Quark condensates in nuclear matter with vacuum effects

On the basis of a bosonized Nambu- Jona-Lasinio (NJL) model with derivative expansions, quark condensates in nuclear matter are studied at one-quark loop level and the dependence of meson masses and couplings on the constituent quark mass is investigated. The condensate ratio obtained here < q?q > _ρB / < q?q > _vac is roughly 0.66 with constituent quark mass of 313 MeV, which yields a corresponding σ _N value to be roughly 42.2 MeV at the mean field level and σ _N =31.4 MeV with the vacuum dependence, where the model parameters describing a Lorentz scalar and a vector field are self-determined.     

Observation of the Heavy Baryons Sigma b and Sigma b*

We report an observation of new bottom baryons produced in pp collisions at the Tevatron. Using 1.1 fb(-1) of data collected by the CDF II detector, we observe four Lambda b 0 pi+/- resonances in the fully reconstructed decay mode Lambda b 0-->Lambda c + pi-, where Lambda c+-->pK* pi+. We interpret these states as the Sigma b(*)+/- baryons and measure the following masses: m Sigma b+=5807.8 -2.2 +2.0(stat.)+/-1.7(syst.) MeV/c2, m Sigma b- =5815.2+/-1.0(stat.)+/-1.7(syst.) MeV/c2, and m(Sigma b*)-m(Sigma b)=21.2-1.9 +2.0(stat.)-0.3+0.4(syst.) MeV/c2.     

Multiquark picture for Σ (1620)

In this work we report on a new QCD sum rule analysis to predict masses of the excited baryon states (e.g. Σ (1620) and Λ (1405)) by using multiquark interpolating fields ((qˉq)(qqq)). For the Σ (1620) we consider the ˉKN, πΣ, and πΛ (I = 1) multiquark interpolating fields. The calculated mass from those multiquark states is about 1.592 GeV. For the Λ (1405) we first show the result using the π⁺Σ⁻+π⁰Σ⁰+π⁻Σ⁺ (I = 0) multiquark interpolating field, and compare the calculated mass to that of our previous result using the π⁰Σ⁰ multiquark state. We then show that the mass 1.405 GeV is well reproduced when using the ˉKN (I = 0) multiquark state. The uncertainties in our sum rules are also discussed. Received: 7 September 1998 / Revised version: 5 January 2000     

Mass spectra and leptonic decay widths of heavy quarkonia

A nonrelativistic Hamiltonian with plausible spin dependent corrections is proposed for the quarkonia below their respective strong decay thresholds. With only six free parameters this model reproduces the nine known masses of the bottomonia within about 1 MeV, the six known masses of the charmonia within a few MeV and the five known leptonic decay widths of the states within about 20%. The model is then used to predict the masses of the remaining 43 qu arkonia (some of them for the first time) and of the leptonic decay widths of the two states. Comparison with some other models is made. Received: 17 June 1997     

¯N interaction from meson-exchange and quark-gluon dynamics

We investigate the ˉN interaction at low energies using a meson exchange model supplemented with a short-distance contribution from one-gluon exchange. The model is developed in close analogy to the meson-exchange KN interaction of the Jülich group utilizing SU(4) symmetry constraints. The main ingredients of the interaction are provided by vector meson (ρ , ω exchange and higher-order box diagrams involving ˉ^* N , ˉΔ , and ˉ^*Δ intermediate states. The short-range part is assumed to receive additional contributions from genuine quark-gluon processes. The predicted cross-sections for ˉN for excess energies up to 150MeV are of the same order of magnitude as those for KN but with average values of around 20mb, roughly a factor two larger than for the latter system. It is found that the ω -exchange plays a very important role. Its interference pattern with the ρ -exchange, which is basically fixed by the assumed SU(4) symmetry, clearly determines the qualitative features of the ˉN interaction --very similiar to what happens also for the KN system.     

Investigations on the scattering of α-particles on Li

Excitation functions of α-scattering on ⁷Li leading to the ground and first excited states have been measured in the bombarding energy regions 8.6–12.5 MeV and 17.0–22.5 MeV at c.m. scattering angles of 54.2°, 72.4° and 89.8°. A systematic deviation from smooth behaviour is revealed which, because of its regularity, is attributed to the exchange of a triton cluster between two α-particles.     

OZI rule violation in p¯p annihilation into φππ by two step processes

The φπ⁺π⁻ production in pˉp annihilation at rest is strongly enhanced by a two step mechanism with intermediate KˉKππ states. The relative yield of the φ production due to the resonant final state interaction decreases with increasing total energy of the pˉp system. Received: 4 August 1997     

Poincaré-Covariant Quark Models of Baryon Form Factors

Poincaré-covariant quark models of the nucleon, the resonance and their excitations are explored. The baryon states are represented by eigenfunctions of the four-velocity and a confining mass operator, which reproduces the empirical baryon masses up to 1700 MeV to an accuracy of . Models of constituent-quark currents provide the relations between ground-state properties and transition amplitudes. Received July 22, 1997; revised June 16, 1998; accepted for publication July 29, 1998     

Measurement of bottom-quark hadron masses in exclusive J/psi decays with the CDF detector

We measure the masses of b hadrons in exclusively reconstructed final states containing a J/psi --> mu-mu+ decay using 220 pb(-1) of data collected by the CDF II experiment. We find: m(B+) = 5279.10 +/- 0.41(stat.) +/- 0.36(sys.) MeV/c2, m(B0) = 5279.63 +/- 0.53(stat.) +/- 0.33(sys.) MeV/c2, m(B(s)0) = 5366.01 +/- 0.73(stat.) +/- 0.33(sys.) MeV/c2, m(lambda(b)0) = 5619.7 +/- 1.2(stat.) +/- 1.2(sys.) MeV/c2. m(B+) - m(B0) = -0.53 +/- 0.67(stat.) +/- 0.14(sys.) MeV/c2, m(B(s)0) - m(B0) = 86.38 +/- 0.90(stat.) +/- 0.06(sys.) MeV/c2, m(lambda(b)0) - m(B0) = 339.2 +/- 1.4(stat.) +/- 0.1(sys.) MeV/c2. The measurements of the B(s)0, lambda(b)0 mass, m(B(s)0) - m(B0) and m(lambda(b)0) - m(B0) mass difference are of better precision than the current world averages.     

Mean field model with excluded volume correction for a multicomponent hadron gas

A phenomenological mean field formalism developed to incorporate the excluded volume correction arising due to a hard-core repulsion between a pair of baryons has been extended for a multicomponent hadron gas involving strangeness degrees of freedom. The resulting equation of state (EOS) is used to study the medium modifications of the nucleon and hyperon masses with the temperature T and the chemical potential μ. The variations of the effective masses of the baryons with respect to the temperature at μ = 0 shows a striking difference from that obtained in the Walecka model for T > 150 MeV. Similar difference can also be noticed in the variations of the baryon density with temperature.     

Particle masses,force constants,and Spin(8)

From a number of qualitative conjectures, the constantsm _e ,c, , and a spin(8) gauge field theory, I derive the following particle masses (quark masses are constituent masses) and force constants: up quark mass=312.7542 MeV; down quark mass=312.7542 MeV; proton mass=938.2626 MeV; neutrino masses (all types)=0; muon mass=104.76 MeV; strange quark mass=523 MeV; charmed quark mass=1989 MeV; tauon mass=1877 MeV; bottom quark mass=5631 MeV; top quark mass=129.5 GeV;W ⁺ mass=80.87 GeV;W ^– mass=80.87 GeV;W ₀ mass=99.04 GeV; fine structure constant= 1/137.036082; weak constant times the proton mass squared M _p ² =0.97×10^–5; color constant=0.6286. From the pion mass in addition, I derive the Planck mass (1–1.6)×10¹⁹ GeV, so that the gravitational constant times the proton mass squared GM _p ² (3.6–8.8)×10^–39.     

Hadron mass spectrum from lattice QCD

Finite temperature lattice simulations of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) are sensitive to the hadronic mass spectrum for temperatures below the "critical" temperature T(c) ≈ 160 MeV. We show that a recent precision determination of the QCD trace anomaly shows evidence for the existence of a large number of hadron states beyond those known from experiment. The lattice results are well represented by an exponentially growing mass spectrum up to a temperature T=155 MeV. Using simple parametrizations of the hadron mass spectrum we show how one may estimate the total spectral weight in these yet undermined states.     

A candidate for a four-quark vector-meson?

Previous claims for the existence of vector mesons with masses in the vicinity of 1100 MeV and 1300 MeV are reconsidered in the light of recent developments in the analysis and interpretation ofe ⁺ e ^? annihilation and diffractive photoproduction data. It is shown that these states are compatible with present evidence and can be incorporated in an extended mixing scheme of conventional \(q\bar q\) with unconventional \(qq\bar q \bar q\) states.     

Electromagnetic vertex function of the pion at T>0

The matrix element of the electromagnetic current between pion states is calculated in quenched lattice QCD at a temperature of T=0.93 T_c. The non-perturbatively improved Sheikholeslami–Wohlert action is used together with the corresponding improved vector current. The electromagnetic vertex function is extracted for pion masses down to 360 MeV and momentum transfers Q²≤2.7 GeV².     

Puzzle of anomalously large isospin violations in η(1405/1475)→3π

The BES-III Collaboration recently reported the observation of anomalously large isospin violations in J/ψ→γη(1405/1475)→γπ(0)f(0)(980)→γ+3π, where the f(0)(980) in the ππ invariant mass spectrum appears to be much narrower (~10 MeV) than the peak width (~50 MeV) measured in other processes. We show that a mechanism, named as triangle singularity (TS), can produce a narrow enhancement between the charged and neutral KKˉ thresholds, i.e., 2m(K(±))~2m(K(0)). It can also lead to different invariant mass spectra for η(1405/1475)→a(0)(980)π and KK ˉ*+c.c., which can possibly explain the long-standing puzzle about the need for two close states η(1405) and η(1475) in ηππ and KKˉπ, respectively. The TS could be a key to our understanding of the nature of η(1405/1475) and advance our knowledge about the mixing between a(0)(980) and f(0)(980).     

Nucleon-nucleus optical model potential: (1). Nuclear matter approach

We present a new method for the approximate solution of the Bethe-Goldstone equation when it has a singular kernel. The method reduces the integral equation to a set of coupled differential equations which are easily solved. In the special case of binding energy calculations, non-singular kernel, our method is equivalent to the reference spectrum method. A particular advantage is that there is no ambiguity in the treatment of hard-core N-N interactions. We perform calculations both for the Hamada-Johnston and Reid hard-core internucleon potentials and in intermediate states always use self-consistent single-particle energies. We apply the method to calculate in nuclear matter the binding energy/nucleon and the nucleon optical potential. Our results for the binding energy differ by about 2 MeV from those published for similar calculations. The difference is a consequence of our use of self-consistent energies and a greater number of partial waves, L ≦ 4. For the optical potential we obtain a logarithmic variation with incident energy E for E > 100 MeV, in agreement with experimental data. We also obtain better agreement with experiment than other authors for the energy variation in the the range 40 MeV < E < 100 MeV. This improvement is a consequence of our use of a higher number of partial waves.     

Donors in a strong magnetic field and elastic magnetic-impurity resonance in diamondlike semiconductors

The possibility of resonance during elastic intravalley scattering in n-type semiconductors is investigated in connection with the crossing (due to anisotropy of the effective mass) of the energy levels of excited states of a shallow donor as functions of the magnetic field. The hybridization of states of different frequencies in the vicinity of a crossing is attributed to the emergence of a nonzero dipole moment of the excited impurity atom and, accordingly, a long-range potential, which creates carrier-transport anomalies. The lower part of the donor spectrum is calculated as a function of the magnetic field in Si with B∥〈001〉 and in Ge with B∥〈111〉 or B∥〈110〉. A crossing occurs in Ge in the field range 9.9 T<B<16.7 T and in Si in the field range 10.5 T<B<37.7 T. The characteristic longitudinal relaxation time and the transverse conductivity, which are determined by scattering at excited donors in the presence of the hybridization of states, are calculated. Zh. éksp. Teor. Fiz. 112, 975–1010 (September 1997)     

Thermal QCD sum rules study of vector charmonium and bottomonium states

We calculate the masses and leptonic decay constants of the heavy vector quarkonia, J/ψ and ϒ mesons at finite temperature. In particular, considering the thermal spectral density as well as additional operators coming up at finite temperature, the thermal QCD sum rules are acquired. Our numerical calculations demonstrate that the masses and decay constants are insensitive to the variation of temperature up to T ≅ 100 MeV, however after this point, they start to fall altering the temperature. At deconfinement temperature, the decay constants attain roughly to 45% of their vacuum values, while the masses are diminished about 12%, and 2.5% for J/ψ and ϒ states, respectively. The obtained results at zero temperature are in good consistency with the existing experimental data as well as predictions of the other nonperturbative models.     

Experimental observation of the Σ hypernuclei, ΣH and ΣC

The hypernuclei _Σ⁶H and _Σ¹⁶C were observed by the (K⁻, π⁺) reaction on targets of ⁶Li and liquid O, respectively, at 713 MeV/c incident K⁻ momentum. Structure is seen in _Σ⁶H which may be interpreted in terms of particle-hole excitations similar to the previously observed states in _Λ⁶Li. The inablitity to resolve individual Σ hypernuclear levels in _Σ¹⁶C, due in part to the excitation of non-coherent states as a result of the large momentum transfer of about 130 MeV/c, precludes the extraction of the Σ-nucleus spin-orbit potential strength. The Σ-nucleus well depth appears to be 7 to 10 MeV less than that for the Λ.     

Electrical and optical properties and stabilization of the Fermi level in GaP crystals irradiated by electrons and H+ ions

Electrical and optical properties and Fermi level stabilization are studied in GaP crystals irradiated by electrons (E2.2 MeV, D1·10¹⁹ cm^–2) and H⁺ ions (E5 MeV, D1.7·10¹⁶ cm^–2). It is shown that the limiting position of the Fermi level (F_limE_G/2±0.2 eV) is independent of the initial GaP parameters and the type of bombarding particle, but is determined by the condition of local neutrality of the defective GaP. Resistivity values for the irradiated specimens of _max(D)1·10¹³ ·cm were obtained at 300 K. At maximum integral particle fluxes a decrease in crystal resistivity to (3–6)·10⁹ ·cm was observed. The readjustment of GaP absorption spectra in the region hvE_G upon irradiation is related to recharging of gap states by radiation defects upon motion of the Fermi level toward F_lim.Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 12, pp. 37–42, December, 1994.