119276990
Heavy quarkonium production through the semi-exclusive $e^+e^-$ annihilation channels round the $Z^0$ peak
Within the framework of the non-relativistic QCD, we present a detailed discussion on the heavy quarkonium production at the leading order in $\alpha_s$ at a $e^+ e^-$ collider with the collision energy around the $Z^0$ peak. Quarkonia are produced through the semi-exclusive channels $e^{+}e^{-} \rightarrow |H_{Q\bar{Q}}\rangle +X$ with $X=Q\bar{Q}$ or $gg$, where $Q$ indicates a heavy quark (respectively $b$ or $c$). It is noted that in addition to the color-singlet 1S-level quarkonium states, the 2S and 1P color-singlet states and the color-octet $|(Q\bar{Q})[1^3S_1^{({\bf 8})}]g\rangle$ state also provide sizable contributions. The heavy quarkonium transverse momentum and rapidity distributions for the $e^+ e^-$ collision energy $E_{cm}=m_Z$ are presented. For both charmonium and bottomonium production via the $Z^0$ propagator, there is approximate "spin degeneracy" between the spin-triplet and spin-singlet quarkonium states. Uncertainties for the total cross sections are estimated by taking $m_c=1.50\pm0.15$ GeV and $m_b=4.90\pm0.15$ GeV. Around $E_{cm}=m_{Z}$, due to the $Z^0$-boson resonance effect, total cross sections for the channels via the $Z^0$-propagator become much larger than the channels via the virtual photon propagator. We conclude that, in addition to the $B$ factories as BaBar and Belle and the hadronic colliders as Tevatron and LHC, such a super $Z$-factory will present an excellent platform for studying the heavy quarkonium properties.
118560703
Application of the principle of maximum conformality to the top-quark forward-backward asymmetry at the Tevatron
¯p¯ FB at the Tevatron will be increased by 42% in comparison to the previous estimates obtained by using conventional scale setting; i.e. we obtain A t ¯PMC FB ≃ 12.5% and A p¯ p,PMC FB ≃ 8.28%. Moreover, we obtain A t ¯ t,PMC FB (Mt¯ > 450 GeV) ≃ 35.0%. These predictions have a 1�-deviation from the present CDF and D0 measurements; the large discrepancies of the top quark forward-backward asymmetry between the Standard Model estimate and the CDF and D0 data are thus greatly reduced.
119260697
Photoproduction of doubly heavy baryon at the ILC
A bstractIn the present paper, we make a detailed study on the doubly heavy baryon photoproduction in the future e+e− International Linear Collider (ILC). The baryons Ξcc, Ξbc, and Ξbb are produced via the channel γγ→ΞQQ′+Q¯′+Q¯$$ \gamma \gamma \to {\Xi}_{QQ\prime }+\overline{Q}^{\prime }+\overline{Q} $$, where Q and Q′ stand for heavy c or b quark, respectively. As for the ΞQQ′-baryon production, it shall first generate a (QQ′)[n]-diquark and then form the final baryon via fragmentation, where [n] stands for the color- and spin- configurations for the (QQ′)-diquark states. According to the non-relativistic QCD theory, four diquark configurations shall provide sizable contributions to the baryon production, e.g., [n] equals 3S13¯,1S06,3S16,or1S03¯$$ {\left[{}^3{S}_1\right]}_{\overline{3}},\;{\left[{}^1{S}_0\right]}_6,\;{\left[{}^3{S}_1\right]}_6,\;\mathrm{or}\kern0.37em {\left[{}^1{S}_0\right]}_{\overline{3}} $$, respectively. We adopt the improved helicity amplitude approach for the hard scattering amplitude to improve the calculation efficiency. Total and differential cross sections of those channels, as well as the theoretical uncertainties, are presented. We show that sizable amounts of baryon events can be generated at the ILC, i.e., about 2.0 × 106 Ξcc, 2.2 × 105 Ξbc, as well as 3.0 × 103 Ξbb events are to be generated in one operation year for S=500$$ \sqrt{S}=500 $$ GeV and ℒ ≃ 1036 cm−2s−1.
28851116
GENXICC2.1: An improved version of GENXICC for hadronic production of doubly heavy baryons
We present an improved version of GENXICC, which is a generator for hadronic production of the doubly heavy baryons $\Xi_{cc}$, $\Xi_{bc}$ and $\Xi_{bb}$ and has been raised by C.H. Chang, J.X. Wang and X.G. Wu [Comput. Phys. Commun. 177 (2007) 467; Comput. Phys. Commun. 181 (2010) 1144]. In comparison with the previous GENXICC versions, we update the program in order to generate the unweighted baryon events more effectively under various simulation environments, whose distributions are now generated according to the probability proportional to the integrand. One Les Houches Event (LHE) common block has been added to produce a standard LHE data file that contains useful information of the doubly heavy baryon and its accompanying partons. Such LHE data can be conveniently imported into PYTHIA to do further hadronization and decay simulation, especially, the color-flow problem can be solved with PYTHIA8.0.
119268284
Uncertainties in estimating the indirect production of Bc and its excited states via top quark decays at CERN LHC
Abstract Main theoretical uncertainties in estimating the indirect production of ( b c ¯ ) -quarkonium ( B c − meson and its excited states) via top quark decays, t → ( b c ¯ ) + c + W + , are studied within the non-relativistic QCD framework. It is found that the dimensionless reduced decay width for a particular ( b c ¯ ) -quarkonium state, Γ ¯ n = Γ n / Γ t → W + + b , is very sensitive to the c -quark mass, while the uncertainties from the b -quark and t -quark masses are small, where n stands for the eight ( b c ¯ ) -quarkonium states up to O ( v 4 ) : | ( b c ¯ ) ( S 0 1 ) 1 〉 , | ( b c ¯ ) ( S 1 3 ) 1 〉 , | ( b c ¯ ) ( P 1 1 ) 1 〉 , | ( b c ¯ ) ( P J 3 ) 1 〉 (with J = ( 1 , 2 , 3 ) ), | ( b c ¯ ) ( S 0 1 ) 8 g 〉 and | ( b c ¯ ) ( S 1 3 ) 8 g 〉 respectively. About 10 8 t t ¯ -pairs shall be produced per year at CERN LHC, if adopting the assumption that all the higher Fock states decay to the ground state with 100% probability, then we shall have ( 1.038 −0.782 +1.353 ) × 10 5 B c − events per year. So the indirect production provides another important way to study the properties of B c − meson in comparison to that of the direct hadronic production at CERN LHC.
5502533
A trick to improve the efficiency of generating unweighted Bc events from BCVEGPY
In the present paper, we provide an addendum to improve the efficiency of generating unweighted events within PYTHIA environment for the generator BCVEGPY2.1 [C.H. Chang, J.X. Wang, X.G. Wu, Comput. Phys. Commun. 174 (2006) 241]. This trick is helpful for experimental simulation. Moreover, the BCVEGPY output has also been improved, i.e. one Les Houches Event common block has been added so as to generate a standard Les Houches Event file that contains the information of the generated Bc meson and the accompanying partons, which can be more conveniently used for further simulation.
16666515
Disk Evaporation-Fed Corona: Structure and Evaporation Features with Magnetic Field
The disk-corona evaporation model naturally accounts for many observational phenomena in black hole X-ray binaries, such as the truncation of an accretion disk and the spectral state transitions. On the other hand, magnetic fields are known to play an important role in transporting angular momentum and producing viscosity in accretion flows. In this work, we explicitly take the magnetic field in the accretion disk corona into consideration and numerically calculate the coronal structure on the basis of our two-temperature evaporation code. We show that the magnetic field influences the coronal structure through its contribution to the pressure, energy, and radiative cooling in the corona and by decreasing the vertical heat conduction. We find that the maximum evaporation rate stays more or less constant (similar to 3% of the Eddington rate) when the strength of the magnetic field changes, but that the radius corresponding to the maximum evaporation rate decreases with increasing magnetic field. This suggests that spectral state transitions always occur at a few percent of the Eddington accretion rate, while the inner edge of the thin disk can be at similar to 100RS or even less in the hard state before the transition to the soft state. These results alleviate the problem of previous evaporation models' predicting too large a truncation radius and are in better agreement with the observational results for several black hole X-ray binaries, although discrepancies remain.
118830580
Dynamics of holographic vacuum energy in the DGP model
We consider the evolution of the vacuum energy in the Dvali-Gabadadze-Porrati (DGP) model according to the holographic principle under the assumption that the relation linking the IR and UV cutoffs still holds in this scenario. The model is studied when the IR cutoff is chosen to be the Hubble scale H(-1), the particle horizon R(ph), and the future event horizon R(eh), respectively. The two branches of the DGP model are also taken into account. Through numerical analysis, we find that in the cases of H(-1) in the (+) branch and R(eh) in both branches, the vacuum energy can play the role of dark energy. Moreover, when considering the combination of the vacuum energy and the 5D gravity effect in both branches, the equation of state of the effective dark energy may cross -1, which may lead to the big rip singularity. Besides, we constrain the model with the Type Ia supernovae and baryon oscillation data and find that our model is consistent with current data within 1 sigma, and that the observations prefer either a pure holographic dark energy or a pure DGP model.
14655295
Modeling the Hard States of XTE J1550–564 during Its 2000 Outburst
We study the hard states of the black hole binary XTE J1550-564 during its 2000 outburst. In order to explain those states at their highest luminosities, L similar to 10% of the Eddington luminosity, L-E, we propose a specific hot accretion flow model. We point out that the highest values of the hard-state L are substantially above the L that an advection-dominated accretion flow can produce, similar to 0.4 alpha L-2(E), which is only similar to 3%-4% of L-E even for alpha as high as 0.3. On the other hand, we successfully explain the hard states with L similar to 0.04-0.10 using the luminous hot accretion flow (LHAF) model. As 0.10L(E) is also roughly the highest luminosity an LHAF can produce, such agreement between the predicted and observed highest luminosities itself provides strong support for this model. We then study multiwaveband spectral variability during the 2000 outburst. In addition to the primary maxima in the optical light curves, secondary maxima were detected after the transition from the very high state to the hard state. We show that the secondary maxima are well modeled as synchrotron emission from a jet formed during the state transition. We argue that the absence of a corresponding secondary peak in the X-ray light curve indicates that the X-ray jet emission, regardless of its radiative process, synchrotron or Comptonization, is not important in the hard state as compared with the emission from the accretion flow.
118599552
Some mass relations for mesons and baryons in Regge phenomenology
In the quasilinear Regge trajectory ansatz, some useful linear mass inequalities, quadratic mass inequalities, and quadratic mass equalities are derived for mesons and baryons. Based on these relations, mass ranges of some mesons and baryons are given. The masses of bc and ss belonging to the pseudoscalar, vector, and tensor meson multiplets are also extracted. The J{sup P} of the baryon {xi}{sub cc}{sup +}(3520) is assigned to be (1/2){sup +}. The parameters of the (1/2){sup +} and (3/2){sup +} SU(4) baryon trajectories are extracted and the masses of the orbital excited baryons lying on the (1/2){sup +} and (3/2){sup +} trajectories are estimated. The J{sup P} assignments of baryons {xi}{sub c}(2980), {xi}{sub c}(3055), {xi}{sub c}(3077), and {xi}{sub c}(3123) are discussed. The predictions are in reasonable agreement with the existing experimental data and those suggested in many other different approaches. The mass relations and the predictions may be useful for the discovery of the unobserved meson and baryon states and the J{sup P} assignment of these states.
16911559
Harmonic QPOs and Thick Accretion Disk Oscillations in BL Lac Object AO 0235 + 164
Periodic outbursts are observed in many AGNs and usually explained with a supermassive black hole binary (SMBHB) scenario. However, multiple periods are observed in some AGNs and cannot be explained with it. Here we analyze the periodicity of the radio light curves of AO 0235+164 at multi-frequencies and report the discovery of six QPOs in integer ratio 1:2:3:4:5:6 of QPO frequencies, of which the second with period P 2 = (5.46 ± 0.47) yr is the strongest. We fit the radio light curves and show that the initial phases of six QPOs have zero or π differences relative to each other. We suggest a harmonic relationship of QPOs. The centroid frequency, relative strength, harmonic relationship and relative initial phases of QPOs are independent of radio frequency. The harmonic QPOs are likely due to the quasi-periodic injection of plasma from an oscillating accretion disk into the jet. We estimate the supermassive black hole mass M BH ≃ (4.72 ± 2.04) × 10 8 M ⊙ and the accretion rate ˙ m ≃ 0.007. With the knowledge of accretion disk, it implies that the inner region of accretion disk of AO 0235+164 is a radiatively inefficient accretion flow. The oscillation accretion is due to the p-mode oscillation of the thick disk probably excited by a SMBHB. The theoretical predications of fundamental oscillation frequency and the harmonics are well consistent with the observations. Harmonic QPOs would be absent when the thick disk becomes geometrically thin due to the increase of accretion rate. We discuss the observations of AO 0235+164 basing on the SMBHB-thick disk oscillation scenario. – 2 –