3π强子物理和实验

在强子物理研究中,3π产生的理论和实验有非常重要的意义,是目前世界上很多大型实验设备的重要研究对象。3π强子物理包含丰富的物理内容,可以作为探索低能区强相互作用的有力工具。同时,3π产生过程是寻找奇特轻介子态的主要途径之一。另外,通过研究3π产生反应道还可以寻找“失踪”共振态和重子激发态之间的级联衰变。介绍了目前国际各大高能物理实验室的3π产生过程的实验、理论研究以及分波分析技术现状,重点介绍了美国杰弗逊国家实验室（Jefferson Lab,简称JLab）的CLAS（CEBAF Large Acceptance Spectrometer）实验上的3π反应过程。最后,指出了3π强子物理研究的意义和未来的研究方向。Three pion productions off nucleon are of significance in the research of hadron physics. Meanwhile it is the subject of many big experimental apparatus in the world. Due to the variety of three pion productions, it can be applied as an effective tool to study QCD in low energy region. Three pion productions is one of the main reactions in searching light exotic meson state. Moreover, it is possible to find out the "missing" baryon resonance and the cascaded decay process between baryon excited states. We introduce present experiments and theories of three pion productions as well as the partial wave analysis technique. The emphasis is on the CLAS (CEBAF Large Acceptance Spectrometer) experiment at JLab (Jefferson Lab). In the end, we point out the significance of studying the three-pion hadron physics at JLab.     

Atoms in flight and the remarkable connections between atomic and hadronic physics

Atomic physics and hadron physics are both based on Yang Mills gauge theory; in fact, quantum electrodynamics can be regarded as the zero-color limit of quantum chromodynamics. I review a number of areas where the techniques of atomic physics provide important insight into the theory of hadrons in QCD. For example, the Dirac-Coulomb equation, which predicts the spectroscopy and structure of hydrogenic atoms, has an analog in hadron physics in the form of light-front relativistic equations of motion which give a remarkable first approximation to the spectroscopy, dynamics, and structure of light hadrons. The renormalization scale for the running coupling, which is unambiguously set in QED, leads to a method for setting the renormalization scale in QCD. The production of atoms in flight provides a method for computing the formation of hadrons at the amplitude level. Conversely, many techniques which have been developed for hadron physics, such as scaling laws, evolution equations, and light-front quantization have equal utility for atomic physics, especially in the relativistic domain. I also present a new perspective for understanding the contributions to the cosmological constant from QED and QCD.     

Exclusive processes at Jefferson Lab

Mapping the transition from strongly interacting, non-perturbative quantum chromodynamics, where nucleon-meson degrees of freedom are effective to perturbative QCD of quark and gluon degrees of freedom, is one of the most fundamental, challenging tasks in nuclear and particle physics. Exclusive processes such as proton-proton elastic scattering, meson photoproduction, and deuteron photodisintegration have been pursued extensively at many laboratories over the years in the search for such a transition, particularly at Jefferson Lab in recent years, taking the advantage of the high luminosity capability of the CEBAF facility. In this talk, I review recent results from Jefferson Lab on deuteron photodisintegration and photopion production processes and the future 12 GeV program.     

Why is GeV physics relevant in the age of the LHC?

The contribution that Jefferson Lab has made, with its 6 GeV electron beam, and will make, with its 12 GeV upgrade, to our understanding of the way the fundamental interactions work, particularly strong coupling QCD, is outlined. This physics at the GeV scale is essential even in TeV collisions.     

QCD求和规则与强子物理

量子色动力学（QCD）求和规则是强子物理研究中的一种重要的非微扰方法, 已经成为强子物理与核物理研究中有力的工具。 简单介绍了QCD求和规则的基本概念、 方法与应用, 特别讨论了QCD求和规则近年来的发展和与之相关的一些前沿问题。 QCD sum rule is an important nonperturbative method in hadron physics, it has been a powerful technique in study of hadron physics and nuclear physics.We give a brief introduction to the basic idea, the method and its application of QCD sum rule, emphasize the development of this method and some topics in recent years.     

Hadron physics at low energies

Understanding how quantum chromodynamics, the theory of strong interaction, works in the low-energy region, the so-called confinement region is one of the major challenges facing physicists. Low energy hadron physics, particularly the structure of hadron is one of the most active areas of research in nuclear physics addressing this challenge. In this talk, I will review advances made in this area on a few selected topics in the last decade or so and also provide outlook for the future.     

A proposed U.S./China theoretical/experimental collaborative effort on baryon resonance extraction

In this paper we discuss the reasons for our work towards establishing a new collaboration between Jefferson Lab (JLab) and the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) in Beijing. We seek to combine experimentalists and theorists into a dedicated group focused on better understanding the current and future data from JLab and from the Beijing Electron Positron Collider (BEPC). Recent JLab results on the extraction of single- and double-polarization observables in both the 1π- and 2π-channel show their high sensitivity to small production amplitudes and therefore their importance for the extraction of resonance parameters. The Beijing Electron Spectrometer (BES) at the BEPC has collected high statistics data on J/ψ production. Its decay into baryon-antibaryon channels offers a unique and complementary way of probing nucleon resonances. The CEBAF Large Acceptance Spectrometer, CLAS, has access to N~* form factors at high Q~2, which is advantageous for the study of dynamical properties of nucleon resonances, while the low-background BES results will be able to provide guidance for the search for less-dominant excited states at JLab. Moreover, with the recently approved experimental proposal Nucleon Resonance Studies with CLAS12 and the high-quality data streaming from BES-Ⅲ and CLAS, the time has come for forging a new Trans-Pacific collaboration of theorists and experimentalists on NSTAR physics.     

电子-质子对撞机上的Primakoff物理

Primakoff效应具有独特的动力学筛选条件,是研究原子核和粒子物理的强大的实验工具。未来电子-离子对撞机(EIC)机器具有质心能量高、亮度高、动力学范围广、本底低、探测器探测效率高以及碰撞离子种类丰富等优点。这将为我们开启一扇通往Primakoff物理研究的新时代的大门。在EIC机器上开展Primakoff物理实验可以严格检验量子色动力学的基本对称性,研究强子的电弱相互作用性质,并探索超出标准模型的新物理。Primakoff效应实验是EIC物理研究的又一亮点。     

核子(强子)结构和性质的QCD研究

核子 (强子 )是夸克、胶子的束缚态 ,由量子色动力学 QCD描述。由于 QCD的基本特性(高能标度下的渐近自由、低能标度下色禁闭及动力学手征对称性破缺 ) ,对核子 (强子 )结构和性质的 QCD图象是标度相关的 .在高能标度下描述强子的是与探测强子结构的硬过程相联系的QCD部分子模型 .强子的夸克、胶子结构信息通过 QCD部分子求和规则得到 .QCD微扰论是适用的理论 .在低能标度时 ,必须发展 QCD非微扰途径来描述核子 (强子 )物理 .这里简要地讨论各种非微扰途径 (格点 QCD、Dyson- Schwinger方程、有效场论、QCD求和规则 )的某些结果和进展 ,并指出 QCD真空结构在描述低能标度下强子物理中担任重要角色 . The nucleon (hadron) is the bound state of guarks and gluons, which is described by the quantum chromodynamics (QCD). Due to the basic properties of QCD (the asymptotic freedom at the high energy scale, the color confinement and the dynamical chiral symmetry breaking at the low energy scale), the QCD picture for the nucleon’s (hadron’s) structure and property is scale dependent. At high energy scale, the QCD parton model, which is relative to the hard process for testing the...     

Mapping gluonic excitations and confinement

One of the outstanding and fundamental questions in physics is the quantitative understanding of the confinement of quarks and gluons in quantum chromodynamics (QCD). Confinement is a unique feature of QCD. Exotic hybrid mesons manifest gluonic degrees of freedom and their spectroscopy will provide the crucial data needed to test assumptions in lattice QCD and phenomenology leading to confinement. Photoproduction is expected to be particularly effective in producing exotic hybrids but data using photon probes are sparse. At Jefferson Lab, plans are underway to use the coherent bremsstrahlung technique to produce a linearly polarized photon beam. A solenoid-based hermetic detector will be used to collect data on meson production and decays with statistics that will exceed the current photoproduction data in hand by several orders of magnitude after the first year of running. In order to reach the ideal photon energy of 9 GeV/c for this mapping of the exotic spectra, the energy of the Jefferson Lab electron accelerator, CEBAF, will be doubled from its current maximum of 6 GeV to 12 GeV. The physics and project are described.Received: 30 September 2002, Published online: 22 October 2003PACS: 12.39.Mk Glueball and nonstandard multi-quark/gluon states - 13.60.Le Meson productionA.R. Dzierba: Present address: Department of Physics, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405 USA     

Relativistic constituent quark model and experiments at JLab

Within the relativistic-quantum-mechanics version developed by the present authors in their previous studies, the pion electromagnetic form factor is calculated in the region of high momentum transfers reached and planned to be reached in experiments at the Thomas Jefferson Laboratory (JLab). An asymptotic expansion was obtained for the pion form factor for Q ² → ∞. This expansion describes well existing experimental values and the results of a QCD simulation of future experiments at JLab. It is shown that the region of experiments at JLab is an asymptotic region for the relativistic constituent quark model and that the behavior of the pion form factor, F _π (Q ²)Q ² = const, can be obtained within this model.     

核子与原子核的奇异性产生和重味产生

本文简要评述中高能强子散射和电磁散射实验中原子核的奇异性产生与重味产生,并重点介绍该领域近年新实验结果和对奇异性产生反应机制的新认识。实际上,自上世纪70年代起已通过强子反应和光核反应开始了奇异性产生的研究工作。由于近年来SATURNE和COSY（强子探针）以及ELSA和JLab（电磁探针）的发展,提供了大量高精度的奇异性产生方面的实验数据,使人们能够深入研究奇异性产生的碰撞机制,进而研究重子谱与超核物理。本文评述奇异性产生在实验和理论两方面的新进展,包括核靶与核子靶两种情况,以及它们与核结构和强子结构研究的联系。本文最后对重味产生反应也进行适当介绍。     

The Third Generation (e,e′K~+) A Hypernuclear Spectroscopy at Jlab

We are now preparing for the third generation (e,e′K~+) A hypernuclear spectroscopic experiment at Hall C,Jefferson Lab (USA).The goal of the experiment is the precise spectroscopy of hypernuclei in wide mass region.We have constructed a new high resolution electron spectrometer "HES" dedicated to (e,e′K~+) hypernuclear study in Japan and it was shipped to JLab in February,2008.We will discuss about the physics of the (e,e′K~+) hypernuclear study at JLab and report the current preparation status of the third generatrion experiment.     

Heavy flavour hadron spectroscopy: An overview

A comprehensive overview and some of the theoretical attempts towards understanding heavy flavour hadron spectroscopy are presented. Apart from the conventional quark structure (quark, antiquarks structure for the mesons and three-quarks structure of baryons) of hadrons, multiquark hadrons the hadron molecular states etc., also will be reviewed. Various issues and challenges in understanding the physics and dynamics of the quarks at the hadronic dimensions are highlighted. Looking into the present and future experimental prospects at different heavy flavour laboratories like BES-III, CLEO-c, BaBar, Belle, LHC etc., the scope for theoretical extensions of the present knowledge of heavy flavour physics would be very demanding. In this context, many relevant contributions from the forthcoming PANDA Facility are expected. Scopes and outlook of the hadron physics at the heavy flavour sector in view of the future experimental facilities are highlighted.     

Future prospects for hadron physics at P ¯ ANDA

The P¯ANDA experiment at the new FAIR facility will be the major hadron physics experiment at the end of this decade. It has an ambitious far-reaching physics program that spans the most fascinating topics that are emerging in contemporary hadron physics. The universality of the antiproton annihilation process, with either protons or nuclei as targets, allows physicists to address questions like the structure of glueballs and hybrids; to clarify the nature of the X, Y and Z states; to investigate electromagnetic channels in order to measure form factors of the nucleon; and to provide theory with input with respect to non-perturbative aspects of QCD. The possibility to use different nuclear targets opens the window for charm physics with nuclei or for color transparency studies, as well as for an intensive hypernuclear physics program. Previous experimental experience has clearly demonstrated that the key to success lies in high levels of precision complemented with sophisticated analysis methods, only possible with high statistics in the data set. However, since this puts many critical demands on the detector, P¯ANDA’s design has incorporated cutting-edge detector technologies that in some cases have surpassed even the requirements for LHC experiments.     

QCD aspects of hadron physics

Several topics in hadron physics at different scales of resolution are discussed. First, deep-inelastic scattering from nucleons and nuclei is viewed in a light-come coordinate space picture. Then the smooth transition from parton to hadron degrees of freedom is demonstrated by analysing generalized Q²-dependent polarizabilities of the nucleon. Turning to low energy QCD we summarize recent developments related to the role of strange quarks in Chiral SU(3) Dynamics, a non-perturbative coupled channel approach to hadronic processes. Finally we elaborate on a unification of QCD Sum Rules with aspects of spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking in the analysis of quark-antiquark excitations of the condensed QCD vacuum and in nuclear matter.     

Engineering the Big Chill: The Story of JLab’s Central Helium Liquefier

This article tells the story of the Central Helium Liquefier (CHL) at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (JLab), one of the US National Laboratories. JLab’s successful superconducting radio frequency accelerator was only possible because a group of JLab engineers successfully tackled a complex of difficulties to build a cryogenic system that included the CHL, a task that required advancing the frontier of cryogenic technology. Ultimately, these cryogenic advances were applied far beyond JLab to the benefit of cutting-edge programs at other US national laboratories (Oak Ridge, Brookhaven, and the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams at MSU) as well as NASA. This innovation story dramatizes the sort of engineer-driven technological problem solving that allows the successful launch and operation of experimental projects. Along the way, the CHL story also provides an important addition to our understanding of the role played by engineers and industry in creating knowledge at physics laboratories.     

Pions: unbaring their lightness of being

This lecture describes our understanding of why pions are light and how this is related to the structure of the QCD vacuum. The other lectures, on (i) the hadron world, (ii) dynamical mass generation and (iii) the Schwinger-Dyson approach to strong physics, make up the course Building hadrons with quarks, string and glue.