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Quark-Model Predictions for Axial Charges of Nucleon and N* Resonances
We have investigated the axial charges of the nucleon and N ∗ resonances in a relativistic framework. Besides the axial charge of the nucleon, first predictions are reported for the axial charges of all well-established N ∗ resonances below∼1.9 GeV as produced by the relativistic constituent quark models relying on Goldstone- boson-exchange and one-gluon-exchange hyperfine interactions. The results for the axial charge of the nucleon are found close to experiment but with somewhat smaller values, similar to modern findings from quantum chromodynamics on the lattice. The predictions of the axial charges of the negative-parity N ∗ (1535) and N ∗ (1650) resonances also agree with what has most recently become available from lattice calculations. We discuss the roles of the axial charges of the N ∗ resonances for the phenomenon of chiral-symmetry restoration possibly occurring in the higher hadron spectra.
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Effective Quark-Quark Interaction in Heavy Baryons
We report results from a study of heavy-baryon spectroscopy within a relativistic constituent- quark model, whose hyperfine interaction is based on Goldstone-boson-exchange dynamics. While for light-flavor constituent quarks it is now commonly accepted that the effective quark-quark interaction is (predominantly) furnished by Goldstone-boson exchange - due to spontaneous chiral-symmetry breaking of quantum chromodynamics at low energies - there is currently still much speculation about the light-heavy and heavy-heavy quark-quark interactions. With the increasing amount of experimental data on heavy-baryon spectroscopy these issues might soon be settled. Here, we show, how the relativistic constituent-quark model with Goldstone-boson-exchange hyperfine interactions can be extended to charm and bottom baryons. It is found that the same model that has previously been successful in reproducing the light and strange baryon spectra is also in line with the existing phenomenological data on heavy-baryon spectroscopy. An analogous model with one-gluon-exchange hyperfine interactions for light-heavy flavors does not achieve a similarly good performance.
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Universal Constituent-Quark Model for Baryons
We present a relativistic constituent-quark model that covers all known baryons from the nucleon up to bbb. The corresponding invariant mass operator includes a linear connement and a hyperne interaction based on eective degrees of freedom. The model provides for a unied description of practically all baryon spectra in good agreement with present phenomenology and it can tentatively be employed for the relativistic treatment of all kinds of baryon reactions. Predictions of states still missing in the phenomenological data base, especially in the lesser explored heavy-avor sectors of charm and bottom baryons, should be important especially for future experiments in these areas.
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Baryon axial charges
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Unified model for light- and heavy-flavor baryon resonances
119691200
Spectroscopy of Baryons as Relativistic Three-Quark Systems
We present results from a study of baryon spectral properties within a relativistic constituent-quark model. In particular, we demonstrate the performance of a universal quark model for all light-, strange-, and heavy-flavor baryons with regard to their spectroscopy. Thereby we produce insights into the effective interaction between constituent quarks of the various flavors up, down, strange, charm, and bottom. The relativistically invariant mass spectra are obtained by two different methods for calculating the microscopic three-quark systems: a stochastic variational method, solving the eigenvalue problem of the invariant mass operator expressed by differential equations, and a Faddeev integral-equation method, adapted to treating long-range interactions, such as the quark confinement. The corresponding results agree very well, generally within a few percents. Taking into account relativistic effects through Poincaré invariance of the mass operator, or equivalently of the Hamiltonian, turns out to be of utmost importance.
119103645
New decay modes of gravitino dark matter
We consider the three-body decays of gravitino dark matter in supersymmetric scenarios with bilinear R-parity violation. In particular, gravitino decays into lW* (lff{sup '}) and {nu}Z* ({nu}ff) are examined for gravitino masses below M{sub W}. After computing the gravitino decay rates into these three-body final states and studying their dependence on supersymmetric parameters, we find that these new decay modes are often more important than the two-body decay, into a photon and a neutrino, considered in previous works. Consequently, the gravitino lifetime and its branching ratios are substantially modified, with important implications for the indirect detection of gravitino dark matter.
119438711
Unification in intersecting brane models
We propose a unification scenario for supersymmetric intersecting brane models. The quarks and leptons are embedded into adjoint representations of $SO(32)$, which are obtained by type I string and broken by compactification on orbifolds. Its single unified gauge coupling can give rise to different gauge couplings below the unification scale, due to effects of magnetic fluxes. The crucial mechanism is brane recombination preserving supersymmetry.
15628636
Multiple scalar particle decays and perturbation generation
We study the evolution of the universe which contains multiple non-relativistic scalar fields decaying into both radiation and pressureless matter. We present a powerful analytic formalism for calculating the matter and radiation curvature perturbations, and find that our analytic estimates agree with full numerical results within an error of less than one per cent. Also we discuss the isocurvature perturbation of matter and radiation components, which may be detected by near future cosmological observations, and point out that it crucially depends on the branching ratio of the decay rate of the scalar fields and that it is hard to make any model independent predictions.
118615227
Analysis of techni-dilaton as a dark matter candidate
A bstractThe almost conformal dynamics of walking technicolor (TC) implies the existence of the approximate scale invariance, which breaks down spontaneously by the condensation of anti-techni and techni-fermions. According to the Goldstone theorem, a spinless, parity-even particle, called techni-dilaton (TD), then emerges at low energy. If TC exhibits an extreme walking, TD mass, MTD, is parametrically much smaller than that of techni-fermions (~1 TeV), while its decay constant is comparable to the cutoff scale of walking TC. We analyze the light, decoupled TD as a dark matter candidate and study cosmological productions of TD, both thermal and non-thermal, in the early Universe. The thermal population is governed dominantly by single TD production processes involving vertices breaking the scale symmetry, while the non-thermal population is by the vacuum misalignment and is accumulated via harmonic and coherent oscillations of misaligned classical TD fields. The non-thermal population turns out to be dominant and large enough to explain the abundance of presently observed dark matter, while the thermal population is highly suppressed due to the large TD decay constant. Several cosmological and astrophysical limits on the light, decoupled TD are examined to find that the mass MTD is constrained to be in a range, 0.01eV ≲ MTD ≲ 500 eV. From the combined constraints on cosmological productions and astrophysical observations, we find that the light, decoupled TD can be a good dark matter candidate with the mass around a few hundreds of eV for typical models of (extreme) walking TC. We finally mention possible designated experiments to detect the TD dark matter.
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Axino cold dark matter revisited
A bstractAxino arises in supersymmetric versions of axion models and is a natural candidate for cold or warm dark matter. Here we revisit axino dark matter produced thermally and non-thermally in light of recent developments. First we discuss the definition of axino relative to low energy axion one for several KSVZ and DFSZ models of the axion. Then we review and refine the computation of the dominant QCD production in order to avoid unphysical cross-sections and, depending on the model, to include production via SU(2) and U(1) interactions and Yukawa couplings.