147 research outputs found
Rare radiative B decays in perturbative QCD
We report on recent progress on perturbative QCD calculations of certain
exclusive rare weak meson decays involving hard photons. In the limit of a
photon energy much larger than , the amplitudes for
such processes can be analyzed in a twist expansion in powers of
. The leading twist amplitude is given by the convolution of
a hard scattering amplitude with the meson light-cone wavefunction. This
approach is applied to a calculation of the leptonic radiative formfactors and to an estimate of the weak annihilation
contribution to the penguin decays . As an application
we discuss a few methods for constraining the unitarity triangle with exclusive
radiative B decays.Comment: 11 pages, 3 included figures. Invited talk given at the 5th
International Workshop on Particle Physics Phenomenology, Chi-Pen, Taitung,
Taiwan, 8-11 Nov 200
Testing for three-body quark forces in L=1 excited baryons
We discuss the matching of the quark model to the effective mass operator of
the 1/Nc expansion using the permutation group S_N. As an illustration of the
general procedure we perform the matching of the Isgur-Karl model for the
spectrum of the negative parity L=1 excited baryons. Assuming the most general
two-body quark Hamiltonian, we derive two correlations among the masses and
mixing angles of these states which should hold in any quark model. These
correlations constrain the mixing angles and can be used to test for the
presence of three-body quark forces.Comment: 6 pages, 2 figures. Invited talk given at the XI Hadron Physics
Conference, March 21-26, 2010, Sao Paulo, Brazi
1/Nc expansion and the spin-flavor structure of the quark interaction in the constituent quark model
We study the hierarchy of the coefficients in the 1/Nc expansion for the
negative parity L=1 excited baryons from the perspective of the constituent
quark model. This is related to the problem of determining the spin-flavor
structure of the quark interaction. The most general two-body scalar
interaction between quarks contains the spin-flavor structures and . We show that
in the limit of a zero range interaction all these structures are matched onto
the same hadronic mass operator , which gives a possible explanation for
the dominance of this operator in the 1/Nc expansion for the L=1 states and
implies that in this limit it is impossible to distinguish between these
different spin-flavor structures. Modeling a finite range interaction through
the exchange of a vector and pseudoscalar meson, we propose a test for the
spin-flavor dependence of the quark forces. For the scalar part of the quark
interaction we find that both pion exchange and gluon exchange are compatible
with data.Comment: 20 pages, 4 figure
Matching the quark model to the 1/Nc expansion
We compute the coefficients of the effective mass operator of the 1/Nc
expansion for negative parity L=1 excited baryons using the Isgur-Karl model in
order to compare the general approach, where the coefficients are obtained by
fitting to data, with a specific constituent quark model calculation. We
discuss the physics behind the fitted coefficients for the scalar part of the
most general two-body quark-quark interaction. We find that both pion exchange
and gluon exchange lead to the dominance of the same operator at the level of
the effective mass operator, which is also observed from data.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures, contribution to the proceedings of the MENU 2010
conference, May 31- June 4, 2010, Williamsburg VA, US
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