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Precision measurement of the Omega - magnetic moment.
Using a sample of 2.35{times}10{sup 5} polarized {Omega}{sup {minus}}{r_arrow}{Lambda}{ital K}{sup {minus}} decays, we have measured the {Omega}{sup {minus}} magnetic moment to be {mu}{sub {Omega}{sup {minus}}}=({minus}2.024{plus_minus}0.056){mu}{sub {ital N}}.
120960559
New limit on magnetic monopole flux
The underground Soudan-1 nucleon decay experiment can measure the velocities of slowly moving particles if they can be detected by ionization at a level 0.5 times that of a relativistic muon. Magnetic monopoles predicted by grand unified theories should satisfy this condition if their velocities are greater than 10/sup -3/c. During a live time of 0.41 yr, no candidate has been observed, implying a 90%- confidence-level limit on the flux of such objects of <4.1 x 10/sup -13/ cm/sup -2/ sr/sup -1/ s/sup -1/ for velocities between 10/sup -3/c and 10/sup -2/c.
120389291
Study of quark flow in exclusive reactions at 90 degrees in the center of mass (AGS E838)
We report a study of quark flow in 20 exclusive reactions measured at Brookhaven National Laboratory’s AGS with a beam momentum of 5.9 GeV/c at 90° in the center of mass. This experiment confirms the strong quark flow reaction mechanism dependence of two‐body hadron scattering at large angles seen at 9.9 GeV/c. Large differences in cross sections for different reactions are consistent with the dominance of quark interchange in these 90° reactions, and indicate that pure gluon exchange and quark/antiquark annihilation diagrams are less important.
45078944
Measurements of production polarization and decay asymmetry for Xi - hyperons.
125996066
A MULTIKILOTON DETECTOR TO CONDUCT A SENSITIVE SEARCH FOR NUCLEON DECAY
45066347
HARD QUARK-QUARK SCATTERING WITH EXCLUSIVE REACTIONS*
We have begun a program designed to study hard quark-quark scattering with exclusive reactions, focusing on quasi-elastic two-body reactions with all possible quark flavor exchanges. Examples are ..pi../sup -/p ..-->.. ..pi../sup -/p, rho/sup -/p, ..pi../sup +/..delta../sup -/, K/sup +/..sigma../sup -/, or K..lambda... Of the two-body exclusives, only elastic scattering had been measured at such large t previous to our experiment. By comparing the relative importance of different final states, the energy dependence of the production ratios of these states, the prominence of resonances such as rho/sup -/ over background in this region, and measuring polarizations where accessible, we have collected a large body of data on hard scattering in a completely new domain. Previously, essential all short distance QCD tests have been for inclusive processes. We have taken data with both negative and positive incident beam at 10 GeV/c on a hydrogen target and will present the first results, for ..pi../sup -/p ..-->.. ..pi../sup -/p and rho/sup -/p at THETA/sub cm/ = 90/sup 0/, -t = 9 GeV/sup 2//c/sup 2/. The apparatus consists of a magnetic spectrometer, with Cerenkov particle identification, which selects stable charged particles (protons in this case) at high momentum near 90/sup 0/ in the center-of-mass. Amore » large aperture array of PWCs observes the recoil particle or charged decay products. Cross sections are extremely low, approximately a 1 nb/(GeV/c)/sup 2/ for elastic scattering. We will report on a sample of more than 1000 ..pi../sup -/p elastic events, and on rho/sup -/p, where the rho/sup -/ decay distribution was observed. We find a surprisingly large rho/sup -/p cross section in this large momentum transfer region, with rho/sup -/p about half the elastic cross section, and a striking spin alignment of the rho/sup -/.« less
37933794
From spectroscopy to the strong coupling constant with heavy Wilson quarks.
In this work we present lattice calculations of the masses of {ital P}-wave mesons using Monte Carlo simulations. Our valence fermions are defined by the Wilson action. Our gauge fields are generated with both dynamical staggered fermions at a lattice coupling {beta}{equivalent_to}6/{ital g}{sup 2}=5.6 for sea quark masses of {ital am}{sub {ital q}}=0.010 and 0.025 and in the quenched approximation at {beta}=6.0. We present results for charm and charmonium spectroscopy and use them to compute the strong coupling constant {alpha}{sub {ital s}}. We compare our results to those of other recent lattice calculations and experiments.
44999335
Glueballs and topology in lattice QCD with two light flavors.
We obtain estimates of the lightest glueball masses, the string tension, and the topological susceptibility in an exploratory study of QCD with two light flavors of quarks. Our calculations are performed at {beta}=5.6 with staggered quark masses {ital m}{sub {ital q}}=0.010 and 0.025 and on lattices ranging from 12{sup 4} to 16{sup 4}. Our estimates suggest that, just as in the pure gauge theory, the 0{sup ++} is the lightest glueball with the 2{sup ++} about 50% heavier. Our {ital m}{sub {ital q}}=0.01 results predict a 0{sup ++} glueball mass of about 1.6 times the {rho} mass and the square root of the string tension of about 0.48 times the {rho} mass, which is surprisingly close to the usual phenomenologically motivated estimates of around 0.55. Our value of the topological susceptibility at {ital m}{sub {ital q}}=0.01 is consistent with the prediction, to {ital O}({ital m}{sub {ital q}}) of the standard anomalous Ward identity. However, the variation of this susceptibility between {ital m}{sub {ital q}}=0.01 and {ital m}{sub {ital q}}=0.025 is weaker than the linear dependence one expects at small {ital m}{sub {ital q}} in the broken-chiral-symmetry phase of QCD.
39568649
Evolution of the density parameter in multidimensional cosmology.
Inflation as a dynamical effect of extra dimensions is discussed from the viewpoint of the evolution of the parameters Ω and q in the physical space. By reducing the dynamics of the models FLRW (k=±1)×T D (T D =S 1 ×... ×S 1 ) and FLRW (k=0)×S D , where FLRW denotes Friedmann, Lemaitre, Robertson, and Walker, to two dimensions it is shown that inflation need not imply Ω≃ 1 for the present time, i.e., that it does not solve the flatness problem. The energy-momentum tensor of the form T υ μ =(ρ,mρ,mρ,mρ,nρ,..., nρ) is assumed
20204600
Dynamics of multidimensional generalization of Bianchi type-IX cosmological models.
We investigate the dynamics of an 11-dimensional homogeneous cosmological model. We assume that the t = const hypersurfaces are products of a 3-dimensional Bianchi type-IX space and a 7-dimensional torus. Most results of our investigation hold when the 7-dimensional torus is replaced by an m-dimensional torus T/sup m/. We show that for a large class of vacuum solutions the physical space expands while the microspace contracts providing a natural mechanism of dimensional reduction. Matter satisfying a simple barotropic equation of state always breaks the process of dynamical dimensional reduction. With special attention we study the behavior of our model close to the initial singularity. In contrast with the 4-dimensional Bianchi type-IX cosmological model the Kasner solution always describes an approach to the initial singularity. We study the transition from the Kasner regime to the oscillatory regime. We show that matter does not significantly change this property. We have found some exact solutions; they describe isotropic physical space, and axially symmetric physical space. We also investigate high-temperature quantum effects and their effects on the dynamics of our model. We show that the high-temperature quantum corrections do not depend on the geometrical properties of space, provided it is compact. The high-temperature quantummore » corrections can be described by a macroscopic equation of state satisfied by radiation.« less
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Observation of the Meissner effect in a lattice Higgs model.
The lattice-regularized U(1) Higgs model in an external electromagnetic field is studied by Monte Carlo techniques. In the Coulomb phase magnetic flux can flow through uniformly. The Higgs phase splits into a region where magnetic flux can penetrate only in the form of vortices and a region where the magnetic flux is completely expelled, the relativistic analog of the Meissner effect in superconductivity. We present evidence for symmetry restoration in strong external fields.