The influence of direct <Emphasis Type="Italic">D</Emphasis>-meson production on the determination of the nucleon strangeness asymmetry via dimuon events in neutrino experiments

Experimentally, the production of oppositely charged dimuon events by neutrino and antineutrino deep inelastic scattering (DIS) is used to determine the strangeness asymmetry inside a nucleon. Here we point out that the direct production of a D-meson in DIS may have a substantial influence on the measurement of nucleon strangeness distributions. Direct D-meson production is via heavy quark recombination (HQR) and via light-quark fragmentation from perturbative QCD (LQF-P). To see the influence precisely, we compute the direct D-meson productions via HQR and LQF-P quantitatively and estimate their corrections to the analysis of the strangeness asymmetry. The results show that HQR has a stronger effect than LQF-P does, and the former may influence the experimental determination of the nucleon strangeness asymmetry.     

Strange quark content in the nucleon

Though none of the experimental evidences for the strange quark contributions to nucleon properties is explained convincingly by an alternative, the recent experiments, even HAPPEX Collab. and A4 Collab., on a measurement of the parity-violating asymmetries show no strangeness in the proton. Despite this conclusion we demonstrate here no accidental compatibility of our theoretical predictions for nucleon strange form factors with some nonzero parity violation experimental results which strengthens our belief in the strangeness in the nucleon.     

On the instanton-induced portion of the nucleon strangeness

We calculate the instanton contribution to the proton strangeness in an MIT bag enriched by the presence of a dilute instanton liquid. The evaluation is based on the expression of the nucleon matrix elements of bilinear strange-quark operators in terms of a model valence nucleon state and the interactions producing quark–antiquark fluctuations on top of that valence state. Our method combines use of the the evolution operator containing a strangeness source and the Feynman–Hellmann theorem. It enables one to evaluate the strangeness in different Lorentz channels in essentially the same way. Only the scalar channel is found to be affected by the interaction induced by the random instanton liquid. Received: 12 February 1999 / Published online: 30 June 1999     

Double strangeness production in antiproton annihilation on nuclei

The recent data on double strangeness production after antiproton annihilation on nuclei are analyzed within the conventional picture of the reaction, namely annihilation on a single nucleon, followed by rescattering of the products in the nucleus, assumed to proceed in a hadronic phase. General expressions for single and double strangeness are derived within this picture. The relevant parameters are determined, as far as possible, from the single strangeness production yields and are used to predict double strangeness production yields. The later are compared with experiment and found consistent with the conventional picture. However, the data seem to indicate that the strangeness production in the primordial annihilation is different from what it is in nucleon-antinucleon reactions. An estimate of theΞ production rate is also performed. It is shown that the latter is much less sensitive to the rescattering process than in theΛ production case.     

The controversial role of strangeness in the spin structure of the nucleon<Superscript>⋆</Superscript>

Although the strangeness content of the nucleon is small, it has played a major role in provoking puzzles and controversies in our understanding of the internal structure of the nucleon, particularly as concerns the spin structure. We recall the role of the strange polarization in precipitating the “spin crisis in the parton model” and discuss our present knowledge of the shape and sign of Δs(x) .     

Parity Violation in Electron Quasi-Elastic Scattering

Parity violating electron scattering on a nucleus in the quasi-elastic region is investigated within a relativistic single particle model from ²⁰⁸Pb and with the incident electron energy up to 1 GeV. We discuss the effect of nucleon electromagnetic form factors by comparing the standard Sachs form factors with the parameterized form recently adjusted to the world data. The effect of the strangeness is also investigated through the recent results of the strangeness form factors, and we separately calculate the asymmetries of longitudinal and transverse response functions.     

Isospin effects on strangeness in heavy-ion collisions

Kaon properties are studied within the framework of a fully covariant transport approach. The kaon–nucleon potential is evaluated in two schemes, a chiral perturbative approach and an effective One-Boson-Exchange model. Isospin effects are explicitly accounted for in both models. The transport calculations indicate a significant sensitivity of momentum distributions and total yields of $K^{0,+}$ isospin states on the choice of the kaon–nucleon interaction. Furthermore, isospin effects are rather moderate on absolute kaon yields, but appear on strangeness ratios. This is an important issue in determining the high density symmetry energy from studies of strangeness production in heavy-ion collisions.     

奇异强子物质的有效模型描述

把 FST模型推广到包含奇异性的情形,并在平均场近似下用它来研究含有核子、Λ超子和Ξ超子的奇异强子物质的性质.讨论了有效重子质量对介质密度和奇异数含量的依赖性以及奇异强子物质的饱和性和稳定性. The strange hadronic matter with nucleon, Λ hyperon and Ξ hyperonis was studied by using an effective model in a mean field approximation. The density dependence of the effective baryon masses as well as the saturation properties and stabilities of the strange hadronic matter were discussed. The result indicates a quite large strangeness fraction range where the multi hyperon nuclear matter is stable against particle emission. In the large strangeness fraction region the Ξ component dominates...     

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。     

基于Pluto事件产生器对兰州强子物理谱仪上主要反应道的模拟研究

为了在 GeV 能区开展核子核子相互作用中强子的产生和衰变的实验研究, 将在 HIRFL CSR 主环上建造一台兰州强子物理谱仪（HPLUS）。 首先结合 HPLUS 的初步构型阐明了针对不同极角区域的粒子鉴别方法, 接着介绍了在蒙特卡罗模拟中使用的 Pluto 事件产生器, 并针对 HPLUS上主要的反应道模拟研究了: Pluto 产生的质子质子弹性散射的角分布和实验数据的符合程度; 在产生 K 介子的反应道中, HPLUS 前角区对 K 介子的接收度; 强子衰变产生光子的最大能量和两个光子的最小夹角随极角区域的变化情况; 不同的重建方法对核子激发态质量谱形状的影响。以上研究说明了 Pluto 事件产生器可以满足 HPLUS 模拟的需要。 Hadron Physics Lanzhou Spectrometer (HPLUS) is designed for the study of hadron production and decay from nucleon nucleon interaction in the GeV region. The current formation of HPLUS and the particle identification methodsfor three polar angle regions are discussed. The Pluto event generator is applied to simulate the primary reactions on HPLUS, concerning four issues as followed: the agreement on pp elastic scattering angular distribution between Pluto samples and experimental data; the acceptance of charged K mesons in the strangeness production channels for the forward region of HPLUS; thedependence of the maximum energy of photons and the minimum vertexangle of two photons on the polar angle; the influence on the mass spectrum of excited states of nucleon with large resonant width from different reconstruction methods. It is proved that the Pluto event generator satisfies the requirements of Monte Carlo simulation for HPLUS.     

奇异强子与核子的相互作用

包含s夸克的强子称为奇异强子,它与核子相互作用的研究近年来有了长足发展 .在指出这种研究的重要意义后,从实验和理论两方面介绍奇异强子 (主要是K介子和超子 )与核子相互作用的研究现状及方法等 ,包括运动学和动力学机制、介子交换模型和夸克模型解释诸方面的问题. We try to highlight some of the key issues regarding the interactions between strange hadron and nucleon, which relate to the kinematics and dynamics mechanism, meson exchange model and quark model. Starting from a brief introduction on the main research goals, we focus on the status of experimental and theoretical investigations of kaon nucleon and hyperon nucleon interactions, which may be considered to be a necessary basis for the studies of nuclear physics with strangeness.     

Strangeness content and structure function of the nucleon in a statistical quark model

The strangeness content of the nucleon is determined from a statistical model using confined quark levels, and is shown to have a good agreement with the corresponding values extracted from experimental data. The quark levels are generated in a Dirac equation that uses a linear confining potential (scalar plus vector). With the requirement that the result for the Gottfried sum rule violation, given by the New Muon Collaboration (NMC), is well reproduced, we also obtain the difference between the structure functions of the proton and neutron, and the corresponding sea quark contributions. Received: 15 March 1999 / Revised version: 15 April 1999 / Published online: 14 October 1999     

Isospin mixing in the nucleon and 4He and the nucleon strange electric form factor

In order to isolate the contribution of the nucleon strange electric form factor to the parity-violating asymmetry measured in 4He(e-->],e')4He experiments, it is crucial to have a reliable estimate of the magnitude of isospin-symmetry-breaking (ISB) corrections in both the nucleon and 4He. We examine this issue in the present Letter. Isospin admixtures in the nucleon are determined in chiral perturbation theory, while those in 4He are derived from nuclear interactions, including explicit ISB terms. A careful analysis of the model dependence in the resulting predictions for the nucleon and nuclear ISB contributions to the asymmetry is carried out. We conclude that, at the low momentum transfers of interest in recent measurements reported by the HAPPEX Collaboration at Jefferson Lab, these contributions are of comparable magnitude to those associated with strangeness components in the nucleon electric form factor.     

MULTI-LAMBDA MATTER IN A CHIRAL HADRONIC MODEL

Multi-lambda matter is investigated in the framework of a chiral hadronic model. It is shown that multi-lambda matter consisting of {N,Λ} is a metastable state as the strangeness per baryon and the density of hadronic matter are varied. The effective lambda mass decreases as the baryon density increases, and remains larger than that of the nucleon.     

Hyperon beta-decay and axial charges of the lambda in view of strongly distorted baryon wave-functions

Within the collective coordinate approach to chiral soliton models we suggest that breaking of SU(3) flavor symmetry mainly resides in the baryon wave-functions while the charge operators maintain a symmetric structure. Sizable symmetry breaking in the wave-functions is required to reproduce the observed spacing in the spectrum of the  baryons. The matrix elements of the flavor symmetric charge operators nevertheless yield g_A/g_V ratios for hyperon beta-decay which agree with the empirical data approximately as well as the successful F&D parameterization of the Cabibbo scheme. Demanding the strangeness component in the nucleon to vanish in the two flavor limit of the model, determines the structure of the singlet axial charge operator and yields the various quark flavor components of the axial charge of the Λ-hyperon. The suggested picture gains support from calculations in a realistic model using pion and vector meson degrees of freedom to build up the soliton.     

Form factors in lattice QCD

Lattice simulations of QCD have produced precise estimates for the masses of the lowest-lying hadrons which show excellent agreement with experiment. By contrast, lattice results for the vector and axial vector form factors of the nucleon show significant deviations from their experimental determination. We present results from our ongoing project to compute a variety of form factors with control over all systematic uncertainties. In the case of the pion electromagnetic form factor we employ partially twisted boundary conditions to extract the pion charge radius directly from the linear slope of the form factor near vanishing momentum transfer. In the nucleon sector we focus specifically on the possible contamination from contributions of higher excited states. We argue that summed correlation functions offer the possibility of eliminating this source of systematic error. As an illustration of the method we discuss our results for the axial charge, g _A , of the nucleon.     

Hyperon coupling dependence of hadron matter properties in relativistic mean field model

The properties of hadronic matter at β equilibrium in a wide range of densities are described by appropriate equations of state in the framework of the relativistic mean field model. Strange meson fields, namely the scalar meson field σ＊（975） and the vector meson field φ（1020）, are included in the present work. We discuss and compare the results of the equation of state, nucleon effective mass, and strangeness fraction obtained by adopting the TM1, TMA, and GL parameter sets for nuclear sector and three different choices for the hypcron couplings. We find that the parameter set TM1 favours the onset of hyperons most, while at high densities the GL parameter set leads to the most hyperon-rich matter. For a certain parameter set （e.g. TM1）, the most hyperon-rich matter is obtained for the hyperon potential model. The influence of the hyperon couplings on the effective mass of nucleon, is much weaker than that on the nucleon parameter set. The nonstrange mesons dominate essentially the global properties of dense hyperon matter. The hyperon potential model predicts the lowest value of the neutron star maximum mass of about 1.45 Msun to be 0.4--0.5 Msun lower than the prediction by using the other choices for hyperon couplings.[第一段]     

Kaon in flight excitation of strangeness analog states

Strangeness-exchange reactions induced by kaons in flight on nuclei have been investigated. A two-channel optical potential is derived by folding a suitable chosen $\text{K}\text{N}$ potential that reproduces the $\text{K}\text{N}$ reaction data into the nucleon density. The deduced potential, invariant with respect to the SU(3) Sakata symmetry, describes elastic scattering and the reaction in which the kaon is transformed into a pion, and the target into a strangeness analog state that belongs to the same SU(3) supermultiplet. The calculated cross sections for the excitation of strangeness analog states are for light elements of the order of a few milibarns and show broad giant resonance-like maxima.     

Δ(1232) axial charge and form factors from lattice QCD

We present the first calculation on the Δ axial?vector and pseudoscalar form factors using lattice QCD. Two Goldberger-Treiman relations are derived and examined. A combined chiral fit is performed to the nucleon axial charge, N to Δ axial transition coupling constant and Δ axial charge.