QCD Multipole Expansion and Hadronic Transitions in Heavy Quarkonium Systems

We review the developments of the multipole expansion approach in quantum chromodynamics and its applications to hadronic transitions and some radiative decays of heavy quarkonia. Theoretical predictions are compared with updated experimental results.     

Quarkonium polarization in pp and p-nucleus collisions

The existing measurements of quarkonium polarization in proton-antiproton and proton-nucleus collisions are puzzling. We highlight issues which are often underestimated in the experimental analyses: the importance of the choice of the experimental acceptance on the comparison between experimental measurements and theoretical calculations. New measurements must provide more detailed information, such that physical conclusions can be derived without relying on model-dependent assumptions. We also describe a frame-invariant formalism which minimizes the dependence of the measurements on the experimental acceptance, facilitates the comparison with theoretical calculations, and probes systematic effects due to experimental biases.     

An Abelian Ward identity and the vertex corrections to the color superconducting gap

We derive an Abelian-like Ward identity in the color superconducting phase and calculate vertex corrections to the color superconducting gap. Making use of the Ward identity, we show that subleading order contributions to the gap from vertices are absent for gapped excitations.     

五夸克态进展

对2003年和2004年强子物理研究中的热点——五夸克态,从实验进展和理论研究上进行了较为详细的介绍,对研究的现状进行了评价和展望,同时介绍了国内一些研究小组在五夸克态研究中做出的贡献.     

An Abelian Ward identity and the vertex corrections to the color superconducting gap

We derive an Abelian-like Ward identity in the color superconducting phase and calculate vertex corrections to the color superconducting gap. Making use of the Ward identity, we show that subleading order contributions to the gap from vertices are absent for gapped excitations.     

Isospin violation,light quark masses,and all that

Isospin violation is driven through the light quark mass difference and electromagnetic effects.I review recent progress in extracting the light quark mass difference and tests of the chiral dynamics of Quantum Chromodynamics in various reactions involving light as well as heavy quarks.     

Lattice quantum chromodynamics equation of state: A better differential method

We propose a better differential method for the computation of the equation of state of QCD from lattice simulations. In contrast to the earlier differential method, our technique yields positive pressure for all temperatures including the temperatures in the transition region. Employing it on temporal lattices of 8, 10 and 12 sites and by extrapolating to zero lattice spacing we obtained the pressure, energy density, entropy density, specific heat and speed of sound in quenched QCD for 0.9 ≤ T/T _c ≤ 3. At high temperatures comparisons of our results are made with those from the dimensional reduction approach and also with those from a conformal symmetric theory.      

Isospin violation, light quark masses, and all that

Isospin violation is driven through the light quark mass difference and electromagnetic effects. I review recent progress in extracting the light quark mass difference and tests of the chiral dynamics of Quantum Chromodynamics in various reactions involving light as well as heavy quarks.     

A survey of lattice results on finite temperature quantum chromodynamics

The talk summarizes some new results of lattice investigations of QCD at finite temperature. The topics discussed cover the flavor dependence of the critical temperature and the equation-of-state as well as hadronic correlation functions.     

Quark-clustering in cold quark matter

Quarks are proposed to be grouped together to make quark-clusters due to the strong interaction in cold quark matter at a few nuclear densities, because a weakly coupling treatment of the interaction between quarks there would be inadequate. Cold quark matter is then conjectured to be in solid state (i.e., forming a crystal structure) if the inter-cluster potential is deep enough to localize clusters in lattice. Such a solid state of cold quark matter would be very necessary for us to understand different manifestations of pulsar-like compact stars, and could not be ruled by first principles.     

Quark-clustering in cold quark matter

Quarks are proposed to be grouped together to make quark-clusters due to the strong interaction in cold quark matter at a few nuclear densities,because a weakly coupling treatment of the interaction between quarks there would be inadequate.Cold quark matter is then conjectured to be in solid state （i.e.,forming a crystal structure） if the inter-cluster potential is deep enough to localize clusters in lattice.Such a solid state of cold quark matter would be very necessary for us to understand different manifestations of pulsar-like compact stars,and could not be ruled by first principles.     

相对论夸克模型对重夸克偶素质量谱的研究

介绍了量子场论中基于准势途径的一个相对论夸克模型,并使用这个相对论夸克模型计算了重夸克偶素的质量谱.显示这个相对论夸克模型可较好地拟合实验上肯定的质量谱数据. A relativistic quark model based on the quasipotential approach in quantum field theory is briefly introduced, and by using this model, heavy quarkonium mass spectra are calculated in detail. It is shown that such a model can give results which are in agreement with the observed experimental data on the mass spectra.     

Heavy meson spectra for heavy quark potential in quantum chromodynamics with dilaton

For heavy meson systems, we study the heavy quark potential, which emerges from the effective dilaton－gluon coupling inspired from the superstring theory. We put emphasis on the new confinement generating mechanism of this potential through the investigation of the spin-averaged energy levels of the heavy meson systems. By using a unified approach to the solutions of the Schr?dinger and the spinless Salpeter equations, we can examine in a realistic way the effects of using a relativistic kinetic energy. The obtained results agree favourably with other predictions, and the relativistic equation can better account for the observed energy levels.     

Generation of gluons from quark confinement

We study a model of quark confinement defined by the vanishing of colour currents. The model is shown to be equivalent to quantum chromodynamics and this equivalence is interpreted as due to the compositeness of the colour gluons. The Green’s functions of the theory are found to contain nontrivial structure only for colour singlet composites which can be identified with hadrons.     

有限温度奇异夸克物质

本文简要介绍了近年来有限温度下奇异夸克物质的研究,包括早期宇宙中大块奇异夸克物质的研究;基于ＭＩＴ袋模型的ｓｔｒａｎｇｅｌｅｔ研究,以及运用质量密度相关模型对奇异夸克物质的研究,最后简略评述了关于奇异夸克物质性质的近期研究进展     

Charmonium spectroscopy —A review

A review is presented of the latest developments in the spectroscopy of charmonium.     

The QCD critical point: an exciting Odyssey in the Femto-world

Strongly interacting matter, which makes up the nuclei of atoms, is described by a theory called quantum chromodynamics (QCD). A critical point in the phase diagram of QCD, if established either theoretically or experimentally, would be as profound a discovery as the familiar gas–liquid critical point discovered in the nineteenth century. Due to the extremely short-lived nature of the concerned phases, novel experimental techniques are needed to search for it. The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) in USA has an experimental programme which can fit the bill to do so. Theoretical techniques of Lattice QCD, which is QCD defined on a discrete space-time lattice, have provided glimpses into where the QCD critical point may be, and how to search for it in the experimental data. A brief overview of the theoretical and experimental attempts is provided.