Unexpected features of e+e-->ppbar and e+e-->lambda-lambdabar cross sections near threshold

Unexpected features of the BaBar data on e+e- in baryon-antibaryon cross sections are discussed. These data have been collected, with unprecedented accuracy, by means of the initial state radiation technique, which is particularly suitable in giving good acceptance and energy resolution at threshold. A striking feature observed in the BaBar data is the non-vanishing cross section at threshold for all these processes. This is the expectation due to the Coulomb enhancement factor acting on a charged fermion pair. In the case of e+e- in proton-antiproton it is found that Coulomb final state interactions largely dominate the cross section and the form factor is |G^p(4M^2_p)|~1, which could be a general feature for baryons. In the case of neutral baryons an interpretation of the non-vanishing cross section at threshold is suggested, based on quark electromagnetic interaction and taking into account the asymmetry between attractive and repulsive Coulomb factors. Besides strange baryon cross sections are compared to U-spin invariance predictions.Comment: 12 pages, 11 figure

A practical guide to unravel time-like transition form factors

A method to determine masses, widths and coupling constants of vector mesons, like phi(1020), omega(782) and rho0(770) recurrences is defined. Starting from data on decay rates and cross sections for the processes: phi -> M_I gamma, phi -> M_I e+e- and e+e- -> M_I phi, where M_I is a pseudoscalar or scalar meson with isospin I=0,1, the time-like transition form factors, which describe the vertex phi-gamma-M_I, are parametrized using a vector meson-propagators description in the low energy region <3-4 GeV, the quark-counting rule prescription for the high energy behavior, and the analyticity imposed by means of the dispersion relations.Comment: 20 pages, 15 eps figure

Hunting for asymptotia at LHC

We discuss whether the behaviour of some hadronic quantities, such as the total cross-section, the ratio of the elastic to the total cross-section, are presently exhibiting the asymptotic behaviour expected at very large energies. We find phenomenological evidence that at LHC7 there is still space for further evolution.Comment: 5 pages, 2 figures, talk given by G. Pancheri at International Workshop on Diffraction in High-Energy Physics, DIFFRACTION 2012, Puerto del Carmen, Canary Islands, Spain. To appear in AIP Conf. Pro

Comments on ISR method in modern experiment and influence of final state radiation

We study the effect of final state radiation in the process $e^++e^- \to \bar p+ p$, in the kinematical conditions of BaBar and BESIII experiment. We show that this effect could be large, in particular in the low $x$ region ($x$ is the photon energy fraction) and should be taken into account.Comment: 8 pages, 5 figure

Baryon Form Factors at Threshold

An extensive study of the e + e − → p p ¯ BaBar cross section data is presented. Two unexpected outcomes have been found: the modulus of the proton form factor is normalized to one at threshold, i.e.: | G p ( 4 M p 2 ) | = 1 , as a pointlike fermion, and the resummation factor in the Sommerfeld formula is not needed. Other e+e− → baryon-antibaryon cross sections show a similar behavior near threshold

Asymptotia for total and elastic pp and ¯pp cross-sections

We discuss recent LHC data for total and elastic pp scattering collected at √s = 7TeV through the asymptotic properties of the scattering amplitude, such as saturation of the Froissart bound and the black-disk limit. A simple model with two exponentials and a phase is used to describe the elastic differential crosssection for both pp and ¯pp and test two asymptotic rules derived from the hypothesis of total absorption