Asymptotic completeness for a quark model of meson scattering

We prove asymptotic completeness for the scattering of two non-relativistic spinless mesons, when each meson is composed of a quark and antiquark bound together by a confining potential, so that free quarks may not result from the collision.     

NΩ束缚态问题的研究

从夸克 反夸克通过介子场耦合的模型出发研究了(N)LST是否存在束缚态的问题. 计算表明当考虑了u(d)湮灭K*为介子的机制后, (N)LST是有可能形成结合能较大的束缚态. The structures of (N)LST systems are studied in the SU(3)quark model， in which the coupling between quark antiquark and the meson fields are included. A resonating group method (RGM) calculation shows that (N)0212could be a bound state with considerably large binding energy， when the mechanism of u(d) annihilation to K* is considered.     

Gluon and quark jets in a recursive model motivated by quantum chromodynamics

We compute observable quantities like the multiplicity and momentum distributions of hadrons in gluon and quark jets in the framework of a recursive cascade model, which is strongly motivated by the fundamental interactions of QCD. Fragmentation occurs via 3 types of breakups: quark → meson+ quark, gluon→meson+gluon, gluon→quark+ antiquark. In our model gluon jets are softer than quark jets. The ratio of gluon jet to quark jet multiplicity is found to be 2 asymptotically, but much less at lower energies. Some phenomenological consequences for λ decay are discussed.     

A static calculation of radiative decay widths of mesons in a potential model of independent quarks

Taking a relativistic potential model of independent quarks with its parameters determined from a fit to the mass splittings of ground state mesons in the strange, charm and bottom flavor sector, we perform a ‘static’ calculation of decay widths for the radiative transitions of mesons within the conventional picture of photon emission by a confined quark and/or antiquark. The results obtained in most of the cases of light mesons are in an overall agreement with the experimental values. The predictions in heavy meson decays are comparable to those of other model calculations.     

A logical explanation for quarks

We construct a quantum logic which generates the usual quark states. It follows from this model that quarks can combine only in quark-antiquark pairs and quark (and antiquark) triples. The ground meson and baryon states are also generated and gluons are discussed.     

H-particle in a chiral quark model

In this paper we discuss the binding energy of the H-particle using a chiral quark model, where pion exchange plays an important role to reproduce the mass difference between the nucleon and Δ resonance. Since the main source for the bound H-particle is believed to be the color magnetic interaction, which gives the nucleon and Δ mass difference, it is very interesting to investigate whether the chiral quark model gives rise to the bound H-particle or not. We employ an extended resonating group method in order to take into account the possibility of a change of baryon wave functions when two baryons interact with each other. We found that a change of baryon size together with the Hamiltonian which consists of gluon, pseudoscalar meson and sigma meson exchange potentials gives rise to the bound H-particle. The binding energy is found to be about 25 MeV in a hybrid chiral quark model. Differences between the ordinary gluon dominant model and chiral quark models are also investigated. It is found that a pure chiral model has no bound state when the widely used sigma-quark coupling strength is employed.     

Spinor strong interaction model for meson spectra

A model for a bound quark-antiquark system is constructed from quark spinor equations and the associated pseudoscalar massless interaction potential equations in a way departing from conventional relativistic quantum mechanics. From the so-constructed covariant meson equations, linear confinement arises naturally. Nonlinear radial equations for the pseudoscalar and vector mesons in the rest frame are derived without approximation. An internal complex space is introduced for representation of the quark flavors. Quark masses are generalized to operators operating on functions in this space. A simple model is proposed for the meson internal functions and mass operators producing the squares of the average quark masses as eigenvalues. The present space-time model calls for a particle classification scheme different from the usual nonrelativistic one. When combined with the internal model, it may account for the gross structure of the meson spectra together with the form of an empirical relation. Upper limits of bare quark masses are estimated from simplified analytical solutions of the radial equations and agree approximately with the bare quark masses obtained from baryon data in a companion paper. The radial equations are solved numerically yielding estimates of the strong interaction radii of the ground state mesons.     

Mesons in the Constituent Quark Model

The quark-antiquark （q^-q） spectrum is studied by solving the Schrōdinger equation in the framework of nonrelativistic constituent quark model. An overall good fit to the experimental data of meson is obtained. The interactions between quark and antiquark consist of quadratic colour confinement-exchange, one-gluon-exchange, and Goldstone-boson-exchange potentials.     

Excited flux tube from q¯g hybrid mesons

In the framework of quark models, hybrid mesons are either seen as two-body qˉ systems with an excited flux tube connecting the quark to the antiquark or as three-body qˉg systems including a constituent gluon. In this work we show that, starting from the three-body wave function of the qˉg hybrid meson in which the gluonic degrees of freedom are averaged, the excited flux tube picture emerges as an equivalent qˉ potential. This equivalence between the excited flux tube and the constituent-gluon approach is confirmed for heavy hybrid mesons but, for the first time, it is shown to hold in the light sector too, provided the contribution of the quark dynamics is correctly taken into account.     

Wave functions and decay constants of <Emphasis Type="Italic">B</Emphasis> and <Emphasis Type="Italic">D</Emphasis> mesons in the relativistic potential model

With the decay constants of D and D _s mesons measured in experiment recently, we revisit the study of the bound states of quark and antiquark in B and D mesons in the relativistic potential model. The relativistic bound state wave equation is solved numerically. The masses, decay constants and wave functions of B and D mesons are obtained. Both the masses and decay constants obtained here can be seen as consistent with the experimental data. The wave functions can be used in the study of B and D meson decays.     

Heavy Pseudoscalar Mesons in a Schwinger-Dyson–Bethe-Salpeter Approach

The mass spectrum of heavy pseudoscalar mesons, as quark–antiquark bound systems, is considered within the Bethe-Salpeter formalism with momentum-dependent masses of the constituents. This dependence is prior found by solving the Schwinger-Dyson equation for quark propagators in rainbow-ladder approximation. Such approximation is known to provide fast convergence of numerical methods and accurate results for lightest mesons. However, as the meson mass increases, the method becomes less stable and special attention must be devoted to details of means of solving the corresponding equations. We focus on the pseudoscalar sector and show that our numerical scheme describes fairly accurately the π, K, D, D _s and η _c ground states. The excited states are considered as well. Our calculations are directly related to future physics at FAIR.     

Stability of asymmetric tetraquarks in the minimal-path linear potential

The linear potential binding a quark and an antiquark in mesons is generalized to baryons and multiquark configurations as the minimal length of flux tubes neutralizing the color, in units of the string tension. For tetraquark systems, i.e., two quarks and two antiquarks, this involves the two possible quark–antiquark pairings, and the Steiner tree linking the quarks to the antiquarks. A novel inequality for this potential demonstrates rigorously that within this model the tetraquark is stable in the limit of large quark-to-antiquark mass ratio.     

Chiral symmetry breaking in an instantaneous approximation to Coulomb gauge QCD

We analyze the interplay between explicit and spontaneous chiral-symmetry breaking in Coulomb gauge QCD. Quark and pseudoscalar meson properties are investigated, using an instantaneous approximation to gluon exchange, with momentum-dependent coupling constants and current quark masses in agreement with the full QCD renormalization group equations. We show how a finite momentum-dependent constituent quark mass can be defined even for a confining interaction between the quarks, and derive an integral equation for this constituent mass from the renormalized Dyson-Schwinger equations. This equation is shown to be equivalent to a gap equation derived in a Bogoliubov-Valatin variational method from the model's hamiltonian. Including momentum-dependent current masses also ensures a finite value for the quark condensate. We report numerical results for a purely confining and for a Richardson potential for the Coulombic part of the quark-antiquark potential. Transverse gluons are included in the Breit approximation, neglecting retardation. As a confining Breit interaction leads to an infrared inconsistency in the model, and since there is mounting evidence for a dynamical gluon mass, such a mass is included. Numerical results for the constituent quark mass for one flavour, for different values of the current mass, are reported, together with the corresponding energy densities, quark condensates, pseudoscalar meson masses and pseudoscalar meson decay constants. The results are encouraging from a phenomenological point of view.     

Relationship between quark-antiquark potential and quark-antiquark free energy in hadronic matter

In high-temperature quark-gluon plasma and its subsequent hadronic matter created in a high-energy nucleus-nucleus collision, the quark-antiquark potential depends on the temperature. The temperature-dependent potential is expected to be derived from the free energy obtained in lattice gauge theory calculations. This requires one to study the relationship between the quark-antiquark potential and the quark-antiquark free energy. When the system's temperature is above the critical temperature, the potential of a heavy quark and a heavy antiquark almost equals the free energy, but the potential of a light quark and a light antiquark, of a heavy quark and a light antiquark and of a light quark and a heavy antiquark is substantially larger than the free energy. When the system's temperature is below the critical temperature, the quark-antiquark free energy can be taken as the quark-antiquark potential. This allows one to apply the quark-antiquark free energy to study hadron properties and hadron-hadron reactions in hadronic matter.     

The Strong Interaction in Chromodynamics Ⅱ

A static soliton solution is obtained from the field equations of chromodynamics. The relativistic wave equation for meson states in which the quark and antiquark interact through the intermediary of this gluon field gives rise. to the same wavefunction and mass spectra obtained before under the independent particle approximation. The calculated values of mass difference of η_c and Ψ/J particles and mass difference of Ψ(3685) and Ψ(3770) due to spin-dependent part of the interaction are in good agreement with the experiment.     

In-medium operator product expansion for heavy-light-quark pseudoscalar mesons

The operator product expansion (OPE) for heavy-light-quark pseudoscalar mesons (D -mesons and B -mesons) in medium is determined, both for a moving meson with respect to the surrounding medium as well as for a meson at rest. First of all, the OPE is given in terms of normal-ordered operators up to mass dimension 5, and the mass of the heavy quark and the mass of the light quark are kept finite. The Wilson coefficients of such an expansion are infrared (IR) divergent in the limit of a vanishing light-quark mass. A consistent separation of scales necessitates an OPE in terms of non-normal-ordered operators, which implies operator mixing, where the IR-divergences are absorbed into the operators. It is shown that the Wilson coefficients of such an expansion are IR-stable, and the limit of a vanishing light-quark mass is perfomed. Details of the major steps for the calculation of the Wilson coefficients are presented. By a comparison with previous results obtained by other theoretical groups we have found serious disagreements.