a priori in solving ion distribution of aqueous electrolytes nanoconfined by uncharged hydrophobic surfaces with no direct experimental validation. Here, we use a quantitative nuclear magnetic resonance approach to investigate the properties of aqueous electrolytes nanoconfined in graphitic-like nanoporous carbon. Substantial electroneutrality breakdown in nanoconfined regions and very asymmetric responses of cations and anions to the charging of nanoconfining surfaces are observed. The electroneutrality breakdown is shown to depend strongly on the propensity of anions toward the water-carbon interface and such ion-specific response follows generally the anion ranking of the Hofmeister series. The experimental observations are further supported by numerical evaluation using the generalized Poisson-Boltzmann equationComment: 26 pages, 3 figure