119438443
Radiative decays of bottomonia into charmonia and light mesons
In the framework of nonrelativistic QCD, we study the radiative decays of bottomonia into charmonia, including $\Upsilon\to \chi_{cJ}\gamma$, $\Upsilon\to \eta_c\gamma$, $\eta_b\to J/\psi\gamma$, and $\chi_{bJ}\to J/\psi\gamma$. We give predictions for their branching ratios with numerical calculations. E.g., we predict the branching ratio for $\eta_b\to J/\psi\gamma$ is about $1\times 10^{-7}$. As a phenomenological model study, we further extend our calculation to the radiative decays of bottomonia into light mesons by assuming the $f_2(1270)$, $f_2'(1525)$ and other light mesons to be described by nonrelativistic $q\bar q ~(q=u,d,s)$ bound states with constituent quark masses. The calculated branching ratios for $\Upsilon\to f_2(1270)\gamma$ and $\Upsilon\to f_2'(1525)\gamma$ are roughly consistent with the CLEO data. Comparisons with radiative decays of charmonium into light mesons such as $J/\psi\to f_2(1270)\gamma$ are also given. In all calculations the QED contributions are taken into account and found to be significant in some processes.
117409239
$J / \psi$ electromagnetic production associated with light hadrons at $B$ factories
The electromagnetic productions of $J \psi$ associated with light hadrons(LH) and leptonic pairs($\mu^+\mu^-$, $\tau^+\tau^-$) at $B$ factories are studied. We find that the direct electromagnetic production cross sections of $J / \psi$($\psi(2S)$) associated with light hadrons is about $0.10(0.04)$ pb. The direct production cross sections of $J / \psi$($\psi(2S)$) associated with $\mu^+\mu^-$ is about $0.056(0.020)$ pb. If we include the contributions from $\psi(2S)$ decay, we can get the prompt cross section $\sigma[e^+e^- \to J/\psi +\mu^+\mu^-]=(0.068 \pm 0.002)$ pb, about $(16 \pm 5) %$ of the Belle data $\sigma[e^+e^- \to J/\psi +X_{non-c\bar c}]=(0.43\pm 0.09\pm 0.09)$ pb, meanwhile the $e^+e^- \to J/\psi +\tau^+\tau^-$ process only contributes $2 %$. The prompt cross section $\sigma[e^+e^- \to J/\psi +Light Hadrons]=(0.121 \pm 0.005)$ pb is about $(28 \pm 8) %$ of the Belle data.
119494793
$\Upsilon$ radiative decays to light quark jets and color octet mechanism
We study radiative decays of $\Upsilon$ to light quark jets in nonrelativistic QCD by taking both the color singlet and color octet $b\bar b$ operators into consideration. The cut for quark jet energy and cut for the angle between two quark jets are introduced. The sensitivity to the soft and collinear singularities in the loop integrals are greatly reduced by these cuts. With the jet energy cut of about 1 GeV, and the jet angle cut of about $36^\circ$, the branching ratio for $\Upsilon\to\gamma q\bar q$ is found to be $8.2\times 10^{-4}$ from color singlet contributions. The color octet contributions could be much larger than that of color singlet, depending on the estimate of the color octet matrix elements. This process may provide a new test for the color octet mechanism in nonrelativistic QCD.
122410092
Radiative Decays of Charmonium into Light Mesons
We apply perturbative QCD to the radiative decays of charmonia J/? and ?cJ into light mesons. We perform a complete numerical calculation for the quark?gluon loop diagrams involved in these processes. The calculated J/? decay branching ratios into p-wave mesons f2(1270) and f1(1285) fit the data well, while that of f0(980) (if treated as an s meson) is predicted to be 1.6?10?4, which implies that f0(1710) can not be the s or (u?+d)/21/2 meson. Decays of p-wave charmonia ?cJ??(?,)? (J = 0,1,2) are also studied, and the branching ratio of ?c1??? is predicted to be 1.4?10?5, which may be tested by CLEO-c collaboration and BESIII collaboration with future experiments.
119177672
Pair production of heavy quarkonium and B(*)c mesons at hadron colliders
We investigate the pair production of S-wave heavy quarkonium at the LHC in the color-singlet mechanism (CSM) and estimate the contribution from the gluon fragmentation process in the color-octet mechanism (COM) for comparison. With the matrix elements extracted previously in the leading-order calculations, the numerical results show that the production rates are quite large for the pair production processes at the LHC. The p t distribution of double J/ψ production in the CSM is dominant over that in the COM when p t is smaller than about 10 GeV. For the production of double Y, the contribution of the COM is always larger than that in the CSM. The large differences in the theoretical predictions between the CSM and COM for the p t distributions in the large p t region are useful in clarifying the effects of COM on the quarkonium production. We also investigate the pair production of S-wave B c and B* c mesons, and the measurement of these processes is useful to test the CSM and extract the long-distance matrix elements for the B c and B* c mesons. Aside from numerical calculations, analytical expressions for the production differential cross sections of all these processes are also given.
119280113
Upsilon decay to two-charm quark jets as a Probe of the Color Octet Mechanism
We calculate the decay rate of bottomonium to two charm-quark jets {upsilon}{yields}cc at the tree level and one-loop level including color-singlet and color-octet bb annihilations. We find that the short-distance coefficient of the color-octet piece is much larger than the color-singlet piece, and that the QCD correction will change the end point behavior of the charm quark jet. The color-singlet piece is strongly affected by the one-loop QCD correction. In contrast, the QCD correction to the color-octet piece is weak. Once the experiment can measure the branching ratio and energy distribution of the two charm-quark jets in the {upsilon} decay, the result can be used to test the color-octet mechanism or give a strong constraint on the color-octet matrix elements.
119262345
Perturbative unitarity constraints on general W' models and collider implications
We study perturbative unitarity constraints on general W 0 models by considering the high energy behavior of fermion scattering into gauge bosons. In most cases we survey, a Z 0 boson with a comparable mass must be present for the theory to be consistent, with xed couplings to the standard model gauge bosons and fermions. Applying these results to a class of W 0 models which explains the top quark forward{backward asymmetry observed at the Tevatron, we nd that a Z 0 must exist with a mass below 7 8 TeV and sizable coupling to the light quarks. While such a Z 0 is strongly constrained by existing experiments, we show that the LHC can explore the entire mass range up to the unitarity limit. We also show how it is possible, by raising the Z 0 mass consistent with unitarity, to explain the CDF Wjj excess in terms of a light W 0 , without generating an excess in Zjj events.
118631589
Sea quark flavor asymmetry of hadrons in statistical balance model
We suggested a Monte Carlo approach to simulate a kinetic equilibrium ensemble, and proved the equivalence to the linear equations method on equilibrium. With the convenience of the numerical method, we introduced variable splitting rates representing the details of the dynamics as model parameters which were not considered in previous works. The dependence on model parameters was studied, and it was found that the sea quark flavor asymmetry weakly depends on model parameters. It reflects the statistics principle, contributes the dominant part of the asymmetry, and the effect caused by details of the dynamics is small. We also applied the Monte Carlo approach of the statistical model to predict the theoretical sea quark asymmetries in kaons, octet baryons $\ensuremath{\Sigma}$, $\ensuremath{\Xi}$, and $\ensuremath{\Delta}$ baryons, even in exotic pentaquark states.
8213519
EFFECTS OF DENSE MATTER ON HADRON PRODUCTION IN HEAVY-ION COLLISIONS ‡
The intrinsic transverse momentum distribution of partons in the nucleon can be used to explain a large amount of high-pT hadron and photon production data in high-energy nucleon-nucleon collisions at energies √ s ≈ 20 to 1800 GeV. However, proton-nucleus experiments at energies ≈ 30 GeV show an extra enhancement (Cronin effect) in the yield of photons and mesons compared to a simple extrapolation of the proton-proton data. This enhancement is due to the effect of the dense hadronic matter encountered by the projectile proton in the nuclear environment. We discuss the origin and the properties of the nuclear enhancement.
119300440
Deconfined quantum criticality and generalized exclusion statistics in a non-Hermitian BCS model
We present a pairing Hamiltonian of the Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer form which exhibits two quantum critical lines of deconfined excitations. This conclusion is drawn using the exact Bethe ansatz equations of the model which admit a class of analytic solutions. The deconfined excitations obey generalized exclusion statistics. A notable property of the Hamiltonian is that it is non-Hermitian. Although it does not have a real spectrum for all choices of coupling parameters, we provide a rigorous argument to establish that real spectra occur on the critical lines. The critical lines are found to be invariant under a renormalization group map.
24721947
Development of the Central Task Processing Unit for space-borne Gamma-Ray Burst polarimeter, POLAR
POLAR, a joint European-Chinese experiment, is a novel compact space-borne Compton polarimeter conceived and optimized for detection of the prompt emission of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRB) and precise measurements of polarization in the hard X-ray energy range 50-500 keV. The complete instrument consists of two parts: internal one, placed inside spacelab and the detector itself, placed outside spacelab, called respectively IBOX and OBOX. The OBOX constitutes of 25 frontend electronic modules (FEE), high voltage and low voltage power supplies and the Central Task Processing Unit. The main functions of Central Task Processing Unit system are defined as follows: communication and transfer of data to IBOX, communication with all frontends, analysis of trigger signals and generation of global trigger signals, data acquisition, synchronizing of all frontends and control of power supplies. The functional requirements are fulfilled by three individual FPGA chips named respectively to their functions: Concentrator, Trigger and CPU. This article presents description of the Central Task Processing Unit hardware design and brief introduction to main components of the firmware developed for this device. Ongoing integration activities of the device with the complete POLAR instrument proved that all basic functions are working correctly. The qualification model of the instrument has been constructed and currently undergoes verification and validation tests in view of planned flight onboard the Chinese spacelab TG-2 scheduled for 2015.