Locality of quark-hadron duality and deviations from quark counting rules above the resonance region

We show how deviations from the dimensional scaling laws for exclusive processes may be related to a breakdown in the locality of quark-hadron duality. The essential principles are illustrated in a pedagogic model of a composite system with two spinless charged constituents, for which a dual picture for the low-energy resonance phenomena and high-energy scaling behavior can be established. We introduce the concept of "restricted locality" of quark-hadron duality and show how this results in deviations from the perturbative quantum chromodynamics quark counting rules above the resonance region. In particular, it can be a possible source for oscillations about the smooth quark counting rule, as seen, e.g., in the 90-degree differential cross sections for gammap-->pi(+)n.     

Gluon bremsstrahlung production of heavy particles in neutrino and antineutrino scattering

Weak charged current production of charmed quark pairs is studied in the framework of the QCD inspired parton model. The magnitude of the cross section strongly depends on the charmed quark pair production threshold, above which the gluons are assumed to decay into either charmed particle pairs of hidden charmonium states. The normalized distributions are rather insensitive to the choice of this threshold value and the angular distribution of J/gy particles will show significant azimuthal asymmetry about the current-target axis. The sign of the asymmetry cannot be mimicked by the parton primordial transverse momentum effects and thus the process can serve a clean test of the gluon bremsstrahlung mechanism.     

Dibaryon Signals in NN Scattering Data and Further Measurement at COSY,LEPS and CSR

The NΔ and ΔΔ dibaryon resonances are studied by calculating the NN scattering phase shifts with explicitly coupling these dibaryon channels in a multi-channel coupling calculation with two quark models.These quark models,the chiral quark model and quark delocalization color screening model,describe the NN S-,D-wave phase shifts below the π production threshold quantitatively well.Both quark models predict the ~1D_2 resonance discovered in NN partial wave phase shift analysis and the J=1 or 3 isoscalar resonance recently reported by CELSIUS-WASA Collaboration are NΔ~5S_2 and ΔΔ~7S_3 resonance,respectively.Further measurements at COSY,LEPS and Lanzhou Cooling Storage Ring(CSR) to check the ΔΔ resonance are discussed.     

Experimental properties of gluon and quark jets from a point source

Gluon jets are identified in hadronic Z decays as all the particles in a hemisphere opposite to a hemisphere containing two tagged quark jets. Gluon jets defined in this manner are equivalent to gluon jets produced from a color singlet point source and thus correspond to the definition employed for most theoretical calculations. In a separate stage of the analysis, we select quark jets in a manner to correspond to calculations, as the particles in hemispheres of flavor tagged light quark (uds) events. We present the distributions of rapidity, scaled energy, the logarithm of the momentum, and transverse momentum with respect to the jet axes, for charged particles in these gluon and quark jets. We also examine the charged particle multiplicity distributions of the jets in restricted intervals of rapidity. For soft particles at large , we observe the charged particle multiplicity ratio of gluon to quark jets to be , in agreement with the prediction that this ratio should approximately equal the ratio of QCD color factors, . The intervals used to define soft particles and large for this result, GeV/ and GeV/, are motivated by the predictions of the Herwig Monte Carlo multihadronic event generator. Additionally, our gluon jet data allow a sensitive test of the phenomenon of non-leading QCD terms known as color reconnection. We test the model of color reconnection implemented in the Ariadne Monte Carlo multihadronic event generator and find it to be disfavored by our data. Received: 24 February 1999 / Published online: 8 September 1999     

Heavy quark effects on the parameters of quantum chromodynamics defined by minimal subtraction

We report a complete two-loop calculation of the relations for matching the parameters of MS renormalized QCD below and above a certain heavy quark threshold and we investigate the implications of these relations for the QCD scale Λ and the scale-invariant quark masses.     

Strange hadrons – strangeness in strongly interacting particles Strangeness production with KAOS at MAMI

In 2007 the Mainz Microtron MAMI has been upgraded to 1.5 GeV electron beam energy, crossing the energy threshold for open strangeness production. The strangeness quantum number, as carried by the strange quark, provides valuable information on the contribution of individual quark flavours to hadronic processes. Theoretically, the strange quark with its rest energy of order 150 MeV is particularly interesting because it can neither be treated as a massless nor as a heavy quark. Experimentally, an instrument of central importance for the charged kaon electro-production off the proton or light nuclei at MAMI is the magnetic spectrometer Kaos that was installed recently and is now routinely operated by the A1 collaboration.     

Decoupling of heavy quarks in mass-independent momentum subtraction schemes

Heavy quark decoupling in Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) defined by mass-independent momentum subtraction (MOM) is investigated. The coefficients of the functions which allow for twoloop matching of the QCD parameters below and above a heavy quark threshold are calculated for some MOM schemes. The resulting numerical relations between the QCD scales and between the renormalization group invariant light-quark mass parameters off andf?1 flavour QCD are given.     

Yukawa corrections to the charged Higgs boson production in association with the top quark at hadron colliders

We calculate the Yukawa corrections of order to charged Higgs boson production in association with a top quark at the Tevatron and the LHC. The corrections are not very sensitive to the mass of the charged Higgs boson and can exceed for low values of , where the contribution of the top quark is large, and high values of where the contribution of the bottom quark becomes large. These Yukawa corrections could be significant for charged Higgs boson searches based on this production process, particularly at the LHC where the cross section is relatively large. Received: 12 October 1999 / Revised version: 3 December 1999 / Published online: 6 April 2000     

The primary stages of the charge carrier photogeneration in C60 films studied by the 100-fs laser pulse pump-probe method

The primary stages of photoinduced processes are studied in thin C₆₀ films by the femtosecond laser pump-probe method. The films were excited by 100-fs laser pulses with photon energies above (wavelengths 345 and 367 nm) and below (645 nm) the mobility threshold, the fraction of excited molecules being no more than several percent. Upon probing in the spectral range from 400 to 1100 nm, several regions with substantially different decay kinetics were observed in the difference spectrum, which is caused by the simultaneous presence of several relaxing components. The appearance of the 465-and 500-nm bleaching bands in the difference spectrum upon excitation by photons with energies both above and below the mobility threshold, which are typical for electroabsorption spectra, suggests that charge carriers are produced in both these cases. The observed dependence of relaxation on the oxygen amount in the sample volume suggests that during excitation both charged (electrons and holes) and neutral (excited molecules) components are produced. The fraction of charged components is greater upon excitation into the fundamental band. The appearance of the 500-nm absorption band delayed by 10^?13–10^?14 s, the delay being increased in the presence of oxygen, was attributed to the formation of excited anions due to the capture of electrons by C₆₀ molecules. It is concluded that upon excitation of the films by photons with the energy below the mobility threshold, charge carriers are produced due to two-photon absorption rather than due to singlet-singlet annihilation. When the films are excited by photons above the mobility threshold, the primary charge carriers are produced by direct optical excitation.     

COMPOSITE QUARK MASS HIERARCHY AND FCNC SUPPRESSION

The observed quark mass hierarchy and the realistic mixing matrix of quark charged currents may be explained in a framework of a three-fermion composite model, if the quark masses are generated by the condensaties of exotic colored fermions and in the dynamical mechanism, we incorporate the following conjecture that the four-preon hypercolor condensates, which are used to realize the spontaneous breaking of the family gauge group su^F(2) in the model, may correspond to two different mass scales. We also show that all the FCNC including the |ΔS|=2 effective coupling in the model can be suppressed down to below the experimental limit.     

Pion production by fragmentation of weak currents in Weinberg theory

The Feynman quark parton model is used to study inclusive single-pion production by the fragmentation of the neutral and charged weak currents of Weinberg theory. The structure functions for the neutral current-induced reactions are related to those for the electromagnetic and charged weak current processes. Analogues of inclusive deep-inelastic sum rules are derived. The ratios of neutral current to charged current cross sections for semi-inclusive pion production are studied. In the approximation of neglect of “core” partons, these ratios are given in terms of average pion multiplicities in the charged current-induced reaction. We finally specialise to the quark parton distributions of McElhaney and Tuan to calculate these ratios as functions of the Weinberg angle.     

Multiplicity distribution in proton-proton and proton-antiproton collisions at high energies

Multiplicity distributions of secondary hadrons produced in p $ \bar p $ \bar p and collisions are very different. There are three types of inelastic processes in p $ \bar p $ \bar p scattering. The first one is the production of a shower of secondary hadrons in gluon string decay. The second one is the shower produced from the decay of two quark strings, and the third one is the shower produced from the decay of three quark strings. At the same time, there are just two types of inelastic processes for pp scattering: the shower from the gluon string and the shower from two quark strings. The multiplicity distribution and the average multiplicity of charged hadrons for an energy of 14 TeV are predicted.     

Diquark condensate and quark interaction with an instanton liquid

The interaction of light quarks with an instanton liquid is considered at nonzero density of quark/baryon matter in a phase where the diquark condensate is nonzero. It is shown that the inclusion of the relevant perturbation of the instanton liquid leads to an increase in the quark chemical potential μ_c. This in turn induces a considerable growth of the threshold quark-matter density at which one expects the emergence of color superconductivity.     

Dynamic regime of conduction in a 1D system with a single impurity

A new regime of electron transport through an impurity in 1D conductors, which resembles the Josephson effect in its manifestations, is predicted. Passage of current through the impurity under voltages above the threshold value is accompanied with generation of ac current oscillations. The temperature below which the effect can be observed, the threshold voltage, and the frequency range are determined by the impurity potential and the strength of electron-electron interaction. The generation line width and the current-voltage characteristics are determined.     

Quark Loop Effects on Dressed Gluon Propagator in Framework of Global Color Symmetry Model

Based on the global color symmetry model (GCM), a method for obtaining the quark loop effects on the dressed gluon propagator in GCM is developed. In the chiral limit, it is found that the dressed gluon propagator containing the quark loop effects in the Nambu-Goldstone and Wigner phases are quite different. In solving the quark self-energy functions in the two different phases and subsequent study of bag constant one should use the above dressed gluon propagator as input. The above approach for obtaining the current quark mass effects on the dressed gluon propagator is quite general and can also be used to calculate the chemical potential dependence of the dressed gluon propagator.     

SU (3) CHARGED AND HY PERCHARGED COHEREMT STATE AND THE COLOR QUANTUM NUMBER

We exend the coherent state which possesses definite Abel charge to the state possessing definite non-Abel charge, and constrpct SU(3) charged and hypercharged coherent states for both boson and fermion. In this way, the fractionally charged and hypercharged quark states can be obtained naturally. Moreover, this formulation also shows that in order to obtain integrally charged and hypercharged hadroh coherent state, one must introduce color quantum number and discuss the SU (6)⊗SU(3) case.     

Spin Correlations in Top Quark Pair Production Near Threshold at the e+e- Linear Collider

We investigate the spin correlations in top quark pair production near the threshold at the e e- linear collider. Comparing with the results above the threshold region, we find that near the threshold region the off-diagonal basis, the optimized decomposition of the top quark spins above the threshold region, does not exist, and the beamline basis is the optimal basis, in which there are the dominant spin components: the up-down (UD) component for e-Le scattering and the down-up (DU) component for e-Re scattering can make up more than 50% of the total cross section,respectively.     

Scalar and Pseudo-Scalar Form Factors in Electro- and Weak-Production of Pion Near Threshold

We investigated pion production near threshold by the weak current in terms of multipole amplitudes. By exploiting the chiral Ward identity based on the QCD Lagrangian, we derived relevant multipole amplitudes in closed forms and presented their numerical results. In the amplitudes, scalar and pseudo scalar (PS) form factors, which represent the scalar and the PS quark density distributions, manifest by themselves. We applied these amplitudes to the cross sections for the weak- and electro-production near threshold. Both pion and PS form factor contributions are shown to account for the t-channel contribution in the charged pion electro-production near threshold. The asymmetry on the pion production by the neutrino and anti-neutrino is also discussed with their longitudinal and transverse cross sections.     

Time-correlated soliton tunneling in charge and spin density waves

We consider a model in which an electric field induces quantum nucleation of kink-antikink pairs in a pinned charge or spin density wave. Pair nucleation events, prevented by Coulomb blockade below a pair creation threshold, become correlated in time above threshold. The model provides a natural explanation for the observed (i) small density wave polarization below threshold in NbSe (3), (ii) narrow band noise, (iii) coherent oscillations, and (iv) mode-locking at high drift frequencies.     

The rapidity distribution of the cascade inside deuteron in πd high energy collisions

The problem of the existence of internuclear cascade and its characteristics are analysed in the π^? d experiment at 205 GeV/c. Two versions of the additive quark model are used to obtain the mean multiplicity and the rapidity distribution of charged particles produced through cascading. It is shown that the cascading effect does exist. The particles produced through this effect have the rapidity distribution very similar as in elementary low energy hadron-nucleon interactions. Both the rapidity distribution and the mean multiplicity do not depend on the version of the additive quark model which was used to obtain them.