512 research outputs found
Microscopic derivation of the pion coupling to heavy-light mesons
The Goldberger--Treiman relation for heavy--light systems is derived in the
context of a quark model. As a paradigmatic example, the case of is studied in detail. The fundamental role played by the pion
two-component wave function, in the context of the Salpeter equation, is
emphasized.Comment: 6 pages, 2 figures, version to appear in Phys. Rev.
On two- and three-body descriptions of hybrid mesons
Hybrid mesons are exotic mesons in which the color field is not in its ground
state. Their understanding deserves interest from a theoretical point of view,
because it is intimately related to nonperturbative aspects of QCD. In this
work, we analyze and compare two different descriptions of hybrid mesons,
namely a two-body system with an excited string, or a three-body
system. In particular, we show that the constituent gluon approach
is equivalent to an effective excited string in the heavy hybrid sector.
Instead of a numerical resolution, we use the auxiliary field technique. It
allows to find simplified analytical mass spectra and wave functions, and still
leads to reliable qualitative predictions. We also investigate the light hybrid
sector, and found a mass for the lightest hybrid meson which is in satisfactory
agreement with lattice QCD and other effective models.Comment: 2 figure
Parity doublers in chiral potential quark models
The effect of spontaneous breaking of chiral symmetry over the spectrum of
highly excited hadrons is addressed in the framework of a microscopic chiral
potential quark model (Generalised Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model) with a vectorial
instantaneous quark kernel of a generic form. A heavy-light quark-antiquark
bound system is considered, as an example, and the Lorentz nature of the
effective light-quark potential is identified to be a pure Lorentz-scalar, for
low-lying states in the spectrum, and to become a pure spatial Lorentz vector,
for highly excited states. Consequently, the splitting between the partners in
chiral doublets is demonstrated to decrease fast in the upper part of the
spectrum so that neighboring states of an opposite parity become almost
degenerate. A detailed microscopic picture of such a "chiral symmetry
restoration" in the spectrum of highly excited hadrons is drawn and the
corresponding scale of restoration is estimated.Comment: LaTeX2e, 4 pages, uses aipproc class, Talk given by A.Nefediev at the
conference "Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum VII", 2-7 September
2006, Acores, Portugal, to appear in Proceeding
Confinement and parity doubling in heavy-light mesons
In this paper, we study the chiral symmetry restoration in the hadronic
spectrum in the framework of generalised Nambu-Jona-Lasinio quark models with
instantaneous confining quark kernels. We investigate a heavy-light quarkonium
and derive its bound-state equation in the form of a Schroedingerlike equation
and, after the exact inverse Foldy-Wouthuysen transformation, in the form of a
Diraclike quation. We discuss the Lorentz nature of confinement for such a
system and demonstrate explicitly the effective chiral symmetry restoration for
highly excited states in the mesonic spectrum. We give an estimate for the
scale of this restoration.Comment: RevTeX4, 21 pages, 6 Postscript figures, uses epsfig.sty, to appear
in Phys.Rev.
Chiral symmetry restoration in excited hadrons, quantum fluctuations, and quasiclassics
In this paper, we discuss the transition to the semiclassical regime in
excited hadrons, and consequently, the restoration of chiral symmetry for these
states. We use a generalised Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model with the interaction
between quarks in the form of the instantaneous Lorentz-vector confining
potential. This model is known to provide spontaneous breaking of chiral
symmetry in the vacuum via the standard selfenergy loops for valence quarks. It
has been shown recently that the effective single-quark potential is of the
Lorentz-scalar nature, for the low-lying hadrons, while, for the high-lying
states, it becomes a pure Lorentz vector and hence the model exhibits the
restoration of chiral symmetry. We demonstrate explicitly the quantum nature of
chiral symmetry breaking, the absence of chiral symmetry breaking in the
classical limit as well as the transition to the semiclassical regime for
excited states, where the effect of chiral symmetry breaking becomes only a
small correction to the classical contributions.Comment: RevTeX4, 20 pages, 4 Postscript figures, uses epsfig.sty, typos
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Reconciling the X(3872) with the near-threshold enhancement in the D^0\bar{D}^{*0} final state
We investigate the enhancement in the D^0\bar{D}^0\pi^0 final state with the
mass M=3875.2\pm 0.7^{+0.3}_{-1.6}\pm 0.8 MeV found recently by the Belle
Collaboration in the B\to K D^0\bar{D}^0\pi^0 decay and test the possibility
that this is yet another manifestation of the well-established resonance
X(3872). We perform a combined Flatte analysis of the data for the
D^0\bar{D}^0\pi^0 mode, and for the \pi^+\pi^- J/\psi mode of the X(3872). Only
if the X(3872) is a virtual state in the D^0\bar{D}^{*0} channel, the data on
the new enhancement comply with those on the X(3872). In our fits, the mass
distribution in the D^0\bar{D}^{*0} mode exhibits a peak at 2-3 MeV above the
D^0\bar{D}^{*0} threshold, with a distinctive non-Breit-Wigner shape.Comment: RevTeX4, 17 pages, some references updated and corrected, version
published in Phys. Rev.
Insights on scalar mesons from their radiative decays
We estimate the rates for radiative transitions of the lightest scalar mesons
f_0(980) and a_0(980) to the vector mesons rho and omega. We argue that
measurements of the radiative decays of those scalar mesons can provide
important new information on their structure.Comment: 20 pages, 5 figures; appendix added, to be published in Phys. Rev.
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