56380360
ISR Hadron Production in $e^+e^-$ Annihilations and Meson-Photon Transition Form Factors
We present several recent results from the BaBar collaboration in the areas of initial state radiation physics and transition form factors. An updated study of the processes e + e − ! K + K − � + � − and e + e − ! K + K − � 0 � 0 provides an improved understanding of the Y (2175) meson. A very precise study of the process e + e − !� + � − improves the precision on the calculated anomalous magnetic moment of the muon and provides by far the best ]
120017490
QCD studies of hadronic decays of Z0 bosons by SLD
Z0 bosons have been produced by collisions of longitudinally polarized electrons with unpolarized positrons at the SLAC Linear Collider and their decays have been recorded by the SLD experiment. We present preliminary QCD results based on the first 6000 such decays. We find good agreement between the inclusive properties of these data and the predictions of perturbative QCD plus fragmentation models. The strong coupling, αs, has been measured by three methods: jet rates yield αs(MZ)=0.119±0.002(stat.)±0.003(exp. syst.)±0.014(theor.); energy‐energy correlations yield αs(MZ)=0.121±0.002±0.004±0.0160.009; and the energy‐energy correlation asymmetry gives αs(MZ)=0.108±0.003±0.005±0.0080.003.
84154696
Results from PETRA on the Average Lifetime of B Hadrons
18652498
Hadron Physics at BaBar
The BABAR experiment at SLAC is designed to measure CP violation in the B meson system, however the very high statistics combined with the different e+ and e− beam energies, the detector design and the open trigger allow a wide variety of spectroscopic measurements. We are beginning to tap this potential via several production mechanisms. Here we present recent results from initial state radiation, hadronic jets, few body B and D hadron decays, and interactions in the detector material. We also summarize measurements relevant to Ds meson spectroscopy, pentaquarks and charmonium spectroscopy from multiple production mechanisms.
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A Study of Correlations Between Identified Charged Hadrons in Hadronic Z0 Decays
We present a preliminary study of correlations in rapidity between pairs of identified charged pions, kaons and protons in the SLD data. Details of short-range charge correlations between all combinations of these hadron species are used to study the locality of quantum number conservation, and suggest local charge ordering along the entire hadronization chain. A strong long-range K{sup +}K{sup -} correlation is observed at high-momentum and weaker long-range {pi}{sup +}-{pi}{sup -}, {pi}{sup +}-K{sup -} and p-K{sup -} correlations are observed in light flavor events, providing new information on leading particle production in u, d and s jets. The long-range correlations observed in c{bar c} and b{bar b} events are markedly different and consistent with expectations based on known decay properties of the leading heavy hadrons. The SLC electron beam polarization is used to tag the quark hemisphere in each event, allowing the first study of rapidities signed relative to the quark (vs. antiquark) direction. Distributions of ordered, signed rapidity differences provide a new probes of the fragmentation process, including the first direct observation of baryon number ordering along the q {yields} {bar q} axis.
17701102
Recent Tests of QCD at SLD
We present selected results on strong interaction physics from the SLD experiment at the SLAC Linear Collider. We report on several new studies of 3- and 4-jet hadronic Z{sup 0} decays, in which jets are identified as quark, antiquark or gluon. The gluon energy spectrum is measured over the full kinematic range, providing an improved test of QCD and limits on anomalous bbg and bbg couplings. The parity violation in Z{sup 0} {yields} b{bar b}g decays is consistent with electroweak theory plus QCD. New tests of T- and CP-conservation at the bbg vertex are performed. An improved measurement of the rate of gluon splitting into b{bar b} pairs yields g{sub b{bar b}} = 0.00244 {+-} 0.00059(stat.) {+-} 0.00034(syst.). We also present a number of new results on jet fragmentation into identified hadrons. The B hadron energy spectrum is measured over the full kinematic range using a new, inclusive technique, allowing stringent tests of predictions for its shape and a precise measurement of 0 corresponds to the quark direction provides additional new insights into fragmentation, including the first direct observation of baryon number ordering along the q{bar q} axis.« less
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The concept of phenomenological light-front wave functions -- Regge improved diquark model predictions
We introduce a classification scheme for parton distribution models and we model generalized parton distributions (GPDs), their form factors, and parton distribution functions (PDFs), integrated and unintegrated ones, in terms of unintegrated double distributions that are obtained from the parton number conserved overlap of effective light-front wave functions. For a so-called "spherical" model we present general expressions for all twist-two related non-perturbative quantities in terms of one effective light-front wave function, including chiral-odd GPDs. We also discuss the Regge improvement of such quark models from the $s$-channel point of view and study the relations between zero-skewness GPDs and unintegrated PDFs on a more general ground. Finally, we provide a few phenomenological applications that emphasize the role of orbital angular momenta.
36454783
Casimir energy density in closed hyperbolic universes
The original Casimir effect results from the difference in the vacuum energies of the electromagnetic field, between that in a region of space with boundary conditions and that in the same region without boundary conditions. In this paper we develop the theory of a similar situation, involving a scalar field in spacetimes with closed spatial sections of negative curvature.
18978265
Orbits in a Neighboring Dwarf Galaxy According to MOND
We study the orbits in the MOND theory within a dwarf galaxy of mass Md ∼ 108M⊙ at a distance of ∼ 100kpc from a neighboring galaxy of mass Mg = 5 × 1011M⊙, such as ours. It is assumed that a second mass m << Md is gravitationally bound to Md by a previously calculated potential for the MOND theory. This potential is obtained for a free falling mass Md in a constant external gravitational acceleration field ∇φg. The numerical technique of surfaces of section is used to study the stability of the phase-space orbits in the dwarf galaxy. Equatorial orbits with sufficiently small eccentricities e < 0.65 are found to be stable with respect to small changes in the initial conditions. (The equatorial plane is perpendicular to the direction of ∇φg, which is along the line joining Md and Mg.) For decreasing values of the conserved component of the angular momentum, in the direction of ∇φg, equatorial stability is lost. Subject headings: cosmology — gravitation — galaxies: dwarf.
13486962
Wave functions, evolution equations and evolution kernels from light ray operators of QCD
The widely used nonperturbative wave functions and distribution functions of QCD are determined as matrix elements of light-ray operators. These operators appear as large momentum limit of non-local hadron operators or as summed up local operators in light-cone expansions. Nonforward one-particle matrix elements of such operators lead to new distribution amplitudes describing both hadrons simultaneously. These distribution functions depend besides other variables on two scaling variables. They are applied for the description of exclusive virtual Compton scattering in the Bjorken region near forward direction and the two meson production process. The evolution equations for these distribution amplitudes are derived on the basis of the renormalization group equation of the considered operators. This includes that also the evolution kernels follow from the anomalous dimensions of these operators. Relations between different evolution kernels (especially the Altarelli-Parisi and the Brodsky-Lepage kernels) are derived and explicitly checked for the existing two-loop calculations of QCD. Technical basis of these results are support and analytically properties of the anomalous dimensions of light-ray operators obtained with the help of the α-representation of Green's functions.
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Casimir energy in multiply connected static hyperbolic universes
We generalize a previously obtained result for the case of a few other static hyperbolic universes with manifolds of nontrivial topology as spatial sections.