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radiative decays to light quark jets and color octet mechanism
We study radiative decays of to light quark jets in
nonrelativistic QCD by taking both the color singlet and color octet
operators into consideration. The cut for quark jet energy and cut for the
angle between two quark jets are introduced. The sensitivity to the soft and
collinear singularities in the loop integrals are greatly reduced by these
cuts. With the jet energy cut of about 1 GeV, and the jet angle cut of about
, the branching ratio for is found to be
from color singlet contributions. The color octet
contributions could be much larger than that of color singlet, depending on the
estimate of the color octet matrix elements. This process may provide a new
test for the color octet mechanism in nonrelativistic QCD.Comment: journal version; a few references adde
J/psi Pair Production at the Tevatron
The double J/psi production in p\bar{p} collision is revisited. It is found
that the J/\psi pair production rate at leading order with p_T > 4 GeV in
conventional scheme is larger than the rate derived from color-octet mechanism
by a factor of five. As the double J/psi production is shown to be attainable
with data yet collected at the Tevatron detectors, experimental study on it
would be helpful to clarify the validity of the conventional color-singlet
description for heavy quarkonium production
Reexamining radiative decays of quarkonium into and
Recently CLEO has studied the radiative decay of into and
an upper limit for the decay has been determined. Confronting with this upper
limit,most of theoretical predictions for the decay fails. After briefly
reviewing these predictions we re-examine the decay by separating
nonperturbative effect related to the quarkonium and that related to or
, in which the later is parameterized by distribution amplitudes of
gluons in . With this factorization approach we obtain theoretical
predictions which are in agreement with experiment. Uncertainties in our
predictions are discussed. The possibly largest uncertainties are from
relativistic corrections for and the value of the charm quark mass. We
argue that the effect of these uncertainties can be reduced by using quarkonium
masses instead of using quark masses. An example of the reduction is shown with
an attempt to explain the violation of the famous 14% rule in radiative decays
of charmonia.Comment: 9 Pages, Latex fil
Serum N-Terminal propeptide of collagen type I is associated with the number of bone Metastases in breast and prostate cancer and correlates to other bone related markers
Background A number of biomarkers have been proven potentially useful for their ability to indicate bone metastases (BM) in cancer patients. The aim of this study was to investigate the relative utility of a newly developed N-terminal propeptide of collagen type I (PINP) human serum assay for the detection of BM in cancer patients. This assay has a corresponding rat PINP assay which in the future might help in translational science between rodent and human trials. Methods Participants were 161 prostate, lung and breast cancer patients stratified by number of BM(Soloway score). PINP was assessed and correlated to number of BM. Additionally, the PINP marker was correlated to bone resorption of young (ALPHA CTX-I)- and aged bone (BETA CTX-I); number of osteoclasts (Tartrate-resistant acid phosphatase 5b, TRACP5B) and osteoclast activity (CTX-I/TRACP5B). Results PINP was significantly elevated in breast- and prostate cancer patients +BM, compared to –BM ( P < 0.001), however not in lung cancer patients. A strong linear association was seen between PINP and the number of BMs. Significant elevation of PINP was observed at Soloway scores 1–4 (<0 BM) compared with score 0 (0 BM) ( P < 0.001). The correlation between bone resorption of young bone or aged bone and bone formation was highly significant in patients +BM and –BM ( P < 0.0001). Conclusions Data suggest that the present PINP potentially could determine skeletal involvement in patients with breast or prostate cancer. Correlations suggested that coupling between bone resorption and bone formation was maintained in breast- and prostate cancer patients
Quarkonium+ production in coherent hadron - hadron interactions at LHC energies
In this paper we study the ( and )
production in coherent hadron - hadron interactions at LHC energies.
Considering the ultrarelativistic protons as a source of photons, we estimate
the cross section using the
non-relativistic QCD (NRQCD) factorization formalism and considering different
sets of values for the matrix elements. Our results for the total cross sections and rapidity distributions at
and 14 TeV demonstrate that the experimental analysis of the
production at LHC is feasible.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figures, 1 table. Improved version with a new figure.
Version to be published in European Physical Journal
Top Quark Decays into Heavy Quark Mesons
For top quark decays into heavy quark mesons and , a
complete calculation to the leading order both in QCD coupling constant
and in , the typical velocity of the heavy quarks inside the
mesons, is performed. Relatons between the top quark mass and the decay
branching ratios are studied. Comparion with the results which are obtained by
using the quark frangmentation functions is also discussed. The branching
ratios are consistent (within a factor of ) with that obtained using
fragmentation functions at GeV.Comment: 15 pages in LaTex form, 4 figures include
Fragmentation Function and Hadronic Production of the Heavy Supersymmetric Hadrons
The light top-squark \sto may be the lightest squark and its lifetime may
be `long enough' in a kind of SUSY models which have not been ruled out yet
experimentally, so colorless `supersymmetric hadrons (superhadrons)' (\sto
\bar{q}) ( is a quark except -quark) may be formed as long as the light
top-squark \sto can be produced. Fragmentation function of \sto to heavy
`supersymmetric hadrons (superhadrons)' (\sto \bar{Q}) ( or
) and the hadronic production of the superhadrons are investigated
quantitatively. The fragmentation function is calculated precisely. Due to the
difference in spin of the SUSY component, the asymptotic behavior of the
fragmentation function is different from those of the existent ones. The
fragmentation function is also applied to compute the production of heavy
superhadrons at hadronic colliders Tevatron and LHC under the so-called
fragmentation approach. The resultant cross-section for the heavy superhadrons
is too small to observe at Tevatron, but great enough at LHC, even when all the
relevant parameters in the SUSY models are taken within the favored region for
the heavy superhadrons. The production of `light superhadrons' (\sto \bar{q})
() is also roughly estimated. It is pointed out that the production
cross-sections of the light superhadrons (\sto \bar{q}) may be much greater
than those of the heavy superhadrons, so that even at Tevatron the light
superhadrons may be produced in great quantities.Comment: 20 pages, 9 figure
Inelastic production in polarized photon-hadron collisions
Presented here is a calculation of inelastic production in polarized
photon-hadron collisions under the framework of NRQCD factorization formalism.
We consider the photoproduction of \jpsi in the energy range relevant to
HERA. The Weizs\"acker-Williams approximation is adopted in the evaluation of
the cross sections for collisions. We found that this process can give
another independent test for the color-octet mechanism, and the different
features for the two color-octet processes may provide further informations on
the mechanism for inelastic \jpsi photoproduction. And the discrepancy on the
production asymmetry between various sets of polarized gluon distribution
functions is also found to be distinctive.Comment: 14pages, 6 PS figure
Determination of color-octet matrix elements from e^+e- process at low energies
We present an analysis of the preliminary experimental data of direct j/psi
production in e^e- process at low energies. We find that the color-octet
contributions are crucially important to the cross section at this energy
region, and their inclusion produces a good description of the data. By fitting
to the data, we extract the individual values of two color-octet matrix
elements: \approx 1.1\times 10^{-2} GeV^3, <{\cal
O}_8^{\psi}(^3P_0)> m_c^2\approx 7.4\times 10^{-3}GeV^3. We discuss the allowed
range of the two matrix elements constrained by the theoretical uncertainties.
We find that is poorly determined because it is
sensitive to the variation of the choice of m_c, \alpha_s and <{\cal
O}_1^{\psi}(^3S_1)>. However m_c^2 is quite stable
(about (6-9)\times 10^{-3}GeV^3) when the parameters vary in reasonable ranges.
The uncertainties due to large experimental errors are also discussed.Comment: 13 page, RevTex, 2 figures in postscript. To appear in Phys. Rev.
Narrow width of a glueball decay into two mesons
The widths of a glueball decay to two pions or kaons are analyzed in the pQCD
framework. Our results show that the glueball ground state has small branching
ratio for two-meson decay mode, which is around . The predicted values
are consistent with the data of if particle is a
glueball. Applicability of pQCD to the glueball decay and comparison
with decay are also discussed.Comment: 12 pages, revtex, 2 ps figure
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