118513906
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.
120650932
Electromagnetic and Axial Form Factors of Octet and Decuplet Baryons
We report from a study of the elastic electromagnetic and axial form factors of all lowest baryon states with flavors up, down, and strange along relativistic constituent-quark models. We consider the baryons as relativistic bound states of three constituent quarks and solve the eigenvalue problem of the invariant mass operator. The corresponding eigenstates are employed to calculate manifestly covariant form factors within the point form of Poincaré-invariant quantum mechanics. The electromagnetic and axial current operators are constructed along the spectator model in point-form relativistic dynamics. We have thus obtained covariant predictions for the electroweak form factors, for momentum transfers up to Q2 ~ 4 GeV2, as well as the electric radii, magnetic moments, and axial charges. The theoretical results in general agree very well with existing phenomenological data. In cases, where no experimental information is yet available, the results are well compatible with data from lattice quantum chromodynamics.
118998046
Flavor analysis of nucleon electromagnetic form factors
We have performed an evaluation of the individual up- and down-flavor contributions to the nucleon electromagnetic form factors within a relativistic constituent-quark model. It is found that the theoretical parameter-free predictions agree surprisingly well with recent experimental data from a flavor decomposition of the proton and neutron electromagnetic form factors for momentum transfers up to $Q^2\sim\;$3.5 GeV$^2$. It means that in this regime three-quark valence degrees of freedom dominate and other contributions, such as explicit mesonic effects, can at most play a minor role.
125184952
Baryon axial charges
119181837
Axial charges of the nucleon and N* resonances
The axial charges of the nucleon and the well-established N * resonances are studied within a consistent framework. For the first time the axial charges of the N * resonances are produced for the relativistic constituent quark model. The axial charge of the nucleon is predicted close to experiment, and the ones of N * (1535) and N * (1650), the only cases where such a comparison is possible, agree well with results from quantum chromodynamics on the lattice that have recently become available. The relevance of the magnitudes of the N * axial charges for the low-energy behavior of quantum chromodynamics is discussed.
126277985
Relativistic quark-model spectroscopy of light and heavy baryons
We report results from a study of lightand heavy-baryon spectra within a relativistic constituent quark model that relies on a universal dynamics for baryons of all flavor contents. The (linear) confinement is taken according to the string tension of quantum chromodynamics and the (flavordependent) hyperfine interaction is derived from an effective Lagrangian resulting from chiralsymmetry breaking. Here, we specifically show results for all baryons that are included in the phenomenological data base of the Particle Data Group with at least three-star status. In general, the spectra are reproduced in good agreement with experiment for both ground and excited states.
46649104
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.
119201914
Extended gauge symmetries in F-theory
We study gauge symmetry in F-theory in light of global aspects. For this, we consider not only a simple (local) group, but also a semi-simple group with Abelian factors. Once we specify the complete gauge group by decomposing the discriminant, analogous to arranging 7-branes, we can derive the matter contents, their localization and the relation to enhanced groups. Global constraints coming from Calabi-Yau conditions and anomaly cancellations imply a unified group. The semisiple group shows explicit formation of matter curves and nontriviality of its embedding into exceptional group. Also the dual heterotic string vacua with line bundles provide a guide on the unification.
119256844
Effective interactions of axion supermultiplet and thermal production of axino dark matter
We discuss the effective interactions of axion supermultiplet, which might be important for analyzing the cosmological aspect of supersymmetric axion model. Related to axino cosmology, it is stressed that three seemingly similar but basically different quantities, the Wilsonian axino-gluino-gluon coupling, the 1PI axino-gluino-gluon amplitude, and the PQ anomaly coefficient, should be carefully distinguished from each other for correct analysis of the thermal production of axinos in the early Universe. It is then noticed that the 1PI axino-gluino-gluon amplitude at energy scale p in the range MΦ < p < vPQ is suppressed by MΦ2/p2 in addition to the well-known suppression by p/16π2vPQ, where MΦ is the mass of the heaviest PQ-charged and gauge-charged matter supermultiplet in the model, which can be well below the PQ scale vPQ. As a result, axino production at temperature T > MΦ is dominated by the production by matter supermultiplet, not by the production by gauge supermultiplet. Still the axino production rate is greatly reduced if MΦ ≪ vPQ, which would make the subsequent cosmology significantly altered. This would be most notable in the supersymmetric DFSZ model in which MΦ corresponds to the Higgsino mass which is around the weak scale, however a similar reduction is possible in the KSVZ model also. We evaluate the relic axino density for both the DFSZ and KSVZ models while including the axino production in the processes involving the heaviest PQ-charged and gauge-charged matter supermultiplet.
118521026
Large non-Gaussianity from two-component hybrid inflation
We study the generation of non-Gaussianity in models of hybrid inflation with two inflaton fields, (2-brid inflation). We analyse the region in the parameter and the initial condition space where a large non-Gaussianity may be generated during slow-roll inflation which is generally characterised by a large fNL, τNL and a small gNL. For certain parameter values we can satisfy τNL >> fNL2. The bispectrum is of the local type but may have a significant scale dependence. We show that the loop corrections to the power spectrum and bispectrum are suppressed during inflation, if one assume that the fields follow a classical background trajectory. We also include the effect of the waterfall field, which can lead to a significant change in the observables after the waterfall field is destabilised, depending on the couplings between the waterfall and inflaton fields.
119046581
Dynkin diagram strategy for orbifolding with Wilson lines
Abstract A simple method for breaking gauge groups by orbifolding is presented. We extend the method of Kac and Peterson to include Wilson lines. The complete classification of the gauge group breaking, e.g., from heterotic string, is now possible. From this Dynkin diagram technique, one can easily visualize the origin and the symmetry pattern of the surviving gauge group.