119280142
Resolving the puzzling decay patterns of charged $Z_c$ and $Z_b$ states
We investigate the ratio of the branching fractions of the molecular candidates decaying into the ground and radially excited states within the quark interchange model. Our numerical results suggest that these molecular candidates are more likely to decay into the radially excited states than into ground states. Especially, the ratio $\Gamma[Z_c(4430)\to \pi\psi(2S)]$/$\Gamma[Z_c(4430)\to \pi J/\psi]\sim 9.8$ is close to the experimental measurement, which supports the interpretation of $Z_c(4430)$ as the $\bar{D}D^*(2S)$ molecular state. The ratios of the branching fractions of $Z_b(10610)$ and $Z_b(10650)$ to $\pi\Upsilon(2S, 3S)$ and $\pi\Upsilon(1S)$ agrees very well with Belle's measurement. We also predict the similar ratios for $Z_c(3900)$, $Z_c(4020)$, $R_{Z_c(3900)}$$\approx$1.3 and $R_{Z_c(4020)}$$\approx$$4.7$. Hopefully the $\pi\psi(2S)$ mode, and ratios $R_{Z_c(3900)}$ and $R_{Z_c(4020)}$ will be measured by the BESIII and Belle collaborations in the near future, which shall be very helpful to understand the underlying dynamics of these exotic states.
28437592
A possible global group structure for exotic states
Based on the fact that the long expected pentaquark which possesses the exotic quantum numbers of $$B=1$$B=1 and $$S=1$$S=1 was not experimentally found, although exotic states of $$XYZ$$XYZ have been observed recently, we conjecture that the heavy flavors may play an important role in stabilizing the hadronic structures beyond the traditional $$q\bar{q}$$qq¯ and $$qqq$$qqq composites.
119155043
Effects of hadronic loops on the direct CP violation of $B_c$
It is well-known that the final state interaction plays an important role in the decays of B meson. The contribution of the final state interaction, which is supposed to be long-distance effects, to the concerned processes can interfere with that of the short-distance effects produced via the tree and/or loop diagrams at quark-gluon level. The interference may provide a source for the direct CP violation A{sub CP} in the process B{sub c}{sup +}{yields}D{sup 0}{pi}{sup +}. We find that a typical value of A{sub CP} when the final state interaction effect is taken into account can be about -22% which is different from that without the final state interaction effect. Therefore, when we extract information on CP violation from the data which will be available at the Large Hadron Collider beauty experiment (LHCb) and the new experiments in B factories, the contribution from the final state interaction must be included. This study may be crucial for searching new physics in the future.
31555802
Mixing of Pentaquark and Molecular States
There are experimental evidences for the existence of narrow states Θ+ and Θc with the same quantum numbers of uudds̄ and uuddc̄ pentaquarks and also NK(∗) and ND(∗) molecular states. Their masses deviate from many theoretical estimates of the pure pentaquark and molecular states. In this work we study the possibility that the observed Θ+ and Θc are mixtures of pure pentaquark and molecular states. The mixing parameters are in general related to non-perturbative QCD which are not calculable at present. We determine them by fitting data from known states and then generalize the mechanism to Θb to predict its mass and width. The mixing mechanism can also naturally explain the narrow width for Θ+ and Θc through destructive interferences, even if the pure pentaquark and molecular states have much larger decay widths. We also briefly discuss the properties of the partner eigenstates of Θ+ and Θc and the possibility of experimentally observe them. Moreover, probable consequences of multi-state mixing are also addressed.
119249008
Does the enhancement observed in $\gamma\gamma\to D\bar{D}$ contain two P-wave higher charmonia?
We solve a new puzzle raised by the observation of an enhancement structure Z(3930) in $\gamma\gamma\to D\bar{D}$. If categorizing Z(3930) as χc2(2P), as suggested by Belle and BaBar, we must explain why χc0(2P) dominantly decaying into $D\bar{D}$ is missing in the $D\bar{D}$ invariant mass spectrum. In this work, we propose that the Z(3930) enhancement structure may contain two P-wave higher charmonia χc0(2P) and χc2(2P). We show that this assumption is supported by our analysis of the $D\bar{D}$ invariant mass spectrum and cosθ∗ distribution of $\gamma\gamma\to D\bar{D}$. This observation would not only provide valuable information of two P-wave higher charmonia χc0(2P) and χc2(2P), but also serve as the crucial test of our novel proposal to the observed enhancement structure Z(3930), especially at the forthcoming BelleII and the approved SuperB.
51398146
Some properties of the newly observed X(1835) state at BES
Recently the BES collaboration has announced the observation of a resonant state in the π+π-η’ spectrum in J/ψ→γπ+π-η’ decay. Fitting the data with a 0-+ state, the mass is determined to be 1833.7 MeV with 7.7σ statistic significance. This state is consistent with the one extracted from previously reported pp̄ threshold enhancement data in J/ψ→γpp̄. We study the properties of this state using QCD anomaly and QCD sum rules, assuming X(1835) to be a pseudoscalar, and we show that it is consistent with the data. We find that this state has a sizeable matrix element $\langle0|G\widetilde{G}|G_{\text{p}}\rangle$, leading to branching ratios of (2.61–7.37)×10-3 and (2.21–10.61)×10-2 for J/ψ→γGp and for Gp→π+π-η′, respectively. Combining the calculated branching ratio of J/ψ→γGp and data on threshold enhancement in J/ψ→γpp̄, we determine the coupling for the Gp–p–p̄ interaction. We finally study the branching ratios of the other J/ψ→γ+three mesons decay modes. We find that J/ψ→γGp→γ(π+π-η,KKπ0) can provide useful tests for the mechanism proposed.
118404193
Relativistic redshifts in quasar broad lines
The broad emission lines commonly seen in quasar spectra have velocity widths of a few percent of the speed of light, so special- and general-relativistic effects have a significant influence on the line profile. We have determined the redshift of the broad Hβ line in the quasar rest frame (determined from the core component of the [O III] line) for over 20,000 quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7 quasar catalog. The mean redshift as a function of line width is approximately consistent with the relativistic redshift that is expected if the line originates in a randomly oriented Keplerian disk that is obscured when the inclination of the disk to the line of sight exceeds ~30°-45°, consistent with simple active galactic nucleus unification schemes. This result also implies that the net line-of-sight inflow/outflow velocities in the broad-line region are much less than the Keplerian velocity when averaged over a large sample of quasars with a given line width.
119206485
Mapping the three-dimensional multi-band extinction and diffuse interstellar bands in the Milky Way with LAMOST
With modern large scale spectroscopic surveys, such as the SDSS and LSS-GAC, Galactic astronomy has entered the era of millions of stellar spectra. Taking advantage of the huge spectroscopic database, we propose to use a "standard pair" technique to a) Estimate multi-band extinction towards sightlines of millions of stars; b) Detect and measure the diffuse interstellar bands in hundreds of thousands SDSS and LAMOST low-resolution spectra; c) Search for extremely faint emission line nebulae in the Galaxy; and d) Perform photometric calibration for wide field imaging surveys. In this contribution, we present some results of applying this technique to the SDSS data, and report preliminary results from the LAMOST data.
118435421
Improved Estimates of The $B_{(s)}\to V V$ Decays in Perturbative QCD Approach
We reexamine the branching ratios, $CP$-asymmetries, and other observables in a large number of $B_q\to VV(q=u,d,s)$ decays in the perturbative QCD (PQCD) approach, where $V$ denotes a light vector meson $(\rho, K^*, \omega, \phi)$. The essential difference between this work and the earlier similar works is of parametric origin and in the estimates of the power corrections related to the ratio $r_i^2=m_{V_i}^2/m_B^2(i=2,3)$ ($m_V$ and $m_B$ denote the masses of the vector and $B$ meson, respectively). In particular, we use up-to-date distribution amplitudes for the final state mesons and keep the terms proportional to the ratio $r_i^2$ in our calculations. Our updated calculations are in agreement with the experimental data, except for a limited number of decays which we discuss. We emphasize that the penguin annihilation and the hard-scattering emission contributions are essential to understand the polarization anomaly, such as in the $B\to \phi K^*$ and $B_s \to \phi\phi$ decay modes. We also compare our results with those obtained in the QCD factorization (QCDF) approach and comment on the similarities and differences, which can be used to discriminate between these approaches in future experiments.
118431275
IDV observations & study of the quasar 0917+624
We carried out intra-day variability (IDV) observations from August 2005 to January 2010 with the Urumqi 25 m radio telescope for a dozen IDV sources including the quasar 0917+624. This target exhibited pronounced centimeter-band, intra-day variability during the 1980s–1990s, but its strong IDV phase ceased in 2000. The source showed no IDV in the majority of the Urumqi observing sessions, although weak IDV activity was detected in some. Multifrequency UMRAO data for 0917+624 show that the spectral index is steeper during the weak and non-IDV phases than during the strong IDV phase, supporting the idea that the size of the scintillating component may be enlarged in the weak/non IDV phases.
119117794
Charmless hadronic $B \to (f_1(1285),f_1(1420)) P$ decays in the perturbative QCD approach
We study 20 charmless hadronic $B \to f_1 P$ decays in the perturbative QCD(pQCD) formalism with $f_1$ representing axial-vector mesons $f_1(1285)$ and $f_1(1420)$ that result from a mixing of quark-flavor $f_{1q}$ and $f_{1s}$ states with the angle $\phi_{f_1}$. The estimations of branching ratios and CP asymmetries of the considered $B \to f_1 P$ decays are presented in the pQCD approach with $\phi_{f_1} \sim 24^\circ$ from recently measured $B_{d/s} \to J/\psi f_1(1285)$ decays. It is found that (a) the tree(penguin) dominant $B^+ \to f_1 \pi^+(K^+)$ decays with large branching ratios[${\cal O}(10^{-6})$] and large direct CP violations(around 14% $\sim$ 28% in magnitude) simultaneously are believed to be clearly measurable at the LHCb and Belle II experiments; (b) the $B_d \to f_1 K_S^0$ and $B_s \to f_1 (\eta, \eta^{\prime})$ decays with nearly pure penguin contributions and safely negligible tree pollution also have large decay rates in the order of $10^{-6} \sim 10^{-5}$, which can be confronted with the experimental measurements in the near future; (c) as the alternative channels, the $B^+ \to f_1 (\pi^+, K^+)$ and $B_d \to f_1 K_S^0$ decays have the supplementary power in providing more effective constraints on the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa weak phases $\alpha$, $\gamma$, and $\beta$ correspondingly, which are explicitly analyzed through the large decay rates and the direct and mixing-induced CP asymmetries in the pQCD approach and are expected to be stringently examined by the measurements with high precision. The complete abstraction can be found in the paper.