Electromagnetic form factors of the baryon octet in the perturbative chiral quark model

We apply the perturbative chiral quark model at one loop to analyze the electromagnetic form factors of the baryon octet. The analytic expressions for baryon form factors, which are given in terms of fundamental parameters of low-energy pion-nucleon physics (weak pion decay constant, axial nucleon coupling, strong pion-nucleon form factor), and the numerical results for baryon magnetic moments, charge and magnetic radii are presented. Our results are in good agreement with experimental data.Comment: 15 pages, 6 figures, to be published in Eur. Phys. J.

Relativistic Quark Model Based Description of Low Energy NN Scattering

A description of the NN scattering is constructed starting from the $\pi, \eta, \eta'$ pseudoscalar-, the $\rho, \phi, \omega$ vector-, and the $\varepsilon(600), a_0, f_0(1400)$ scalar - meson-nucleon coupling constants, which we obtain within a relativistic quark model. Working within the Blankenbecler-Sugar-Logunov-Tavkhelidze quasipotential dynamics we thus describe the NN phase shifts in a relativistically invariant way. In this procedure we use the phenomenological form factor cutoff masses and the effective $\varepsilon$ and $\omega$ meson-nucleon coupling constants, only. The comparison of our NN phase shifts to the both empirical data and the Bonn OBEP fit shows good agreement -- the ratio of the $\chi^2$ for the present results to the $\chi^2$ for Bonn OBEP description is 1.2.Comment: 20 LaTeX pages, 2 postscript figures are available on request. Preprint IPSAS-RA-940

Neutrino mediated muon--electron conversion in nuclei revisited

The non-photonic neutrino exchange mechanism of the lepton flavor violating muon-electron conversion in nuclei is revisited. First we determine the nucleon coupling constants for the neutrino exchange mechanism in a relativistic quark model taking into account quark confinement and chiral symmetry requirements. This includes a new, previously overlooked tree-level contribution from neutrino exchange between two quarks in the same nucleon. Then for the case of an additional sterile neutrino we reconsider the coherent mode of this process. The presence of a mixed sterile-active neutrino state heavier than the quark confinement scale Lambda_c (~1 GeV) may significantly improve the prospects for observation of this process in future experiments as compared to the conventional scenario with only light neutrinos. Turning the arguments around we derive new experimental constraints on |U_(mu h)| and |U_(e h)| mixing matrix elements from the non-observation of muon--electron conversion.Comment: 13 pages, RevTex, 1 Postscript figur

piN scattering and electromagnetic corrections in the perturbative chiral quark model

We apply the perturbative chiral quark model to give predictions for the electromagnetic O(p^2) low-energy couplings of the ChPT effective Lagrangian that define the electromagnetic mass shifts of nucleons and first-order (e^2) radiative corrections to the piN scattering amplitude. We estimate the leading isospin-breaking correction to the strong energy shift of the pi(-)p atom in the 1s state, which is relevant for the experiment "Pionic Hydrogen" at PSI.Comment: 12 pages, 2 figure

Possible hadronic molecule structure of the Y(3940) and Y(4140)

In the present article we report on evidence for hadronic molecule structures in the charmonium sector. In particular we discuss the Y(3940) and the recently observed Y(4140) as heavy hadron molecule states with quantum numbers $J^{PC} = 0^{++}$ or $2^{++}$. The Y(3940) state is considered to be a superposition of $D^{\ast +}D^{\ast -}$ and $D^{\ast 0} \overline{D^{\ast 0}}$, while the Y(4140) is a bound state of $D_s^{\ast +}$ and $D_s^{\ast -}$ mesons. We give predictions for both the strong Y(3940) to J/psi omega, Y(4140) to J/psi phi and radiative Y(3940)/Y(4140) to gamma gamma decay widths in a phenomenological Lagrangian approach. The results for the strong hidden charm decay modes clearly support the molecular interpretation of the Y(3940) and Y(4140), while our estimates for the radiative decays provide a sensitive test for the underlying meson structure of the two Y mesons discussed here. The alternative assignment of $J^{PC} = 2^{++}$ is also tested, giving similar results for the strong decay widths.Comment: 5 pages, 2 figures. To appear in the Proceedings of XIII International Conference on Hadron Spectroscopy, November 29 - December 4, 2009, Florida State Universit